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With Zuzana Robertson, AFBPsS, MSc, CSci
Your brain was never designed to make you happy. It was designed to keep you alive. And for most of human history, that was enough. The threats were real. The danger was physical. The stress response activated, did its job, and then switched off. That is not what happens now. Now the threats are emails. Meetings. Notifications. The look someone gave you across a room. The thought that arrived at 3am and brought seventeen other thoughts with it. None of them life-threatening. All of them processed by the same ancient survival system that kept your ancestors alive on the savannah. Your brain cannot tell the difference. And that is not a personal failing. It is neuroscience. But here is what changes everything. Your brain is not fixed. It is plastic. It can be changed. Not through willpower or positive thinking or trying harder. Through understanding precisely how it works and applying precisely the right inputs to shift it. Across eleven days this course gives you both. The neuroscience of why your brain gets stuck in stress, fear, and negative patterns. And the precise sonic tools, grounded in the latest research, to begin changing those patterns at the level of the nervous system rather than just the mind. Each day combines a short, evidence-based teaching, drawn from neuropsychology, polyvagal theory, and the science of neuroplasticity, with a guided somatic practice and an original music track composed specifically to produce the neurological state that teaching describes. You will understand the negativity bias and why your brain is wired to hold onto the difficult and release the good. You will learn the 12-second rule that changes how positive experience is encoded in long-term memory. You will work with the specific sounds that regulate the threat detection system. And you will build a daily practice that your nervous system can actually feel working. This is not stress management. It is something more fundamental than that. This is understanding your own brain well enough to change it. Eleven days. The most useful neuroscience you will ever apply to your own life.
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11 Days
15 students
5.0 stars
8 min / day
Anxiety
English
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