Fleet MaullThe Entrepreneur’s Zen Master

Grow the Good & Build Strong Relationships w Rick Hanson PhD at the Rewiring Your Brain World Summit

19 Jun 2023 · 1 min

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This is a talk (part of the Rewiring Your Brain World Summit) presenting Rick Hanson PhD’s HEAL framework for promoting lasting positive change by enriching and absorbing positive experiences so they produce durable neural changes. The speaker explains how staying with a positive experience—feeling it in the body, focusing on its rewarding aspects, and deliberately receiving it—helps convert transient neural activation into lasting changes.

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How do we promote that lasting change? So, as you know, I have the HEAL framework H E A L as an acronym for. Once you're having the experience of what you want to grow, you can E for enrich and A for absorb it. And in the process of that, usually over the course of a single breath, sometimes longer, you really can increase the degree to which that experience as a passing pattern of neural activation, can leave lasting changes behind in your nervous system. By staying with it for a breath or longer, feeling it in your body, focusing on what's rewarding about it, having a sense of giving over to it, receiving it into yourself, and doing that deliberately.