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Dr. Martha Beck

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2715 total appearances

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Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

Then if it's not true, if I can't intellectually know something's true because everything's subjective, what's useful? What feels like truth to the body? And I was interested that, for example, polygraph machines work because the body hates to lie, right?

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

Then if it's not true, if I can't intellectually know something's true because everything's subjective, what's useful? What feels like truth to the body? And I was interested that, for example, polygraph machines work because the body hates to lie, right?

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

Then if it's not true, if I can't intellectually know something's true because everything's subjective, what's useful? What feels like truth to the body? And I was interested that, for example, polygraph machines work because the body hates to lie, right?

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

it starts to send up a whole bunch of, you know, activation of stress systems and puts you in fight or flight and everything when you tell a lie or when you keep a secret. So I just started thinking, all right, what makes my body contract and and weaken, and what makes my body feel peaceful, centered, and grounded. And you do so much work with the body.

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

it starts to send up a whole bunch of, you know, activation of stress systems and puts you in fight or flight and everything when you tell a lie or when you keep a secret. So I just started thinking, all right, what makes my body contract and and weaken, and what makes my body feel peaceful, centered, and grounded. And you do so much work with the body.

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

it starts to send up a whole bunch of, you know, activation of stress systems and puts you in fight or flight and everything when you tell a lie or when you keep a secret. So I just started thinking, all right, what makes my body contract and and weaken, and what makes my body feel peaceful, centered, and grounded. And you do so much work with the body.

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

I love that you're a brain-body scientist, because the body is incredibly wise. So I just started letting myself test things, like I was raised Mormon. And very, very Mormon. So, okay, Mormonism. Oh, boy, that doesn't make me feel good at all.

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

I love that you're a brain-body scientist, because the body is incredibly wise. So I just started letting myself test things, like I was raised Mormon. And very, very Mormon. So, okay, Mormonism. Oh, boy, that doesn't make me feel good at all.

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

I love that you're a brain-body scientist, because the body is incredibly wise. So I just started letting myself test things, like I was raised Mormon. And very, very Mormon. So, okay, Mormonism. Oh, boy, that doesn't make me feel good at all.

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

And, okay, so God is not a white man who lives near the planet Kolob. Okay, that is not true. Okay, that feels better. Okay. So I started following what made my body relax because my whole body, as I said a few minutes ago, is far more sophisticated, has spent far more time being tinkered with by evolution than my human ability to think in language.

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

And, okay, so God is not a white man who lives near the planet Kolob. Okay, that is not true. Okay, that feels better. Okay. So I started following what made my body relax because my whole body, as I said a few minutes ago, is far more sophisticated, has spent far more time being tinkered with by evolution than my human ability to think in language.

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

And, okay, so God is not a white man who lives near the planet Kolob. Okay, that is not true. Okay, that feels better. Okay. So I started following what made my body relax because my whole body, as I said a few minutes ago, is far more sophisticated, has spent far more time being tinkered with by evolution than my human ability to think in language.

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

It has a response to truth or falsehood that's more subtle and sophisticated than my intellectual knowledge. That's how I made the decision to keep my son. That's how I've made almost all my decisions. Does it make my body relax? And then does the mind come to the party and make the math work? Okay.

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

It has a response to truth or falsehood that's more subtle and sophisticated than my intellectual knowledge. That's how I made the decision to keep my son. That's how I've made almost all my decisions. Does it make my body relax? And then does the mind come to the party and make the math work? Okay.

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

It has a response to truth or falsehood that's more subtle and sophisticated than my intellectual knowledge. That's how I made the decision to keep my son. That's how I've made almost all my decisions. Does it make my body relax? And then does the mind come to the party and make the math work? Okay.

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

Mormonism says that all the American Indians were descended from a group of Israelites who came across in 600 BC in a boat to the Americas. Okay. Does the math work? What does the genetic evidence say? No, they came over the Aleutian Straits and down into the Americas.

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

Mormonism says that all the American Indians were descended from a group of Israelites who came across in 600 BC in a boat to the Americas. Okay. Does the math work? What does the genetic evidence say? No, they came over the Aleutian Straits and down into the Americas.

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

Mormonism says that all the American Indians were descended from a group of Israelites who came across in 600 BC in a boat to the Americas. Okay. Does the math work? What does the genetic evidence say? No, they came over the Aleutian Straits and down into the Americas.

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

When I was living in Utah, they excommunicated a DNA expert from the Mormon church for finding the data that said that Mormonism's claims were wrong. So something that makes my body relax where it's also logically coherent. That's the first thing. And then what you find is if you really pursue that, what is true? What is true? What is true?

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

When I was living in Utah, they excommunicated a DNA expert from the Mormon church for finding the data that said that Mormonism's claims were wrong. So something that makes my body relax where it's also logically coherent. That's the first thing. And then what you find is if you really pursue that, what is true? What is true? What is true?