This course is taught by Dr. Rick Hanson, a pioneering neuropsychologist who has been able to teach students how to naturally change the way that their minds work.

Throughout this program, you’ll explore how you can activate processes inside your brain in order to accelerate your personal transformation.

You’ll understand how thoughts affect your brain physically, how to harness the power of positive thoughts and reverse the effects of stress and pain, and how to create a life filled with joy rather than suffering.

Learn Meditative Practices That Will Transform Your Mind and Your Life

• Discover How to Steady and Quiet Your Mind to Allow Focus and Concentration
• Understand the Causes of Suffering So You Can Find Joy and Peace
• Implement Equanimity in All of Your Daily Activities
• Uncover Your True Self and Enhance Your Life with Positivity

Use Your Brain’s Neuroplasticity to Transform Yourself in a Profound Way
This course focuses on the best of modern science and ancient Buddhist teachings to give you the tools you need to evolve your mind.

In addition to learning about how the brain works, you’ll also tackle how to take advantage of your brain’s neuroplasticity to change the way that your thoughts affect your life.

As you move through this course, you’ll encounter a variety of exercises and guided practices that will allow you to meditate in ways that will truly transform your mind for the better.

You’ll practice mindfulness, weave positive thoughts and emotions into the fabric of your brain, and strengthen your concentration and focus.

Contents and Overview
This course begins with an introduction to concentrating the mind so you can understand what happens in your brain when you focus.

You’ll then move into your first guided meditation. This exercise will help you steady and quiet the mind, before diving into what occurs in the awakened mind and nirvana.

Dr. Hanson then describes the causes of suffering so you can comprehend how your reactions and your brain can actually create unnecessary suffering.

To move beyond suffering and into a state of peace, you’ll tackle the four components of equanimity before diving into several guided exercises designed to help you focus on your personal transformation.

In order to change, you’ll need to open yourself up to a growing sense of serenity and contentment every day, so you’ll discover how to do that with a sense of equanimity as your foundation.  

The final section of this course focuses on discovering what the “self” is. Through a combination of lectures and exercises, you’ll explore what’s existent and nonexistent in your apparent self.

You’ll learn how to take life less personally and how to be a witness of your life rather than a prisoner.

By the time you complete this course, you’ll have a variety of practical tools that you can use daily to positively change your brain’s function and enhance your life in various ways.  

You’ll be able to use the best that modern science and ancient Buddhist teachings have to offer in order to release fear and negativity and create a life that’s less stressful and more joyful