The Enlightened Brain Online Course

Meditation Meets Neuroscience—Practical Tools to Reshape Your Brain for Awakening

Attending the Live Session

The Enlightened Brain Live Session Date

LIVE interactive video session with Rick Hanson, April 16, 2013, 8–9:00 pm Eastern Time (GMT -4)

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Can’t make a live session? Don’t worry! Recordings from live sessions will be available for download by 7 pm Eastern Time within two business days after the live session concludes.

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Course objectives:

• Explain how to tailor psychological growth and spiritual practice to your unique neurophysiology.
• Summarize how to defeat the negativity bias of your brain by internalizing key resources.
• Practice pairing positive experiences with negative material to soothe and heal old pain.
• Apply techniques to activate the neural foundations of mindfulness.
• Practice strengthening the five factors of concentration and deep meditative absorption.
• Utilize exercises to build neural shock absorbers for stable inner peace in a turbulent world.

We are inspired by the living example of great teachers, who have both penetrating insight and a loving heart. “With modern neuroscience, we’re now beginning to understand the brain processes that support these wonderful qualities of mind,” explains Dr. Rick Hanson. With The Enlightened Brain online course, this pioneering neuropsychologist explores how you can activate these same processes inside your own brain to accelerate your own transformation.

What You Will Receive:

Self-Directed Neuroplasticity—How Our Mind Shapes Our Brain

Your thoughts and feelings continually sculpt your brain—for better or worse. As Dr. Hanson teaches, you can use the power of self-directed neuroplasticity to take control of the evolutionary tendency of your brain to react to life with fear, frustration, and heartache—and return your brain to its natural state of calm, contentment, and caring. With simple and potent practices, he reveals how you can weave positive thoughts and emotions into the fabric of your brain, allowing you to cultivate the qualities of mindfulness, virtue, and wisdom for your own path of awakening.

“This new science gives us unprecedented tools to individualize psychological growth and spiritual practice,” says Dr. Hanson. You’ll learn about your unique profile of attention and which methods best strengthen your focus and concentration. You’ll also learn how to approach life with equanimity and relax the focus on me, myself, and I. Featuring more than nine hours of audio and video instruction and guided meditations plus a live video session with Dr. Hanson, The Enlightened Brain is filled with practical tools for strengthening the neural circuitry of spacious awareness, calm in the midst of stress, contemplative absorption, resilience, and lasting happiness.

This six-week course, beginning March 18, 2013, also includes a live video Q&A session with Dr. Hanson, which will take place from 8–9:00 pm ET (GMT -4) on April 16, 2013.

HIGHLIGHTS

What You’ll Experience with The Enlightened Brain

Session One: Self-Directed Neuroplasticity
Course materials available Monday, March 18, 2013

Session Two: Taking in the Good
Course materials available Monday, March 25, 2013

Session Three: The Neuroscience of Mindfulness
Course materials available Monday, April 1, 2013

Session Four: Concentrating the Mind
Course materials available Monday, April 8, 2013

Session Five: Equanimity
Course materials available Monday, April 15, 2013

LIVE SESSION with Rick Hanson, Tuesday, April 16, 2013, 8–9:00 pm ET (GMT -4)

Session Six: Beyond the Self
Course materials available Monday, April 22, 2013