143. Building Resilience And An Open Heart With Your Heart-Brain (encore)
In this episode, we're working on our element Hope... and resilience as well! We're still adventuring through The Roots of Resilience (laid out in one of Dr. Emmons book, The Chemistry of Calm). We're talking about the sixth root, "Cultivating a Good Heart." What does this have to do with mental health?! A lot actually. We're not just a brain wandering around all alone. We're more than that. And this root opens up the rest of our body, and the world around us, so that we can not only improve our mental health, but connect with meaning and purpose, and tap into our joy, hope, and resilience. We'll get into some specifics with the factors of self-acceptance, loving-kindness, and compassion as foundational strategies to cultivate a good heart. Expect to learn some insights from neuroscience and traditional wisdom on the heart's central role in emotional processing and connection, along with key practices to cultivate kindness and compassion towards ourselves and others.
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Key moments:
00:00 Welcome to Joy Lab
00:46 Introducing the Roots of Resilience Series: Hope and Resilience
05:59 Exploring the Heart-Brain Connection: A Deep Dive into Neurocardiology
13:46 Cultivating a Good Heart: Practices for Connection and Kindness
21:40 Closing Thoughts and Wisdom from the Dalai Lama
Sources and Notes:
- Joy Lab Program: Take the next leap in your wellbeing journey with step-by-step practices to help you build and maintain the elements of joy in your life.
- Subscribe to our Newsletter: Join us over at Joylab.coach for exclusive emails, updates, and additional strategies.
- Check out our favorite resilience-boosting reads: Bookshop.org
- Chemistry of Calm (Dr. Emmons' book referenced in this series)
- Annual Research Review: Positive adjustment to adversity -Trajectories of minimal-impact resilience and emergent resilience
- The Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Hope and Stress
- The role of Hope in subsequent health and well-being for older adults: An outcome-wide longitudinal approach
- More on those snails/slugs:
- Joy Lab Podcast ep #26: Self-Compassion: Don't Believe Everything You Think (about yourself)
- The Three Kindnesses. Here are the three patterns of kindness to notice:
- Notice someone acting kindly to another person.
- Notice someone acting kindly to you.
- Notice when you act kindly to someone else.
- Hopelessness and Risk of Mortality and Incidence of Myocardial Infarction and Cancer
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