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Ten Percent Happier · November 10, 2024 · 62m
The Social Brain
Richie Davidson on the neuroscience of wellbeing. His four pillars: awareness, connection, insight, purpose. Well-being is a skill — like playing piano — that can be trained. And the brain physically changes with practice.
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Davidson: his lab showed that 8 weeks of meditation training increases gray matter in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, strengthens connections in the default mode network, and reduces amygdala reactivity. The brain is literally resculpted by practice.
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