Rick Hanson on Buddha’s Brain

Conscious Media Network with Regina Meredith

Neurophysiologist Rick Hanson, co-author of Buddha’s Brain, tells us that neuroscience can help us understand what’s happening in a brain when it is in a desired state so that we can work backward and figure out how to use the mind—not drugs—to stimulate and strengthen the underlying neural states that promote that mental state.

Hanson has written and taught extensively about the essential inner skills of personal well being, psychological growth and contemplative practice, as well as about relationships, family life and raising children.