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Name: Neurodharma
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Author: Rick Hanson

Rick Hanson

New Science, Ancient Wisdom, and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness

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What’s in it for me? Learn the modern science and ancient wisdom of true happiness

What’s your goal in life? Maybe it’s to achieve the job of your dreams, start a family, or travel the world. Perhaps it’s a combination of all three. But for many of us, happiness is a goal in itself.

Throughout history, people across different cultures and religious and spiritual traditions have traveled miles along dusty plains and climbed the steepest mountains to reach enlightenment – that is, the highest peak of human possibility. These people sought to become as wise, strong, loving, and happy as they could be. But the path there wasn’t always easy.

In these blinks, we’ll take a look at how to reach true happiness and fulfillment by embarking on a seven-step journey of awakening.

Using author Rick Hanson’s neurodharma approach – which fuses modern neuroscience with teachings from the Theravada Buddhist tradition – we’ll look at practices for becoming more mindful, balanced, and connected to the world.

You’ll also learn

why meditation affects the brain positively;
how to steady your mind and concentrate better; and
practices for healing past pain.

There are seven ways of being that form the basis of true awakening.

If you’ve ever hiked up a mountain, you know how tough it can be. Not only is it physically exhausting, there are also obstacles and challenges along your way to the top.

Well, that’s what it’s like when achieving happiness, wisdom, and strength – qualities the author refers to as the “heights of human potential.”

We may all want to reach these heights – the metaphorical top of the mountain – but to get there, we have to tread a path of awakening first.

Here’s the key message: There are seven ways of being that form the basis of true awakening.

Many religious or spiritual traditions have their own versions of how to climb the mountain to happiness. But all of them seem to follow the same seven steps – steadiness, lovingness, fullness, wholeness, nowness, allness, and timelessness. Mastering these seven ways of being leads to enlightenment – otherwise known as full awakening.

Developing a greater sense of fullness, wholeness, or any other aspect of awakening involves three kinds of practice: Let be, let go and let in. Let’s take a look at these one by one.

First up, let be.

When you start on your path to enlightenment, you may notice a number of thoughts and emotions rising within you. Learning to let be means accepting these feelings as they come, and allowing yourself to feel them wholeheartedly.

Next up is let go, which means releasing what is painful or harmful. This can take the form of easing tension in your body, venting negative thoughts, or distancing yourself from desires that hurt you or others.

Last is let in. Once you’ve removed any negative thoughts or emotions, you can replace them with something positive. For instance, you could focus on developing new skills if you’ve not done well on a project, or on becoming more grateful and resilient after receiving negative feedback.

Think of it this way: If your mind is like a garden, you can pull out the weeds and plant flowers in their place.

So developing the seven ways of being requires that you experience feelings openly, accept them, and let them be. When you do this, you train yourself to be more mindful, loving, and content.

In the following blinks, we’ll take a look at how to practice these seven steps to enlightenment in our everyday lives. But first, let’s take a look at the neuroscience behind awakening, and how we can rewire our brains to improve our well-being.

Changing our neural activity can enhance our psychological well-being.

Have you ever wondered why we can taste coffee? How we remember where we left our keys? What about why we feel so incredibly sad after a breakup?

Well, it all boils down to our nervous system – and its headquarters, the brain. Our every sensation, every thought, and every desire depend on neural activity.

The first step toward awakening is steadying the mind, which requires us to concentrate while meditating.

When the author first began to meditate, he didn’t take things that seriously.

He was just finishing his college degree, and meditation happened to be a growing trend. After class, he would sit in the Southern California hills with his long hair and bamboo flute, trying to look like he was meditating.

Living with a warm heart means being compassionate to yourself and others.

In the early 2000s, the author attended a conference at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California. He went to hear the Dalai Lama speak.

While the Dalai Lama said a number of insightful things, the author mostly remembers his bodyguard. Throughout the conference, he stood at ease like a dancer, smiling at everyone in the room. Even though he was there to defend the Dalai Lama – and was trained to use force if necessary – there was no sense of threat from him. Instead, he radiated happiness and love.

We can heal our suffering by learning the practice of resting in fullness.

The author realized early on in his career that unhappiness is common, and it can take many forms. Some people live their lives feeling the intense pain of trauma, while others feel subtly unfulfilled.

These experiences are what Buddha himself called suffering – which he named as the First Noble Truth of human existence.

Strengthening neural factors can help us foster a sense of wholeness and live in the now.

What does it mean to feel truly whole? And can anyone ever achieve this feeling?

Wholeness, the fourth step to awakening, is reached by accepting yourself fully – the good and the bad – and doing this despite the mind’s natural tendencies toward negativity!

Well-being increases when we decrease our sense of self and instead open into allness.

If someone were to ask you what is meant by a “self,” what would you say?

Many people understand the word self to describe the essence of a human being – an intangible something that distinguishes one person from the next. Other words related to the self include ego, identity, I, and me.

Finding Nibbana, or true happiness, means accepting impermanence. 

The author was once talking with the teacher Steve Armstrong, who had trained as a monk in Asia. He was curious to learn more about nibbana – the ultimate spiritual goal in Buddhism.

Nibbana is sublime happiness and liberation from suffering, and the author wanted to know what it felt like to reach that point.

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Neurodharma (2020) offers a road map for achieving true happiness and fulfillment. Drawing on the ancient practices of Buddhism and modern neuroscience, author Rick Hanson outlines seven ways of being that can help you be more calm, compassionate, and present in the moment. He also gives practical tips and strategies for how to use meditation to improve overall well-being and effectiveness.

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Neurodharma is the truth of the mind grounded in the truth of the body.

—Rick Hanson

Wer Neurodharma lesen sollte

Anyone wanting to cultivate inner peace and tranquility
Meditators seeking to expand their practice
People curious about the neurology behind our thoughts and emotions

Über den Autor

Dr. Rick Hanson is a psychologist and meditation teacher. He’s also the Senior Fellow at the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley and the founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom. A New York Times best-selling author, his other books include Buddha’s Brain (2009), Hardwiring Happiness (2014), and Resilient (2018).

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