Rick Hanson's Blog, page 35
August 10, 2021
Be Mind Full of Good
What’s in your mind?
The Practice:
Be mind full of good.
Why?
It’s kind of amazing: right now, what you think and feel, enjoy and suffer, is changing your brain. The brain is the organ that learns, designed by evolution to be changed by our experiences: what scientists call experience-dependent neuroplasticity.
Neurons that fire together, wire together. This means that each one of us has the power to use the mind to change the brain to change the mind for the better. To benefit oneself ...
August 8, 2021
Being Well Podcast: Finding and Maintaining Fulfillment
Fulfillment is like the climate rather than the weather. Over time, we can shift our inner climate toward greater wellbeing. Then, when the storms do come, they aren’t as severe.
– Rick Hanson, Ph.D.
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WATCH https://youtu.be/zUB-79TB7Po We’re all searching for fulfillment in one way or another. Today Dr. R...
August 6, 2021
Meditation + Talk: Letting Go of Toxic Self-Doubt and Trusting Yourself
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 34-minute meditation and 46-minute talk and discussion about Letting Go of Toxic Self-Doubt and Trusting Yourself.
I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join my free Wednesday Meditations – open to everyone!
Meditation: Letting Go of Toxic Self-Doubt and Trusting Yourself Talk: Letting Go of Toxic S...August 1, 2021
Being Well Podcast: How to Change For Good with Dr. Katy Milkman
Though there’s no lack of advice out there, changing in lasting ways is hard. Today Forrest and Dr. Rick Hanson are joined by Dr. Katy Milkman, an expert in the science of change, to explore how we can build better habits, sustain motivation, and change for good.
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WATCH https://youtu.be/mkxBO6B8sKY About ...
July 27, 2021
Be at Peace with the Pain of Others
Can you stay open to the pain of others?
The Practice:
Be at peace with the pain of others.
Why?
Humans are an empathic, compassionate, and loving species, so it is natural to feel sad, worried, or fiery about the troubles and pain of other people. (And about those of cats and dogs and other animals, but I’ll focus on human beings here.)
Long ago, the Buddha spoke of the “first dart” of unavoidable physical pain. Given our hardwired nature as social beings, when those we care about are ...
July 25, 2021
Being Well Podcast: How to Become Less Resentful
In this episode, Forrest and Dr. Rick Hanson explore resentment: where it comes from, what it does, and what we can do about it.
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WATCH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W43ddIQKrAM When we’re hurt in our relationships, it’s normal to experience resentment. We don’t talk about resentment very much, we’re mor...
July 22, 2021
Meditation + Talk: Accepting Yourself and Your Needs
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 36-minute meditation and 54-minute talk and discussion about Accepting Yourself and Your Needs.
I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join my free Wednesday Meditations – open to everyone!
Meditation: Accepting Yourself and Your Needs Talk: Accepting Yourself and Your Needs ...July 20, 2021
Be Amazed
Are you seeing this?
The Practice:
Be Amazed.
Why?
As we move into 2019, here are my top five inner practices for helping this year be a good one for you and others (click the links to see the first four):
Drop the stone Let it flow Learn as you go “Us” all “thems” Be amazedBy “be amazed,” I mean staying open to a sense of freshness, wonder, gratitude, and awe, instead of taking things for granted or getting numb from the pressure of work and life.
While recently stressing about so...
July 19, 2021
Being Well Podcast: Uncovering Your Natural Goodness with Tara Brach
Learn how to “trust the gold:” recognizing and appreciating our essential human goodness, while resting in the key refuges of truth, love, and freedom, with Tara Brach on the Being Well Podcast with Dr. Rick Hanson.
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WATCH We receive so many messages from our culture meant to divide us from one another or...
July 15, 2021
Meditation + Talk: Feeling Calm and Strong in Your Relationships
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 33-minute meditation and 44-minute talk and discussion about Feeling Calm and Strong in Your Relationships.
I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join my free Wednesday Meditations – open to everyone!
Meditation: Feeling Calm and Strong in Your Relationships Talk: Feeling Calm and Strong in Yo...
