Reprogram Your Brain For Happiness - by Jonathan Lehmann

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Reprogram Your Brain For Happiness

With Jonathan Lehmann

The brain is our most important and powerful tool, and how we use it determines the quality of our lives. Unfortunately, certain traits of the brain can limit our ability to find happiness. These can include: its propensity to create fear, stress and anxiety, as well as its tendency to draw on negative thought patterns, that we've learnt throughout our childhood and have been socially conditioned to believe. The good news is that the human brain constantly evolves throughout our lifetimes based on how we use it: this phenomenon is known as neuroplasticity. Throughout this course, we’ll practice meditation exercises such as breathing, visualizations and affirmations to help us use our brain as a tool to create happiness and meaning for ourselves and others. We will learn the skills necessary to connect to our bodies and the present moment, live with courage, deal with negativity, practice gratitude and compassion, communicate consciously, change our relationship to time, accept our shadows, live with uncertainty, and manifest our desires. Leave this course feeling deeply empowered and with a greater sense of ease, as you learn how to gain control over your thoughts and work towards a more happy and fulfilling existence.


Meet your Teacher

Jonathan used to be an unhappy Wall Street lawyer and now devotes himself full-time to the study of happiness as a blogger, author and meditation coach. Jonathan's guided meditations employ a blend of mindfulness, gratitude, visualizations and affirmations: they are inspired by the wisdom of ancient spiritual teachings as well as some of the most recent scientific findings in the fields of neurology, cognitive psychology and positive psychology. Jonathan's intent is to share the teachings that have made a profound impact on his path, specifically on his ability to feel joy, to find purpose and to connect to the present moment.

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10 Days

44.4k students

4.8 stars

14 min / day

Happiness

English


Lesson 1

Finding Joy In The Present Moment

The human mind is obsessed with remembering and imagining – it compulsively creates tens of thousands of thoughts each day about the past and the future – such that it often prevents us from connecting to the here and now, where life is actually happening. The most important skill to make the brain the best possible tool is to strengthen our ability attention to pay attention to the present moment. This is what we’ll practice in today’s session, by better understanding the difference between the concepts of pleasure and joy, and by practicing breathing exercises that will allow us to find a serene breathing movement that can then become a point of reference in our daily lives.

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Lesson 2

Connecting To The Body

One of the most game-changing teachings on how to upgrade our brain to live a happier life was given to us by Buddha over 2500 years ago; that we have the ability to observe our emotions without compulsively reacting to them, thereby limiting the mind’s tendency to create suffering. In this session, we’ll be working on strengthening this ability of our mind to observe what is and to find a sense of peace in the simple observation of our physical sensations.

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Lesson 3

Living With Courage

Fear is the number one factor limiting us in our ability to live up to our full potential and access moments of magic, love and joy. In this session, we'll see how we can learn to move out of our comfort zone and into the place where our wildest dreams come true. The combination of meditation and visualization is a powerful way to train our minds to face fear instead of running away from it.

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Lesson 4

Practicing Gratitude

One of the main obstacles to our brain’s ability to create happiness is its negativity bias: the tendency of the mind to give more weight to negative thoughts than positive ones. Simple as it may sound, when practiced regularly, gratitude has the power to dramatically improve the brain’s ability to create happiness in our lives. In this session, we’ll be practicing breathing, visualizations and affirmations increase this capacity of the brain to become a happiness-making machine.

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Lesson 5

Practicing Compassion

One of the most powerful ways in which we can upgrade our brains is by learning to refrain from our natural inclination to blame and point fingers at others and instead start seeing other people’s negativity as a form of suffering to which the only rational response is the practice of compassion. In other words: how to go from judgement to comprehension. In this session, we’ll practice visualizations and affirmations to open our hearts and strengthen our ability to feel compassion for ourselves and others.

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Lesson 6

Communicating Consciously

The most important ingredient for a happy life is our ability to develop and maintain loving relationships with others. This in turn requires that we hone the skill of mindful communication, by bringing more awareness and kindness in how we speak, how listen and how we interpret the words and deeds of others. In this session, we’ll practice affirmations to strengthen our ability to communicate consciously.

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Lesson 7

Changing Our Relationship To Time

One of the ways our minds creates unhappiness is through our perception of/ relationship to time. Either we judge that we do not have enough of it and overwhelm ourselves by trying to do too much at once. In both cases, we’re creating frustration in our lives because of the belief that things should be different from what they are. In today’s session, we’ll practice affirmations to change our relationship to time and learn or relearn to focus on one thing at a time.

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Lesson 8

Self Love

We all have aspects of ourselves that we judge as undesirable, that we hide and that we wish we could get rid of. But when we resist a particular trait in ourselves, it tends to show up in our most vulnerable moments, and to create a disconnect with others. It may seem somewhat counter-intuitive, but the only way to prevent these aspects of ourselves from creating unhappiness is to actually embrace them: to love ourselves unconditionally, especially when we display the behavior that we wish no one would see. In this session, through breathing, visualizations and affirmations, we’ll bring our awareness to these repressed traits of our personality and practice giving them more love not less.

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Lesson 9

Embracing Uncertainty

One of the most difficult aspects of living with a tyrannical mind is that it always wants to be right and to make the uncertain certain. But this is counterproductive to our happiness, and can lead to unnecessary frustration. Rather, what is conducive to happiness is to learn to focus on what is useful rather than what is right, to do our best in each moment, and to practice going with the flow of life. In this session, we’ll be practicing affirmations to allow the brain to more naturally embrace uncertainty and to take life moment by moment.

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Lesson 10

Manifesting Our Desires

An important realization when it comes to upgrading our brains is to acknowledge that we still have much to discover about it, and that we most likely are still using but a fraction of its capacity. One of its most amazing abilities that has yet to be explained in scientific terms is our ability to manifest what we truly desire, that is to say to give material form to our thoughts. Our mind has the ability to attract and manifest our vision into the world, and in this session, we’ll be practicing visualization exercises to strengthen our ability to create the life we desire.

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Ask your teacher

This course includes 471 community questions and 51 audio replies from Jonathan Lehmann. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Milan

January 20, 2026

Excellent course content and approach

Alisa

January 12, 2026

Really enjoyed this course, will continue to listen again!

Carrie

December 27, 2025

I enjoyed this 10 day course on happiness. It was helpful and I will take simple things from it to use in my daily life. Thank you. 🙏🏽

Kim

December 27, 2025

Exceptional. So good I’m starting it again. ♥️

Alice

December 15, 2025

Especially good if you are looking to understand more, how your mind and your mood and your feelings work

Martin

November 19, 2025

Great food for thought to wake up each day. Thanks for drawing me in before I go out!

Jenny

November 15, 2025

I really loved this course. So much wisdom in each session, and your kind gentle guidance. I definitely want to repeat it to try to take in all the lessons. Thank you so much Jonathan 🙏🏽

Virginia

November 4, 2025

Jonathan Lehmann leads the way through a fun, thoughtful and very effective 19-day course called, "Re-program Your Brain for Happiness." He provides a foundation for these meditations by sharing good science and the inspiring words of wise teachers and philosophers from across human time. The meditations are practical, with helpful cues and tools that one can easily adopt into one's own meditation tool-kit, integrating and incorporating useful methods for long-term personal practice and growth. I will be a Jonathan fan from here on. He is a help to me in my journey, and I am grateful.

Yana

October 7, 2025

A must do course from everyone! Thank u xx

Karl

September 4, 2025

This course was really good and helpful. Jon is really smooth and eases you in. Ijust completed the 10 days and I will start it all over again 🙏🏻 merci Jon 🙏🏻

Siri

September 3, 2025

What a beautiful course- thank you! I especially love the meditations at the end of each session.

Emma

September 1, 2025

Amazing 10 days that made me stick to a habit to meditate every day! I feel real changes in the way I think and feel, and it feels like the life has already started to shift. And I’m ready for miracles ✨ Thank you Jonathan for sharing your wisdom! Namaste 🙏🏻

Jude

August 19, 2025

Amazing course thank you. So many useful tips and insights. I liked the quotations too. For a short course there’s a lot of varied and in depth content. I will come back to it . I’ve made lots of notes in my journal too.

Axel

August 6, 2025

Merci énormément pour cet audio 🌝🌍☀️🌚 Le contenu est formidable et a certainement contribué à des améliorations, parfois immediate dans mon quotidien.

Angela

July 31, 2025

Insight Timer always offers such great courses etc. Jonathan’s course has become a new favorite as I make improvements to my life. Highly recommended! Thank you!

Lindsey

July 9, 2025

Grateful for this course. Thank you 🙏🏻💛

Jeff

July 3, 2025

Just what I needed.

Sami

June 23, 2025

Great course. Jonathan has a very understated but effective approach. Davvero bravo, grazie !

Judith

June 20, 2025

I loved this meditation plus the affirmations at the end. Love the calming voice!

Mitzi

June 6, 2025

Excellent experience. What a fabulous teacher Jonathan is

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