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Meditation + Talk: Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness – Embodied, Trauma-Informed Approach to Mindfulness Meditation & Self-Healing

This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 36-minute guided meditation and 44-minute talk and discussion, with guest teacher Fleet Maull.

Fleet is wonderful. His background includes serving time in prison as a young man, and his own journey of healing and transformation, grounded in Tibetan Buddhism, is the foundation for his work with Radical Responsibility. He is an author, meditation teacher, management consultant, trainer, and executive coach who facilitates deep transformation for ...

Being Well Podcast: Being with Grief with Dr. Joanne Cacciatore

In this conversation from the Life After COVID Summit, Dr. Joanne Cacciatore joins Forrest to help us put the past in perspective, and relate in healthier and more whole ways to the many things we’ve lost over the past year.

Last weekend Dr. Rick Hanson and Forrest Hanson were joined by 11 world-class experts for a FREE three-day online event to explore how we...

Water Your Fruit Tree

What would bear lots of fruit?

The Practice:
Water your fruit tree.

Why?

My wife and kids tease me that the title of this practice is corny – and it is. Still, I like it. If you don’t nourish the things that nourish you, they wither away like a plant in dry stony ground.

Looking to the year ahead for you – a year that can begin whenever you want – what’s one key thing that will bear lots of fruit for you if you take care of it?

There is usually one thing – or two or three – that you know in your...

Being Well Podcast: Dealing with Life’s Disruptions

Today we’re focusing on a topic that’s been particularly important over the last year: how we can deal more effectively with life’s major disruptions. This includes recovering from setbacks, finding the opportunities, and even getting the most out of disruptions that are positive.

Key Topics:

0:55: “One mistake after another”

1:55: Life After COVID Summit

5:30...

Meditation + Talk: Anxiety – and the Noble Truth of Suffering

This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 32-minute guided meditation and 47-minute talk and discussion.

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

Meditation: Anxiety – and the Noble Truth of Suffering
 

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Talk: Anxiety – and the Noble Truth of Suffering
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Meditation + Talk: Why We Suffer and What We Can Do About It

This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 32-minute guided meditation and 47-minute talk and discussion.

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

Meditation: Why We Suffer and What We Can Do About It 

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Talk: Why We Suffer and What We Can Do About It ...

Trust In Love

Do you believe in love?

The Practice:
Trust in love.

Why?

Take a breath right now, and notice how abundant the air is, full of life-giving oxygen offered freely by trees and other green growing things. You can’t see air, but it’s always available for you.

Love is a lot like the air. It may be hard to see – but it’s in you and all around you.

In the press of life – dealing with hassles in personal relationships and bombarded with news of war and other conflicts – it’s easy to lose sight of love, ...

Being Well Podcast: Internal Family Systems Therapy with Susan McConnell

While we might experience ourselves as being one unified self most of the time, we all have different characters, different “parts,” running around inside our heads – and our relationship with some parts is better than others. Today’s guest, Susan McConnell, joins Forrest to explore Somatic Internal Family Systems, a powerful form of therapy that helps us bring those parts together as a unified self.

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Meditation + Talk: Original Love – and the Path of Awakening

This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 3-minute guided meditation and 4-minute talk and discussion, with guest teacher Henry Shukman.

Henry is a writer, poet and Zen teacher. Originally from the UK, and a long-time resident of New Mexico, he is the guiding teacher at Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe, and co-director of the Rio Grande Mindfulness Institute. He is the author of One Blade of Grass, and has written semi-regularly for Tricycle and the New York Times.

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Stay Right When You’re Wronged

There’s been mistreatment or injustice – now what?

The Practice:
Stay right when you’re wronged.

Why?

It’s easy to treat people well when they treat you well. The real test is when they treat you badly. (Much of what I say here applies to concerns about injustice or mistreatment that threatens or happens to others, from someone bullying a child to an oppressive government, but I will focus on the personal level.)

Think of times you’ve been truly wronged, in small ways or big ones. Mayb...