This podcast features an interview discussing the neurobiology of happiness and how to cultivate positive mental states. The conversation explores the brain's negativity bias, outlining five hardwired tendencies that contribute to negative experiences and offering three evidence-based techniques to internalize positive ones: staying with positive feelings, feeling them in the body, and highlighting their reward value. The HEAL framework (Have, Enrich, Absorb, Link) is introduced as a structured approach to this process. The interview concludes by emphasizing the importance of shifting from deficit-based motivation to a sense of "enoughness" and the need for more research on deliberate internalization of positive experiences to improve therapeutic outcomes.
