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February 6, 2018
See Deep Wants
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, what are the deepest wants of all?
The Practice:
See deep wants.
Why?
I did my Ph.D. dissertation by videotaping 20 mother-toddler pairs and analyzing what happened when the mom offered an alternative to a problematic want (“not the chainsaw, sweetie, how about this red truck”). Hundreds of bleary eyed hours later, I found that offering alternatives reduced child negative emotion and increased cooperation with the parent.
Pretty interesting (at least to me, both...
February 5, 2018
Being Well Podcast: Enjoying Life
On today’s episode of the Being Well Podcast, Dr. Rick Hanson explains why enjoying life is both easy to dismiss and surprisingly hard to do. Particularly, he explores how we can authentically find enjoyable moments even during very difficult times in our lives.
0:35 – Why is enjoying life a strength to develop?
2:00 – Enjoyment and the brain
3:15 – The importance of key experiences.
4:30 – Our cultural pitfalls around enjoyment.
7:30 – How do we grow strengths? The problem with having a “st...
February 4, 2018
Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength & Happiness
An interview with Rick Hanson by Fiona Douglas-Crampton
Psychologist and New York Times bestselling author Rick Hanson became aware of unhappiness in his family and in the world at a young age. Now a Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC, Dr. Hanson turned to psychology and brain science for answers and realized that if you can change your brain, you can change your life. In his new book, Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness (co-authored...
Grow an unshakable core of calm, strength & happiness
An interview with Rick Stanton Hanson by Fiona Douglas-Crampton
The holiday season often brings additional stress. The days are getting shorter and colder and we have to cope with multiple demands to make our loved ones happy: Christmas shopping, parties, cooking, cleaning and more.
Add a growing sense of helpless- ness in the face of climate change and negative world news and it can seem an impossible task to maintain a sense of personal happiness, well- being and calmness. Negativity and s...
February 2, 2018
Ashes and Snow by Gregory Colbert
Rick’s Picks is a series of posts highlighting the very best content online.
Gregory Colbert’s Ashes and Snow feature film captures extraordinary moments of contact between people and animals as seen through the lens of the artist’s camera on more than thirty expeditions to some of the earth’s most remote places. Written, directed, produced, and filmed by Gregory Colbert, himself.
View this magnificent video here:
Ashes and Snow by Gregory Colbert from Gregory Colbert on Vimeo.
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January 30, 2018
Accept It
What are you resisting?
The Practice:
Accept it.
Why?
As general clusters that each include a number of specific methods, my Top 5 types of practices (all tied for first place) are:
Be mindful Love Take in the good Go green Open outThe practices of “go green” helps you get out of the brain’s fight-or-flight, Reactive, “red zone” setting and instead, engage life from its recover-and-refuel, Responsive, “green zone” setting.
In this JOT, we’ll enter into the fifth cluster – open out – by w...
January 29, 2018
Being Well Podcast: Acceptance
On this episode of the Being Well Podcast, Dr. Hanson and Forrest focus on the importance of acceptance. Particularly, they talk about how an authentic moment of acceptance can be a catalyst for positive growth.
0:30: The importance of facing what’s true.
1:45: Feeling acceptance along with something else.
2:40: Using acceptance as a catalyst for creating change.
4:10: How can I turn “acceptance” into something useful?
5:25: What are we accepting?/Aspects of acceptance.
8:30: Can we accept e...
January 28, 2018
Knowing for yourself what matters
Rick talks about the insight into the nature of all experience.
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January 26, 2018
Doctors Without Borders
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Doctors Without Borders help people worldwide where the need is greatest, delivering emergency medical aid to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from health care.
Check out their amazing stories here: http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/
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January 24, 2018
Be the Body
Where do you live?
The Practice:
Be the body.
Why?
As a kid, I was really out of touch with my body. I hardly noticed it most of the time, and when I did, I prodded it like a mule to do a better job of hauling “me” – the head – around.
This approach helped me soldier through some tough times. But there were costs. Many pleasures were numbed, or they flew over – actually, under – my head. I didn’t feel deeply engaged with life, like I was peering at the world through a hole in a fence. I push...
