FLOURISH - A Wandering Mind is an Unhappy Mind (The DMN #1)
MINDRAMP PODCAST - FLOURISH AS YOU AGE
English - May 11, 2024 17:00 - 9 minutes - 6.8 MBMental Health Health & Fitness Fitness aging brain health wellness dementia memory longevity Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: FLOURISH - Can we flourish without an "Ego-Self?"
Next Episode: FLOURISH - Managing Our Monkey Minds
This episode is the first of a two-part focus on a specific brain network known as the Default Mode Network (DMN).
In part one I discuss how the DMN undermines our happiness and our sense of well-being. I make the case that to improve our happiness, we need to recognize when the DMN has taken over our mind and then learn to replace it with a more mindful state-of-mind.
In part two I discuss specific techniques for managing your DMN, activating it when it can be helpful and deactivating it when it makes you crazy.
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