Rick Hanson's Blog, page 100
March 30, 2015
Questions About Compassion
“How do I develop an inner protector?”
“You’ve said that love and compassion can combat anxiety. How do they do that—and how can we access those feelings more readily, particularly when we feel threatened?”
“Once an uncomfortable pattern has developed, bad expectations seem to be a self-fulfilling prophecy for some folks – is there a basic first step to break the pattern?”
You can find the answers to these andalmost 100 other questions on 20+ different topics on my FAQs page. Perhaps I’ve ans...
March 26, 2015
The Mind That Siezes and Suffers
Here is the latest talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled The Mind That Siezes and Suffers. More information on the San Rafael Mediation group can be found at http://www.rickhanson.net/teaching/me....
The post The Mind That Siezes and Suffers appeared first on Dr. Rick Hanson.
March 23, 2015
How to Stick with Your Virtues and Good Purposes – Motivating Reflections
In this blog post I offer a few motivating reflections to help you stick to your virtues and good purposes:
Reflect on the benefits to yourself of living from a virtue or purpose; do things to keep those benefits in mind (e.g., pictures of healthy people on the refrigerator, a list of reasons on a bathroom mirror for lightening up and not sweating the small stuff). Reflect on the benefits to others of living from a virtue or purpose; really try to have positive feelings about those benefits,...March 20, 2015
Friday Favorite
Ira Glass Speaking on being creative and why it takes so long to reach the level you will finally achieve.
The post Friday Favorite appeared first on Dr. Rick Hanson.
March 19, 2015
Reducing Craving by Taking in Core Interpersonal Supplies
Here is the latest talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled Reducing Craving by Taking in Core Interpersonal Supplies. More information on the San Rafael Mediation group can be found at http://www.rickhanson.net/teaching/me....
The post Reducing Craving by Taking in Core Interpersonal Supplies appeared first on Dr. Rick Hanson.
March 16, 2015
What is Mindful Presence?
This article is about developing the skill of mindful presence.
Let’s unpack those two words, mindful presence.
Mindfulness is simply a clear, non-judgmental awareness of your inner and outer worlds. In particular, it’s an awareness of the flow of experience in your inner world – an alert observing of your thoughts, emotions, body sensations, desires, memories, images, personality dynamics, attitudes, etc.
When you are mindful of something, you are observing it, not caught up in it and not id...
March 12, 2015
Secure at the Edge of Now
Here is the latest talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled Secure at the Edge of Now. More information on the San Rafael Mediation group can be found at http://www.rickhanson.net/teaching/me....
The post Secure at the Edge of Now appeared first on Dr. Rick Hanson.
March 9, 2015
Three Refuges in This Undependable World
Here is the latest talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It’s titled Three Refuges in This Undependable World. More information on the San Rafael Mediation group can be found at http://www.rickhanson.net/teaching/me....
The post Three Refuges in This Undependable World appeared first on Dr. Rick Hanson.
Cultivating Happiness
I had the pleasure of being interviewed on the Ask Dr. Nandi Show on Cultivating Happiness.
I hope you enjoy it!
When viewing, please enter password: nandi
Ask Dr. Nandi Cultivating Happiness – 361 from Ask Dr. Nandi on Vimeo.
The post Cultivating Happiness appeared first on Dr. Rick Hanson.
March 2, 2015
The Realm of Giving and Generosity
The specific meaning of “dana” is giving, which is related to the quality of “caga” (in Pali), or generosity. The one involves doing, while the other involves being.
While this distinction is useful in its comprehensiveness, in actuality generosity and giving, being and doing, are intertwined and inextricable. Being is itself a kind of doing, as you cannot help but radiate certain qualities out into the world. And every doing – at each endlessly disappearing and regenerating instant of NOW – i...
