Bliss Brain: The Neuroscience of Remodelling Your Brain for Resilience, Creativity and Joy

In Bliss Brain, Dawson Church, Ph.D., combines cutting-edge neuroscience with personal experience to demonstrate how we can rewire our brains for happiness starting right now. He explores the concept of neural plasticity, which shows that the brain is capable of rewiring itself, and provides evidence of rapid and radical brain change through practices such as deep meditation. Church's research reveals that neural remodeling can lead to stable and enduring personality traits, such as happiness, compassion, and resilience. He also discusses the release of 7 neurochemicals of ecstasy during deep meditation, which can produce a self-induced high.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 21 March 2023
Publisher: Hay House UK Ltd

Award-winning author and thought leader Dawson Church, Ph.D., blends cutting-edge neuroscience with intense firsthand experience to show you how you can rewire your brain for happiness-starting right now.

Neural plasticity-the discovery that the brain is capable of rewiring itself-is now widely understood. But what few people have grasped yet is how quickly this is happening, how extensive brain changes can be, and how much control each of us has over the process.

In Bliss Brain, famed researcher Dawson Church digs deep into leading-edge science, and finds stunning evidence of rapid and radical brain change. In just eight weeks of practice, 12 minutes a day, using the right techniques, we can produce measurable changes in our brains. These make us calmer, happier, and more resilient.

When we cultivate these pleasurable states over time, they become traits. We don t just feel more blissful as a temporary state; the changes are literally hard-wired into our brains, becoming stable and enduring personality traits.

The startling conclusions of Church s research show that neural remodeling goes much farther than scientists have previously understood, with stress circuits shriveling over time. Simultaneously, The Enlightenment Circuit-associated with happiness, compassion, productivity, creativity, and resilience-expands.

During deep meditation, Church shows how the 7 neurochemicals of ecstasy are released in our brains. These include anandamide, a neurotransmitter that s been named the bliss molecule because it mimics the effects of THC, the active ingredient in cannabis. It boosts serotonin and dopamine; the first is an analog of psilocybin, the second of cocaine. He shows.

Weight: 480g
Dimension: 153 x 228 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781788175388