My friend and colleague Rick Hanson, PhD, who has an extraordinary ability to distill complex neuroscience down to understanding we can act on, has been kind enough to include a chapter of TNOC1 in their latest newsletter, The Wise Brain Bulletin.
For those of you not familiar with the bulletin, it is a free bi-monthly newsletter filled with ‘skillful means – from psychology, neurology, and contemplative practice – for personal well-being, relationships, work, and spiritual development.’
For those of you not familiar with Rick, he is a neuropsychologist and Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center. After publishing a series of NYT best-selling books including Hardwiring Happiness, Rick has become really focused on the big picture of moving human and planetary flourishing at scale, to which end he has spearheaded the Global Compassion Coalition, which is taking bold swings at really moving the needle on scaling compassion around the world.
About The Neurobiology of Connection, Rick was kind enough to say,
and which I was smart enough to put on the cover of the paperback, which is coming out in the next few weeks.
As I explain in TNOC, cultivating an embodied sense of safety is the first crucial step toward greater wellbeing and inner peace. Yet there is a real question about whether or not this is even possible in a world filled with existential threats.
You can read my essay grappling with this, through a deep evolutionary lens, as well as 7 practical ways that you can do it (drawn from Chapters 15 & 16 of TNOC), in the latest edition of the Wise Brain Bulletin. Please share the link!
The Neurobiology of Connection