How to Toggle Your Brain

Wouldn't it be cool if you could understand how your brilliant, stupid and traitorous brain actually worked?  And maybe nudge it towards being slightly less self-destructive?

Matt sits down with his long-time friend Dr. Norman Farb to talk about 'sense foraging' and how we can use it to toggle between different mental systems and sometimes even disrupt unhealthy mind states before they get locked in.

Norman is the co-author of Better in Every Sense: How the New Science of Sensation Can Help You Reclaim Your Life.

Helping people manage their mental worlds and reduce stress is multi-solving on a very high level -- because all those people will go on to fix all sorts of problems in their own lives and in the world around them!

If you know someone who might benefit from a little sense foraging -- give this episode a share!

This is the last episode of Season 2 – it was a short season because I moved homes last fall – but I’ll be back in November and then I’ll try to get closer to aligning my podcast season with the school year for Season 3. 

Notes and Links:

Better in Every Sense: How the New Science of Sensation Can Help You Reclaim Your Life. 

Norm's Website: https://radlab.zone/

The Myriad Study: https://mindfulnessinschools.org/the-evidence-base/myriad-what-misp-learned/ 

Music Credits:

 'Epilogue' by The Slow Motions. Used with permission of the artist.

‘Opening’ by Phillip Glass. Arr. by Karl Michelson.  Performed by The Union Guitar Trio.  Used with permission of the artists.

Union Guitar Trio on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/track/2E0NidLjIzBAO7t0BBPFUD

Union Guitar Trio on Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/us/artist/the-union-guitar-trio/1592543833 

Poseidon Above  by be-steele -- https://freesound.org/s/323053/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 

Sound Credits:

Tambourine by GR3AVE5Y -- https://freesound.org/s/149395/ -- License: Attribution 4.0