588: From Suffering to Growth with Dr. Julia DiGangi
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
What if your greatest pain in life was not the terrible things that happen to you, but instead the confusion and disjunction between your mind and body? Our bodies are wired for survival, but we all hope to find peace and contentment. Is it possible? Our guest on this week’s podcast believes it is.
Listen and learn:
- How pain increase amygdala size and activity while simultaneously decreasing hippocampus size and activity
- Why self trust is the missing link in the confusion created by pain
- How exposure and facing our pain head on is the only way through
- The idiocy of trying to outrun or avoid the monster that lives between your ears
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Dr. Julia DiGangi is a neuropsychologist and founder of NeuroHealth Partners, specializing in the neuroscience of emotional, cognitive, and social health. She also has an excellent TEDx talk on the art of suffering.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Every year there are dozens of new books that come out about happiness. |
| 0:05.2 | There are entire podcasts that are dedicated to research around happiness. |
| 0:09.9 | If we ask 10 people on the street what they hope to have happened with their life, probably |
| 0:14.5 | 9 out of 10 would say I just want to be happy. |
| 0:18.0 | And I don't think they're lying, but I think they're poorly articulating what they're actually |
| 0:23.2 | trying to say, which is they want to optimize for positive emotion. |
| 0:26.5 | And even more specifically, they'd like to optimize their life to avoid negative emotion |
| 0:32.4 | to the greatest extent possible. |
| 0:34.9 | And we all say this. |
| 0:35.9 | We all read these books. |
| 0:36.9 | We all listen to these podcasts knowing full well that the inevitability of loss and |
| 0:41.3 | pain in hardship is just right around the corner. |
| 0:44.2 | And with every passing year as you get older and older, the loss and the pain and the hardship, |
| 0:49.8 | it scales. |
| 0:50.8 | It doesn't lessen its scales. |
| 0:53.4 | So what do you do? |
| 0:55.2 | So many of us do is we hide from it. |
| 0:57.1 | We sequester pain away and we try to move around it rather than moving through it. |
| 1:03.3 | And I guess on this week's podcast has a different approach. |
| 1:06.6 | If you're new here, it's the Lucas Rockwood show. |
| 1:08.9 | I'm a yoga teacher. |
| 1:09.7 | I'm a trainer, a serial entrepreneur. |
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