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Meditation + Talk: The Cradle of Relationships

This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 34-minute meditation and a 57-minute talk and discussion about The Cradle of Relationships.

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Meditation: The Cradle of Relationships

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Talk: The Cradle of Relationships

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Don’t Quarrel

Who do you argue with?

The Practice:
Don’t quarrel.

Why?

It’s one thing to stick up for yourself and others. But it’s a different matter to get caught up in wrangles, contentiousness, squabbles . . . in a word: quarrels.

Similarly, it’s one thing to disagree with someone, even to the point of arguing – but it’s a different matter to get so caught up in your position that you lose sight of the bigger picture, including your relationship with the other person. Then you’re quarreling.

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Meditation + Talk: A Spacey Ecstatic Riff on Everything Is Relationship

This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 34-minute meditation and a 43-minute talk and discussion about A Spacey Ecstatic Riff on Everything Is Relationship.

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Meditation: A Spacey Ecstatic Riff on Everything Is Relationship

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Meditation + Talk: A Spacey Ecstatic Riff on Everything is Relationship

This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 34-minute meditation and a 43-minute talk and discussion about A Spacey Ecstatic Riff on Everything is Relationship.

I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join my free Wednesday Meditations – open to everyone!

Meditation: A Spacey Ecstatic Riff on Everything is Relationship

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Feed the Mouse

Got cheese?

The Practice:
Feed the mouse.

Why?

To simplify a complex process spanning 600 million years, your brain developed in ways that are loosely related to the three major stages of vertebrate evolution:

Reptile – Brainstem, focused on avoiding harmsMammal – Subcortex, focused on approaching rewardsPrimate – Neocortex, focused on attaching to “us”

Since the brain is integrated, avoiding, approaching, and attaching are accomplished by its parts working together. Nonetheless, e...

Meditation + Talk: Being Nature

This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 35-minute meditation and a 47-minute talk and discussion about Being Nature. Notes from this talk are available here.

I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join my free Wednesday Meditations – open to everyone!

Meditation: Being Nature

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See What’s Likable

What’s to like?

The Practice:
See what’s likable.

Why?

Liking feels good, plus it encourages us to approach and engage the world rather than withdraw from it.

Your brain continually tracks whether something is pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral. In essence, is it a carrot, a stick, or safely ignored? Naturally, we like – we enjoy – what’s pleasant, dislike what’s unpleasant, and with what’s neutral would get pleasant pronto.

Natural opioids – pleasure molecules – are released when you se...

Being Well Podcast: Dealing with Challenging Emotions with Mollie West Duffy

We all experience big, challenging feelings, from common emotions like uncertainty, anger, despair, and regret, to difficult experiences like the pains of comparison, burnout, and perfectionism. On today’s episode of Being Well Podcast, Forrest is joined by the wonderful author, coach, and content creator Mollie West Duffy to explore how we can accept those big feelings, learn to live alongside them, and develop tools that help us deal with them more effectively.

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Being Well Podcast: How to Use Your Diagnosis (Without It Using You)

Receiving a diagnosis can be emotionally challenging, and leave a person with a lot of understandable questions: What does this mean? What do I do now? How do I relate to this?

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On this episode Dr. Rick and Forrest Hanson explore what a diagnosis is, how the diagnostic process works, the limitations of diagnosing someone, dealing with the ...

Being Well Podcast: Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy with Dr. Albert Garcia-Romeu

There’s been an explosion of interest in psychedelics over the last 10 years, and phrases like “psychedelic-assisted therapy” have gone from the relative fringes of the mental health conversation to bursting into the mainstream. Alongside a great deal of hype is a growing body of research revealing the potential of substances like psilocybin and MDMA as novel treatments for depression, addiction, and PTSD.

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