Growth Through Curiosity
Judson explores the connection between anxiety and the brain's default mode network, highlighting how worrying activates certain brain regions. He emphasizes the power of curiosity in transforming feelings of contraction into opportunities for growth. By practicing self-kindness and mindfulness, anyone can learn to quiet their mind and embrace new experiences.In this clip
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Unwind Anxiety: Practical Tools using Neuroscience, Habit and Behavioral Change, With Judson Brewer
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Would practicing breath, metacognition, reappraisal, savoring, connectedness, and curiosity be an optimal protocol that interrupts stress-driven reactivity and self-criticism, shifting the nervous system into curiosity and self-compassion? In doing so, does it create the biological and psychological conditions necessary for fostering self-agency and lasting behavior change?
Could I say that the neocortex quiets down during meditation, or is it better to say it slows down?