Meditations to Change Your Brain

The structure of your brain changes constantly in a dynamic, unfolding process that you yourself can help direct to create the life you want. This is the exciting premise of Meditations to Change Your Brain, a breakthrough three-CD program from neuropsychologist Rick Hanson, PhD, and neurologist Richard Mendius, MD. Drawing on a vast body of research spanning more than 30 years, Hanson and Mendius show you how to strengthen the neural circuits that generate happiness, love, and inner peace. Join them to explore fascinating insights about your brain and how you can consciously affect it with good results.

Rick Hanson, PhD, is a neuropsychologist and cofounder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom (WiseBrain.org). A summa cum laude graduate of UCLA, he began meditating in 1974 and has practiced in several traditions. First author of Mother Nurture, his latest book is Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom (with Richard Mendius, MD; preface by Jack Kornfield, and foreword by Daniel J. Siegel, MD). Dr. Hanson teaches at Sonoma State University and at meditation centers in America and Europe. He and his wife have two young-adult children. Richard Mendius, MD, is a neurologist and co-founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom. He trained at UCLA as an epileptologist and neurobehaviorist. He has been on the teaching faculty of UCLA, Oregon Health Sciences University, and Stanford University. His meditation practice began in the 1980s with Shinzen Young and continues at Spirit Rock Meditation Center with Jack Kornfield and Ajahn Amaro. He teaches a weekly meditation class at San Quentin. His daughters, Courtney and Taryn, and his son, Ian, are three of his main teachers and companions on the path.