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Five Questions When Someone Upsets You

Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled Five Questions When Someone Upsets You.

More information on the San Rafael Meditation group can be found here.

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QUIZ: What’s Your Expression Style?

As profoundly social primates, we have a normal longing for others to find the buried treasure inside of us – but we must express ourselves for this to happen.

Find out how comfortable you are expressing yourself, with this short quiz from my Foundations of Well-Being program:
https://fwb.rickhanson.net/quizzes/whats-your-expression-style

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The Last Question

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The Last Question: A Short Story from Isaac Asimov

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5 Tips to Wire for Compassion

During this time, we could all use more understanding and relating to one another. Did you know that requires a healthy prefrontal cortex (PFC) otherwise we will biologically default to our fight-or-flight response? It’s simply in the way we are wired. Relating to one another with understanding and compassion triggers different parts of our brains.

In today’s busy world, we are living in a time of transition and a sometimes-challenging call to higher levels of relating to one another with co...

Rest

Busy, busy?

The Practice:
Rest.

Why?

This practice is definitely a case of teaching what you need to learn: I’ve been working through a big bucket of tasks lately with little chance to rest. (I console myself with knowing that the bucket is emptying a lot faster than it’s filling with new tasks.)

Sometimes you can really feel what you need to do by feeling what’s happening for you when you don’t. “Don’t,” that is: ease up, unwind, recharge, put your feet up, take a load off, just chill. Be...

The Fermi Paradox

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Read this incredible summary of the Fermi Paradox from Wait But Why.

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Undeceived By The Inner Ad Agency

Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled Undeceived By The Inner Ad Agency.

More information on the San Rafael Meditation group can be found here.

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QUIZ: How do you Contribute to the World?

You offer many things to others each day in ways large and small. Sometimes people feel good about their contributions into the world – and sometimes they don’t, feeling anxious, stressed, or inadequate.

Learn how you feel about your own contributions, with this short quiz from my Foundations of Well-Being program:
https://fwb.rickhanson.net/quizzes/how-do-you-contribute-to-the-world

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Robert Royston and Jill DeMarco: Swing Dance

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Robert Royston and Jill DeMarco “killin’ it” in Champion Strictly Semi-Finals at SwingDiego 2011.

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Beware Anger

Beware Anger

Have you been wronged?

The Practice

Beware anger.

Why

Anger is tricky.

On the one hand, anger – feeling annoyed, irritated, resentful, fed up, mad, outraged, or enraged – alerts us to real threats, real injuries, and real wrongs that need correcting, and it energizes and fuels us to do something about them. In my family growing up, my parents had a monopoly on anger. So I suppressed my own, along with a lot of other feelings, and it’s been a long journey to reclaim my interior,...