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Ten Percent Happier · March 15, 2024 · 65m
The Science of Changing Your Mind
Judson Brewer on how craving drives behavior and how mindfulness interrupts it. Anxiety is a habit loop — trigger, behavior, reward — and you can break it by replacing the reward with curiosity. The neuroscience of 'urge surfing.'
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Brewer: mindfulness isn't relaxation — it's training the brain to recognize habit loops in real time. When you notice a craving as it arises (rather than after you've acted on it), you create a choice point that didn't exist before.
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Brewer: the hedonic treadmill is driven by reward-based learning. Each pleasurable experience trains the brain to expect and seek more. Mindfulness interrupts the loop by making the treadmill visible.
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