The Neurodharma of Love: Rewire Your Brain for Healthy Relationships

The Neuroscience of Fulfilling Relationships-A Guided Training Program
Most of our greatest joys and sorrows happen in our relationships with others. Imagine then: what if you could guide your mind to forgive, heal, and find greater happiness in your connections with others? "The remarkable truth is that you can," teaches Rick Hanson.
With The Neurodharma of Love, this well-respected clinician and teacher shows us how brain science, practical psychology, and Buddhist meditation practices are now converging to help us experience greater intimacy and fulfillment-in our intimate relationships, with family and friends, and in our larger circles of work and community. This practice-centered audio program invites us to learn:
How to strengthen our underlying neural circuits of empathy, compassion, kindness, and love at the deepest levels
- Meditations to help us heal childhood wounds and shift out of fight-or-flight reactivity
- How to create a healthy balance of intimacy and independence, open our hearts, resolve conflicts with others, and lay the neuropsychological foundation for lasting love
"Compassion," "love," "openheartedness"-these aren't just nice ideas. They're actual brain states that we can nurture and strengthen. The Neurodharma of Love shows us how, with powerful insights and practices to enrich all of our relationships.
Course objectives:
Discuss how to strengthen our underlying neural circuits of empathy, compassion, kindness, and love at the deepest levels
- Practice meditations to help us heal childhood wounds and shift out of fight-or-flight reactivity
- Explain how to create a healthy balance of intimacy and independence, open our hearts, resolve conflicts with others, and lay the neuropsychological foundation for lasting love

Rick Hanson, PhD, is a psychologist, Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center, and New York Times bestselling author. His seven books have been published in 33 languages and include Making Great Relationships, Neurodharma, Resilient, Hardwiring Happiness, Just One Thing, Buddha's Brain, and Mother Nurture-with over a million copies in English alone. He's the founder of the Global Compassion Coalition and the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, as well as the cohost of the Being Well podcast, which has been downloaded 23 million times. His free newsletters have 260,000 subscribers, and his online programs have scholarships available for those with financial needs. He's lectured at NASA, Google, Oxford, and Harvard. An expert on positive neuroplasticity, his work has been featured on CBS, NPR, the BBC, and other major media. He began meditating in 1974 and has taught in meditation centers worldwide. He and his wife live in northern California and have two adult children. He loves the wilderness and taking a break from emails.