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January 6, 2023
Meditation + Talk: What Matters, and What Doesn’t
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 35-minute meditation, a 48-minute talk, and a discussion about What Matters, and What Doesn’t.
I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join my free Wednesday Meditations – open to everyone!
Meditation: What Matters, and What Doesn’t Talk: What Matters, and What Doesn’t ...
January 1, 2023
Being Well Podcast: Why Don’t We Get Better?
This is the Being Well podcast’s five-year anniversary, and over that time we’ve all grown and changed a great deal. And even so, for many people some things remain very difficult to change, and it’s easy to feel like even after all this time you’re still pushing the same old rocks up the same old hills.
On today’s episode Forrest and Dr. Rick explore why we struggle to change that which matters most to us, how much change is realistically possible, wh...
Meditation + Talk: Most Things Fall Apart Eventually, Yet Some Things Endure
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 33-minute meditation, a 47-minute talk, and a discussion about Most Things Fall Apart Eventually, Yet Some Things Endure.
I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join my free Wednesday Meditations – open to everyone!
Meditation: Most Things Fall Apart Eventually, Yet Some Things Endure Talk: Most Things Fall Apart ...December 27, 2022
See Your Part
What’s your own role?
The Practice:
See your part.
Why?
In situations or relationships with any kind of difficulty – tension, feeling hurt, conflicts, mismatches of wants . . . the usual crud – it’s natural to focus on what others have done that’s problematic.
This could be useful for a while: it can energize you, highlight what you most care about, and help you see more clearly what you’d like others to change.
But there is also a cost: fixating on the harms (actual or imagined) done ...
December 25, 2022
Being Well Podcast: How to Reinvent Yourself (in 2023)
We’ve come to the end of another year, and it’s a good time to take stock and consider how we’d like to grow and change during our next trip around the sun. In this episode, Forrest and Dr. Rick focus on what supports us and what holds us back from reinventing ourselves and becoming all we wish to be.
They talk about how they’d like to change over the next year, different approaches to new year’s resolutions, do a little digging around in Forrest’s ps...
December 24, 2022
Meditation + Talk: The Metta Sutta – and Compassion’s Shadow
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 34-minute meditation, a 46-minute talk, and a discussion about The Metta Sutta – and Compassion’s Shadow.
I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join my free Wednesday Meditations – open to everyone!
Meditation: The Metta Sutta – and Compassion’s Shadow Talk: The Metta Sutta – and Compassion’s Shadow ...December 19, 2022
Being Well Podcast: The Science of Stress with Dr. Elissa Epel
We all think of stress as “bad” for you, but what if some forms of stress could actually help us grow and change for the better? On today’s episode Forrest and Dr. Rick are joined by Dr. Elissa Epel, a psychologist and leading stress researcher, to explore the science behind the stress response.
They explore different forms of stress, what separates “good” stress from “bad” stress, how we can take advantage of good stress, and dealing with existential...
December 16, 2022
Meditation + Talk: How to Disentangle Yourself in Challenging Relationships
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 34-minute meditation, a 51-minute talk, and a discussion about How to Disentangle Yourself in Challenging Relationships.
I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join my free Wednesday Meditations – open to everyone!
Meditation: How to Disentangle Yourself in Challenging Relationships Talk: How to Disentangle Yourse...December 13, 2022
Twelve Good Things 2022
Each year I use an issue of the Just One Thing newsletter to offer Twelve Good Things that I think are really wonderful and worth your attention.
May you and those you love and, in fact, the whole wide world be truly well, truly happy, and truly at peace.
This year the Global Compassion Coalition launched with a mission to build a world based on compassion and justice by changing the way we conduct politics, business and the economy, healthcare, and science. Join the movement to inspir...Being Well Podcast: Responding to Criticism, and Accepting the Way Things Are
Criticism is an unavoidable part of life. But even though we’re all going to be criticized from time to time, many of us spend much of our lives living in fear of criticism. Then, on the flip side, we’re all critics ourselves. We’ve all been in situations that aren’t quite what we want them to be – so we need to either do something to change them or accept them as they are.
On this episode Dr. Rick and Forrest focus on how we can get better at receivi...
