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January 17, 2021
Being Well Podcast: Pandemic Trauma with Dr. Bruce Perry
Dr. Bruce Perry joins the podcast to explore how we can limit the long-term impact of stressful events, and heal from past traumatic experiences.
About Our Guest: Dr. Bruce Perry is one of the world’s leading experts on childhood trauma, and his clinical research and practice focuses on examining the long-term effects of trauma in children, adolescents, and adults. He is the Senior Fellow of T...
January 14, 2021
Meditation + Talk: Equanimity
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 33-minute guided meditation and 44-minute talk and discussion.
I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join my free Wednesday Meditations – open to everyone!
Meditation: Equanimity Talk: EquanimityMeditation + Talk: Emotional Balance No Matter What Life Throws You
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 33-minute guided meditation and 45-minute talk and discussion.
I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join my free Wednesday Meditations – open to everyone!
Meditation: Emotional Balance No Matter What Life Throws You Talk: Emotional Balance No Matter What Life Throws You ...January 12, 2021
Step into the Cloud
Juggling bricks?
The Practice:
Step into the cloud.
Why?
I had a lightbulb moment recently: I was feeling stressed about all the stuff I had to do (you probably know the feeling). After this went on for a while, I stepped back and kind of watched my mind, and could see that I was thinking of these various tasks as things, like big rocks that were rolling down a hill toward me and which needed to be handled, lifted, moved, fended off, or broken into pebbles. As soon as I dealt with on...
January 10, 2021
Being Well Podcast: Being More, Doing Less
We’re somehow both more efficient than ever before, and, at the same time, busier than ever before. All of the many ways that we’ve found to optimize our performance has led to much more “doing,” and not nearly as much “being.” Today Forrest and I explore how we can get more in touch with being, and how by focusing more on “being” we might even be able to “do” more than ever before.
Support th...
January 8, 2021
Meditation + Talk: Learning to Care . . . and Not to Care
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 34-minute guided meditation and 51-minute talk and discussion.
I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join my free Wednesday Meditations – open to everyone!
Meditation: Learning to Care . . . and Not to Care
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Talk: Learning to Care . . . and Not to Care
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January 5, 2021
Being Well Podcast Guided Practice: Achieving Your New Year’s Resolutions
What do you want to achieve in 2021? In this short episode, Dr. Rick Hanson walks you through a guided practice focused on helping you reach your goals.
What do you want to achieve in 2021? In this short episode, Dr. Rick Hanson walks you through a guided practice focused on helping you achieve your goals.
From Dr. Hanson: The Foundations of Well-Being brings together the lessons of a lifet...
January 4, 2021
Meditation + Talk: Rested in the Qualities of Being
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 33-minute guided meditation and 52 -minute talk and discussion.
I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join my free Wednesday Meditations – open to everyone!
Meditation: Rested in the Qualities of Being
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Talk: Rested in the Qualities of Being
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January 3, 2021
Being Well Podcast: The Optimism Bias and Influencing Other People with Dr. Tali Sharot
Are people optimistic by nature? And how can we use that answer to influence our behavior, or the behavior of other people? Today Forrest and I are joined by Dr. Tali Sharot to explore the optimism bias, how optimism can exist alongside negativity, and how we can influence others more effectively.
About our Guest: Dr. Sharot is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London...
December 29, 2020
Find Your North Star
Where are you headed?
The Practice:
Find your North Star.
Why?
I did a meditation retreat (at Spirit Rock, wonderful place, including for workshops). One evening as we walked out of the hall after the last sit, I was feeling rattled and discombobulated. (One of the benefits of a retreat – though it can be uncomfortable – is that it stirs up of the sediments of your psyche, which can muddy your mental waters for a while.)
I looked up at the stars shining brightly in the cold clear night, and so...
