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Judson Brewer

Mindfulness · Mindfulness · neuroscience of habit

American psychiatrist and neuroscientist (born 1974) who studies how habits form and how attention loosens them. He is director of research and innovation at Brown University's Mindfulness Center and professor of psychiatry and of behavioral and social sciences there, and has turned his work on craving and anxiety into programmes people can actually follow.

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Judson Brewer

American psychiatrist and neuroscientist (born 1974) who studies how habits form and how attention loosens them. He is director of research and innovation at Brown University's Mindfulness Center and professor of psychiatry and of behavioral and social sciences there, and has turned his work on craving and anxiety into programmes people can actually follow.

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10 min
Meditation

Body Scan

A ten-minute guided body scan, led plainly and without music.

20 min
Talk

The Mind and Addictive Behaviour

Twenty minutes on what his lab found when experienced meditators were put in a scanner.

61 min
Talk

Unwinding Anxiety

An hour on anxiety as a habit rather than a condition, and what that changes about working with it.

9 min
Talk

A Simple Way to Break a Bad Habit

Nine minutes on the habit loop, and on curiosity as the thing that loosens it.

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Mindfulness

A secular, evidence-based approach to attention and awareness, developed from Buddhist meditation practice for clinical and everyday use.

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