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Le Cerveau du bonheur door Rick Hanson
Être plus présent et attentif, cultiver la sérénité et la joie intérieure, développer
la compassion, accéder à la plénitude… Ces qualités ne sont pas réservées
à quelques élus ou grands sages.
Dans cet ouvrage révolutionnaire et pratique, le neuropsychologue et chercheur Rick Hanson nous livre les dernières recherches sur le cerveau qu’il associe à
la sagesse bouddhiste pour transformer notre esprit. Grâce à sept pratiques puissantes pour remodeler nos circuits neuronaux en conscience, il nous guide étape par étape pour développer nos qualités et nous aider à gérer le stress, guérir la douleur, se sentir à l’aise avec les autres ou encore incarner notre bonté naturelle.
Ces conseils concrets de transformation sont associés à des recherches scientifiques, histoires, méditations guidées et exercices de mise en pratique.
Enrichi par des méditations au format audio, cet ouvrage donne toutes les clés pour se transformer en profondeur.
RICK HANSON, PhD. Auteur de best-sellers, dont Le Cerveau de Bouddha et Le Cerveau du bonheur, Rick Hanson est neuropsychologue et chercheur au centre Greater Good Science de Berkeley (Université de Californie). Fondateur de l’Institut Wellspring pour les neurosciences contemplatives, il a enseigné à Oxford, Stanford et Harvard et il donne des conférences et des formations dans le monde entier.
L'auteur développe 5 thèmes : être bon envers soi-même, aimer la vie, développer ses forces, prendre part au monde, être en paix.
Très agréablement écrit ,facile à lire, ce livre est une vraie récréation, tout en expliquant des choses très utiles!
—Danieljean (Babelio)
—Danieljean (Babelio)
> Scribd : https://fr.scribd.com/document/344654470/Le-cerveau-de-Bouddha-pdf
> « Le Cerveau de Bouddha », de Rick HANSON et Richard MENDIUS. Les deux auteurs, respectivement neuropsychologue et neurologue, nous font part de découvertes récentes quant aux bienfaits de la méditation sur le cerveau. Les sentiments souffrants tels l'angoisse, le stress, l'anxiété sont souvent dus à une surréaction du cerveau face à certaines situations. Des explications claires permettent de comprendre ces mécanismes. Des pistes sont explorées pour désamorcer ces réactions, puisque notre cerveau possède de grandes propriétés de plasticité. On nous propose des exercices et des méditations guidées qui permettent de créer de nouvelles connexions neuronales qui faciliteront l'installation de sentiments apaisants comme le bonheur, la sagesse et la sérénité. Le tout demeure digeste, accessible et sans prétention. Bonne méditation à tous! Aum ! Les Arènes. 298 p. 38.95 €. Marie LACOURSE, Carcajou
—Numéro de Sept.-oct. 2011 (Revue Les libraires)
The book begins by identifying three basic human needs (safety, satisfaction, connection) and ways to meet those needs (recognizing, resourcing, regulating, relating). These are set up in a grid with twelve primary psychological resources that can be used to meet those needs. This provides the foundation for the remainder of the book, and a chapter is devoted to each psychological resource.
The neuroscience content is very accessible with a focus on learning and neuroplasticity. The author explains experience-dependent neuroplasticity, with an emphasis on maintaining sufficiently prolonged attention to experiences and repeating them often enough for them to become consolidated into the nervous system and for neuroplastic changes to occur in neural structure and function.
The author provides suggestions for enriching experiences to improve installation in the brain. Mindfulness is one example of this, and it’s presented in a clear, simple way that’s likely to be compelling even for people who aren’t interested in formal meditation.
The book describes two main modes of interacting with the world around us: a green zone and a red zone. The green zone is a responsive resting state that we enter when our needs are adequately met. The red zone is a reactive mode, with activation of the fight/flight/freeze response and mental fear, frustration, and hurt. Hanson describes how the reactive mode is driven by the more primitive, survival-oriented parts of the brain, and how evolutionary pressures have resulted in the brain having a bias towards the negative/dangerous.
The book’s direct, matter of fact approach helps to reinforce the ideas presented and make them easy to understand. Science and practical applications are always clearly connected. The reward system in the brain is described from a neuroscience perspective, in the context of ways to boost current rewards as well as create new rewards. Empathy is also broken down into its different aspects and the corresponding brain regions, and this forms the basis for a discussion of functioning effectively in interpersonal relationships.
There are a few things that particularly resonated for me. Hanson writes that the inner critic should be considered “guilty until proven innocent.” I also liked the first and second dart analogy for our initial and secondary reactions to difficult situations. The first dart may be unavoidable, but the second dart is one we throw ourselves. Since I tend to be avoidant, it hit home when Hanson pointed out that we often do things because we fear the outcomes, but fail to consider what this dreaded expectation may have actually held us back from.
The book addresses some common misinformed ideas, such as the idea of self-deprivation. Hanson writes that “a healthy body and mind do not come from denying, ‘overcoming’, or transcending needs. They are instead the natural result of taking care of your needs, and being mindful of the needs of others.” The book also explains that focusing on external conditions related to an experience isn’t helpful, because “in terms of internalizing resources into the brain, experiences are independent of the conditions that evoke them.”
The main weakness of this book is that it ends quite abruptly, although, to be honest, that’s something I have a tendency to do myself. The final chapter is on the psychological resource of generosity. There’s no conclusion as one might expect to draw all of the ideas together. The book didn’t really grab me emotionally, but I was okay with that, as I appreciated its practicality. This book is the first I’ve read by this author, and I plan to check out his others.
This review first appeared on Mental Health @ Home: https://mentalhealthathome.org/2019/02/27/book-review-resilient/
There are examples and exercises in the book to guide. In addition he covers linking the good experiences with bad experiences that we've had in order to change the way the bad memory is stored.
Resilient is broken down into four parts, each with three chapters. There’s something about the symmetry of this that makes reading it (or listening to, as I did) go smoothly. And I think that’s part of Hanson’s plan. For me, each part or chapter was like another stone in a gently-balanced cairn.
In addition, he takes three approaches and combines them. The first is his background as a psychologist. Much of this book contains things I’ve heard from therapists over the years. But Hanson takes this perspective and adds layers, making the ideas seem fresh and unique. The second approach is that of Buddhism. Hanson incorporates this softly, with quotes and stories. If Eastern philosophy’s not your thing, I’m guessing you won’t feel forced to agree.
Thirdly, Hanson adds the layer of neuroplasticity, which is the idea that the brain can remake its well-worn behavior pathways with some assistance. Neuroplasticity is an intense scientific concept, but Hanson gives the reader bite size pieces. That helps make it digestible, as does the fact he uses many examples and jargon-free language to explain the ideas.
My conclusions:
I am deeply appreciative of self-help authors who create “Key Concept” sections throughout their book. These are the places I highlight (yes, I had an ebook copy of this as well). When I come back to this book in a few months, it’ll make finding what I want so much easier.
Two of my favorite “key concepts” included the ideas of disentangled and full pardon forgiveness. This is a perfect example of how Hanson imparts his ideas. Contained in the fourth part, titled Relating, and in the chapter on Generosity, he’s found a perfect spot for the ideas. If they’d been introduced earlier on, I might not have been ready—just as it feels with real-life forgiveness. And Hanson doesn’t force his readers to forgive in full pardon, recognizing it’s just not always possible. Instead, he offers a mid-way point with disentangled forgiveness. Thus, the participant in resilience is able to benefit from the information, while still being on the path of growth.
I recommend this book to seekers, and also to those looking for a way to incorporate techniques to build neuroplasticity into everyday life. It’s well worth your time!
Acknowledgements:
Many thanks to NetGalley, the authors, and Crown Publishing / Harmony for the digital ARC in exchange for this honest review.
At times this book reads like a piece of fluff. It’s rooted a lot in the author’s own experience and clearly had the illustrative stories I think are so important in self-help books. It was less clear that the author was going to offer actionable advice or back his claims up with science. Initially, a lot of the advice sounded kind of new-agey and silly to me. Fortunately, the author includes explicit directions for performing exercises that will help you feel better about specific challenges. Even better, for me, they worked! For instance, I sometimes feel stressed about running late, so the other day when I was early, I took a moment to savor being on top of things. When I woke up the next morning feeling like I should be somewhere already, I was able to remember the feeling of being on top of things and relax. It might sound silly, but I really think I’m already feeling happier as a result of this and several other little practices from the book.
In terms of scientific backing, I think the author used a paraphrase of “research has shown” maybe twice in the whole book. He is well credentialed and does eventually get into some of the interesting theories of evolution of the brain underlying his ideas. He also occasionally mentioned other credible sources that influenced his theories. However, I was only really convinced that his work was backed by research when I reached his bibliography. This could easily have been a five star review for me had the author integrated this research into his text. As is, I’d love to give this to friends to read since I’ve found it so helpful, but I don’t think I can. I’d have too hard of a time getting people to look past the insubstantial sounding bits when the text doesn’t make it clear how much research is backing it up. That said, I’d love to talk one of you into reading it and actually trying the exercises, because I think this is a book worth sharing.
This review first published on Doing Dewey.
From my perspective the book is divided into 2 parts. The first part acquaints you with different parts of the brain - which part is involved in higher order thinking, where emotions are processed and how they function as a unit sometimes - or not. The second part of the book is more a series of suggested meditation exercises designed to have positive effects on your mood by regulating different parts of your brain. Although I read the entire book through, I think it would be better to read the second half one chapter at a time. Each day, a chapter could be read and the suggested exercises performed. That way one would have time to absorb the lessons more deeply. I hope to go back and do that some day.
I normally don’t read self-help books, but this one intrigued me with the premise that the brain is like Velcro for the negative and Teflon for the positive. I’m a pessimist, and the Velcro/Teflon thing is definitely an apt and imaginative way to describe how my mind works. Finding out that there’s a revolutionary explanation behind this mindset, and that this is how everyone’s mind naturally works, certainly makes me feel less screwed up.
Hanson goes into the science of why the brain is like Velcro for the negative and Teflon for the positive, and how the accumulation and emphasis of the negative in the brain has a detrimental effect on your life. He describes how the negative neural pathways in the brain can be slowly “rewired” to weaken and remove the negative and to strengthen and increase the positive, making you more resilient to stress, more confident, more secure, and more content. His “HEAL” method for rewiring your brain involves four steps: 1) Have a positive experience. 2) Enrich it. 3) Absorb it. 4) Link positive and negative material. The steps, explained in detail with examples in the book, are logical, simple, and, most importantly, do-able. It essentially amounts to a mental exercise for 10-30 seconds at a time, a few times a day. I think the HEAL method will be helpful in improving my life, and I can’t wait to start trying it. I’ll edit this review in a few weeks with an update on if it was effective for me or not.
Overall, I thought this book was interesting and easy to read, and I’ll probably end up rereading it. I appreciated that each chapter ended with a page or two of review notes to reinforce the most important points. I also liked that the reference list in the back is extensive—certainly a good place to look for sources to explore certain concepts further, and it shows that Hanson has put a lot of research into this book. My only criticism is that the book was fluffy and repetitive at times, but maybe that’s a characteristic of self-help books that I’m not familiar with since it’s not one of my preferred genres. Even with these flaws, I would still recommend/buy this book for anyone that I thought could use some help developing a more positive life and way of thinking.
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Louve_de_mer | 10 andere besprekingen | Mar 27, 2013 |
Louve_de_mer | 10 andere besprekingen | Mar 27, 2013 | The book is well organized, with sections focusing on the transformative nature of the brain, the causes of suffering, and how to achieve happiness, love, and wisdom. The intricate dichotomy of mind vs. brain is explored through a scientific and evolutionary lens. There are several mental exercises and guided meditations to encourage a peaceful, open mind.
The most interesting part, in my opinion, is the concept of the self. Buddha's Brain examines the evolutionary and neurological realities that make the self necessary, yet the irony is that clinging to the self is often a major cause of suffering. Letting go of the self is the most liberating and challenging practices in which to engage.
Because Buddha's Brain is so full of information that I had to read it in small sections; the most I ever read in one sitting was one chapter. Upon reaching the end of a section or chapter, I felt the need to ruminate over all that I had read to really absorb and understand the content. I feel like I learned many useful things from this book, and not just information, but information and practices that I can apply in my daily life as a person and as a teacher. I would definitely recommend Buddha's Brain to anyone looking for ways to improve relationships with yourself and with others.
1 jessicaundomiel | 10 andere besprekingen | Feb 24, 2012 |
jessicaundomiel | 10 andere besprekingen | Feb 24, 2012 | La neurología actual sostiene que, si queremos vivir de manera más feliz, es necesario contrarrestar esos mecanismos mentales, algo que podemos conseguir sencillamente aplicando técnicas que los budistas desarrollaron hace 2.500 años.
El neuropsicólogo Rick Hanson y el neurólogo Richard Mendius explican claramente en este libro cómo funcionan nuestro cerebro y nuestra mente, y cómo podemos influir en ese funcionamiento para llegar a ser quienes somos de verdad, quitándonos de encima algunas cargas que la evolución nos ha legado.
Se trata, en definitiva, de aprender a ser más felices, más amantes y más sabios.
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The brain physiology associated with spiritual states has been fertile ground for researchers and writers alike. Neuropsychologist and meditation teacher Hanson suggests that an understanding of the brain in conjunction with 2,500-year-old Buddhist teachings can help readers achieve more happiness. He explains how the brain evolved to keep humans safe from external threats; the resulting built-in negativity bias creates suffering in modern individuals. Citing psychologist Donald Hebb's conclusion that when neurons fire together, they wire together, Hanson argues that the brain's functioning can be affected by simple practices and meditation to foster well-being. Classic Buddhist concepts such as the three trainings—mindfulness, virtuous action and wisdom—frame Hanson's approach. Written with neurologist Mendius, the book includes descriptions and diagrams of brain functioning. Clear instructions guide the reader toward more positive thoughts and feelings. While the author doesn't always succeed at clarifying complex physiology, this gently encouraging practical guide to your brain offers helpful information supported by research as well as steps to change instinctive patterns through the Buddhist path.
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Hanson and Mendius successfully answer the question: How can you use your mind to strengthen positive brain states and ultimately change your life?
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