How To Escape Your Brain's Default Mode Network | Zindel Segal and Norman Farb
Podcast |
Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris
Publisher |
Ten Percent Happier
Media Type |
audio
Podknife tags |
Happiness, 
Health, 
Interview, 
Meditation, 
Mental Health, 
Self-Help
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Health & Fitness, 
Mental Health
Publication Date |
Jun 05, 2024
Episode Duration |
01:04:15

Using your senses to reduce overthinking, turn down the voice in your head, and get out of what these scientists call "the house of habit."

Dr. Zindel Segal is Distinguished Professor of Psychology in Mood Disorders at the University of Toronto Scarborough and a cofounder of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy.  Professor Norman Farb, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto Mississauga, where he directs the Regulatory and Affective Dynamics laboratory. 

In this episode we talk about:

  • How the brain’s default mode network is essential to our survival but also can keep us stuck in rumination and overthinking 
  • Segal and Farb’s simple practice of “sense foraging” and why they say it can help break patterns and thoughts that aren’t serving us 
  • The differences and the similarities between sense foraging and mindfulness 

Related Episodes:

Depression and Anxiety: Your Old Enemies, Your Best Friends | Zindel Segal

Gretchen Rubin on: How To Use Your Five Senses To Reduce Anxiety, Increase Creativity, and Improve Your Relationships

Why You Can’t Pay Attention - And How to Think Deeply Again | Johann Hari

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Using your senses to reduce overthinking, turn down the voice in your head, and get out of what these scientists call "the house of habit."

Using your senses to reduce overthinking, turn down the voice in your head, and get out of what these scientists call "the house of habit."

Dr. Zindel Segal is Distinguished Professor of Psychology in Mood Disorders at the University of Toronto Scarborough and a cofounder of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy.  Professor Norman Farb, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto Mississauga, where he directs the Regulatory and Affective Dynamics laboratory. 

In this episode we talk about:

  • How the brain’s default mode network is essential to our survival but also can keep us stuck in rumination and overthinking 
  • Segal and Farb’s simple practice of “sense foraging” and why they say it can help break patterns and thoughts that aren’t serving us 
  • The differences and the similarities between sense foraging and mindfulness 

Related Episodes:

Depression and Anxiety: Your Old Enemies, Your Best Friends | Zindel Segal

Gretchen Rubin on: How To Use Your Five Senses To Reduce Anxiety, Increase Creativity, and Improve Your Relationships

Why You Can’t Pay Attention - And How to Think Deeply Again | Johann Hari

Sign up for Dan’s weekly newsletter here

Follow Dan on social: Instagram, TikTok

Ten Percent Happier online bookstore

Subscribe to our YouTube Channel

Our favorite playlists on: Anxiety, Sleep, Relationships, Most Popular Episodes

Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/tph/podcast-episode/segal-farb

Additional Resources:

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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