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New episodes come out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers. --- Dr. Sanjay Gupta is the multiple Emmy Award-winning chief medical correspondent for CNN and host of the CNN podcast Chasing Life. Gupta, a practicing neurosurgeon, plays an integral role in CNN’s reporting on health and medical news for all of CNN’s shows domestically and internationally. In addition to his work for CNN, Gupta is an associate professor of neurosurgery at Emory University Hospital and associate chief of neurosurgery at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. He is the author of four New York Times best-selling books, “Chasing Life” (2007), “Cheating Death” (2009), “Monday Mornings” (2012), and “Keep Sharp: Building a Better Brain” (2020). In this episode we talk about: Sanjay’s origin story and how he got interested in the brain in the first place The mysteries of consciousness We dive into his five pillars of brain health How you can grow new brain cells by moving the body (but in certain ways) Key skills for challenging your brain We hear about some meditation tips Sanjay picked up from the Dalai Lama Whether we should worry alone or with other people And lastly, why it’s so important for men to have vulnerable conversations with each other Related Episodes: The Dalai Lama’s Guide to Happiness #230: The Power of Rest | Alex Soojung-Kim Pang #614. Your Brain on Food | Dr. Uma Naidoo The Science Of Memory: How To Get Better At Remembering And Be Okay With Forgetting | Charan Ranganath Sign up for Dan’s weekly newsletter here Follow Dan on social: Instagram, TikTok Ten Percent Happier online bookstore Subscribe to our YouTube Channel Our favorite playlists on: Anxiety, Sleep, Relationships, Most Popular Episodes Full Shownotes: https://happierapp.com/podcast/tph/sanjay-gupta-836

New episodes come out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers. --- A (potentially challenging) Buddhist recipe handling anxious times. Tara Brach, a legendary meditation teacher, psychologist, and frequent flier on this show. She is the founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington and has been active in bringing meditation into schools, prisons and underserved populations. She has also written several books including Radical Acceptance, Radical Compassion and Trusting the Gold.  In this episode we talk about: A Buddhist tradition known as the Bodhisattva teachings… which are quite radical… and which Tara thinks can vastly improve your life… and the health of democracy.  We also talk about: why some people might think this stuff is too soft 4 practices to develop compassion  A mindfulness technique known as RAIN How mindfulness can help you see what is beneath your anger Letting distress be a portal—and the amazing phrase, “action absorbs anxiety” How to get active when you have limited time And how to counteract the tendency to numb out Tara also recorded a guided meditation based on this conversation, which you can find on www.DanHarris.com. Related Episodes: The Dalai Lama’s Guide To Happiness Vitamin E: How To Cultivate Equanimity Amidst Political Chaos | Election Sanity Series | Roshi Joan Halifax A Counterintuitive Source of Hope | Sebene Selassie Best of the Archives: Making it RAIN | Tara Brach Can You Handle This? | Tara Brach How to Stop the War Against Yourself | Tara Brach Sign up for Dan’s weekly newsletter here Follow Dan on social: Instagram, TikTok Ten Percent Happier online bookstore Subscribe to our YouTube Channel Our favorite playlists on: Anxiety, Sleep, Relationships, Most Popular Episodes Full Shownotes: https://happierapp.com/podcast/tph/tarabrach-833

New episodes come out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers. --- The connection between your psychology and your health, and how to work with it. Ellen J. Langer is the author of eleven books, including the international bestseller Mindfulness, which has been translated into fifteen languages, and Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility. Most recently, she is the author of The Mindful Body: Thinking Our Way to Chronic Health. Langer is the recipient of, among other numerous awards and honors, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest from the American Psychological Association, the Award for Distinguished Contributions of Basic Science to the Application of Psychology from the American Association of Applied and Preventive Psychology, and the Adult Development and Aging Distinguished Research Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association. She is the author of more than 200 research articles and her trailblazing experiments in social psychology have earned her inclusion in The New York Times Magazine’s “Year in Ideas” issue. A member of the psychology department at Harvard University and a painter, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In this episode we talk about: The power of placebos Why she isn’t a fan of positive thinking as it is talked about in new age circles Her version of mindfulness, which is quite different from the version we usually talk about here on the show, which comes out of Buddhism Psychological treatments for chronic illness  Smart strategies for reframing aging.  Why the world would be boring if you knew it all What she means by her concept of a “mindful utopia” And her favorite one liners  Related Episodes: The Science Of Manifestation: Can This Stanford Neuroscientist Convince A Skeptical Dan To Give It A Shot? | Dr. James R. Doty How to Get the Wisdom of Old Age Now | Dilip Jeste  Tripping Out with a Legend: Jon Kabat-Zinn on Pain vs. Suffering, Rethinking Your Anxiety, and the Buddha's Teaching in a Single Sentence Sign up for Dan’s weekly newsletter here Follow Dan on social: Instagram, TikTok Ten Percent Happier online bookstore Subscribe to our YouTube Channel Our favorite playlists on: Anxiety, Sleep, Relationships, Most Popular Episodes Full Shownotes: https://happierapp.com/podcast/tph/ellen-langer-832