In just 4 weeks of practice, 20 minutes a day, using EcoMeditation, we can produce measurable changes in our brains. These make us calmer, happier, and more resilient.
When we cultivate pleasurable “flow” states regularly, they become traits. We don't just feel more blissful as a temporary experience; the changes are literally hard-wired into our brains, becoming stable and enduring personality traits.
This leads to “Bliss Brain.” It’s a state in which joy is natural. It nurtures the personality traits of patience, compassion, creativity and love.
In the new Bliss Brain book by legendary researcher Dr. Dawson Church, developer of EcoMeditation, you'll learn the 7 simple steps that lead to elevated emotional states that can take you to Bliss Brain daily.
But what science is now showing is that this neural plasticity isn’t just happening over the course of months or years. It’s occurring quickly, and can remodel entire networks in the brain over time. Stress circuits shrink while happiness circuits grow.
In Bliss Brain, famed researcher Dawson Church, PhD, reveals startling conclusions that neural remodeling goes much farther than scientists have previously understood. In meditation adepts, stress circuits begin to shrivel. Simultaneously, the “Enlightenment Circuit” — associated with joy, compassion, productivity, creativity, and equanimity — expands.
During deep meditation, 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. Meditation boosts serotonin and dopamine; the first is an analog of psilocybin, the second of cocaine.
Bliss Brain shows that when you elevate your emotional states using EcoMeditation, you get "high" on your brain's natural neurochemicals.
Dawson Church, PhD, is an award-winning author whose best-selling book, The Genie in Your Genes, has been hailed by reviewers as a breakthrough in our understanding of the link between emotions and genetics.
He founded the National Institute for Integrative Healthcare to study and implement promising evidence-based psychological and medical techniques. His groundbreaking research has been published in prestigious scientific journals.
He is the editor of Energy Psychology: Theory, Research, & Treatment, a peer-reviewed professional journal and a blogger for the Huffington Post.
While writing Bliss Brain, Church went through a series of disasters, including escaping seconds ahead of a California wildfire that consumed his home and office and claimed 22 lives. A painful injury and financial disaster followed.
Through it all, Church steadily practiced the techniques of Bliss Brain while teaching them to thousands of other people.
This book weaves his story of resilience into the fabric of neuroscience, producing a fascinating picture of just how happy we can make our brains, no matter what the odds.
He shares how to apply the breakthroughs of energy psychology to health and athletic performance through EFT Universe, one of the largest alternative medicine sites on the web.