Hardwiring Happiness

In brief introduction, for more than four decades, I've helped thousands of people create healthier, happier, more productive lives using a variety of methods to include, of course, EFT, thought field therapy, hypnosis, NLP, and an array of other methods.

To learn more about our work, visit us at stressreliefradio.com. Dr. Rick Hansen, author of Hardwiring Happiness, tells us, the brain is like Velcro for negative experiences and Teflon for positive ones.

The brain is like Velcro for negative experiences and Teflon for positive ones.

If we think about that for a moment, let's say a dozen wonderful things happen in your day this day, but there was just one problem experience, one offhand comment you might have made in a meeting or to a simple stranger, a comment you later regretted.

He's an author.

He wrote a book, Hardwiring Happiness, Neurodharma.

I've talked about him a lot on the podcast before.

But I really was listening in through a course I'm doing with him and talking about the different stages of change.

And hopefully we do because change just keeps on happening and hopefully change keeps happening.

So there's that kind of not really understanding the patterns behind it, I guess we'd call that stage, that first stage.

But then perhaps over time, we listen to podcasts, we read books, we learn from other people that are on a journey of change and we start to notice the patterns.

So we kind of start to, oh yeah, there is a pattern here.

This is a beautiful work of Dr. Rick Hanson.

He wrote a book called Hardwiring Happiness, and another book called Resilience.

And in it, he describes in great detail how the human species, or all species really, are trying physiologically, to survive.

Which means that they have to detect threat.

Well, welcome back to Inside Personal Growth.

On the other end of the phone there, and I'm gonna lean down here, folks, because this isn't the book we're talking about, but this is the man we're talking about, Rick Hanson, PhD.

Uh, one of his books is Hardwiring Happiness.

Matter of fact, his assistant sent me a whole box of books, but not Making Great Relationships, which is what we're gonna talk about today, so [laughs]

Oh, no.

But, uh-

It's okay

... see if I can find it