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Friday Feb 25, 2022
Unwinding Anxiety: Judson Brewer and Mirjam Paninski in Conversation
Friday Feb 25, 2022
Friday Feb 25, 2022
Dr. Jud Brewer MD PhD is the Director of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center and associate professor in Behavioral and Social Sciences at the School of Public Health and Psychiatry at the Medical School at Brown University. He also is a research affiliate at MIT. A psychiatrist and internationally known expert in mindfulness training for addictions, Brewer has developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for behavior change, including both in-person and app-based treatments for smoking, emotional eating, and anxiety. He has also studied the underlying neural mechanisms of mindfulness using standard and real-time fMRI, and source-estimated EEG, and is currently translating these findings into clinical use. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, presented to the US President’s Office of National Drug Control Policy, foreign Parliaments, trained US Olympic athletes and coaches, and foreign government ministers and has been featured on 60 minutes, at TED (4th most viewed talk of 2016 with over 17 Million views), in the New York Times, Time magazine (top 100 new health discoveries of 2013), Forbes, Businessweek, NPR, National Geographic, and the BBC among others. He is the author of The Craving Mind: from cigarettes to smartphones to love, why we get hooked and how we can break bad habits (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017) and the New York Times best-seller, Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind (Avery/Penguin Random House, 2021).
Here is what Jud and Mirjam discuss:
How can we define addiction and why we may all me addicted
Dr. Jud’s lightbulb moment: how anxiety is related to addiction
The importance of meditation and mindfulness
Are meditation and mindfulness the same?
A painful lesson: the less you know the more you say
What does Dr. Jud’s meditation practice looks like?
Why breaking a habit is not a question of willpower
The importance of the ancient scriptures in Dr. Jud’s lab
Why we prefer cake over broccoli
How mindfulness helps with procrastination
The power of Dr. Jud’s apps
The importance of kindness
Dr. Jud's website is: https://drjud.com/
Mirjam's website is: https://www.mirjampaninski.com/
#eft #eftuniverse #tapping #meditation #blissbrain #mindtomatter #kindness #mindfulness
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