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March 20, 2016
QUIZ: How Strong is Your Center?
In relationships, it’s natural to join with others, but it’s also fundamentally important to have a strong sense of your own autonomy. By strengthening your sense of “me” – in effect, establishing a kind of secure base inside yourself, – you will be more able to explore “we” out in the world.
Find out how strong your own sense of “me” is with this short quiz from my Foundations of Well-Being program:
https://fwb.rickhanson.net/quizzes/how-strong-is-your-center
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March 18, 2016
Rick’s Picks: Collaborating with a 4-year-old
Rick’s Picks is a series of posts highlighting the very best content online.
One day, while her 4-year-old daughter was happily distracted in marker drawings, a mother decided to risk pulling out a new sketchbook she had special ordered. The results are a unique an collaborative masterpiece! See the full article here: http://busymockingbird.com/2013/08/27...
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March 16, 2016
Already Happy Now
Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled Already Happy Now.
More information on the San Rafael Mediation group can be found here.
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March 13, 2016
Gretchen Rubin Interview on Gratitude
Discover some simple yet powerful ways to become happier in this conversation with Gretchen Rubin—author of The Happiness Project. In this Foundations of Well-Being interview, Gretchen gets very practical and shares an easy path towards greater well-being, from the first things you do in the morning to what you reflect on before bed at night.
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March 11, 2016
Rick’s Picks: Patrick Stewart Gives Passionate Response to Question At Comicpalooza 2013
Rick’s Picks is a series of posts highlighting the very best content online.
Sir Patrick Stewart answers a very deep question at Comicpalooza 2013.
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March 9, 2016
Presence, Letting Go, and Love
Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled Presence, Letting Go, and Love.
More information on the San Rafael Mediation group can be found here.
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March 6, 2016
QUIZ: Can You Calm Yourself?
“Life is wiggly,” as Alan Watts put it, and the parasympathetic wing of the nervous system helps us ride out the wiggles – and bumps – of everyday living. This ancient part of your nervous system is soothing, calming, and refueling.
Find out how skillful you are at activating this to replace stress, anxiety, and frustration, with relaxation, centeredness, and inner peace with this short quiz from my Foundations of Well-Being program:
https://fwb.rickhanson.net/quizzes/can-you-calm-yourself
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February 28, 2016
James Doty Interview on Service
“What happens so many times in our lives is, we walk by people – we don’t really look at them. When you take the time to look, to truly see, then there’s this explosion of opportunity to care and have an impact. The goodness you get back from that is so powerful, it makes you want to repeat that.
We know this is a reality because it’s based in science. There have been studies that have been done that show that when somebody is of service to others in a selfless matter – it has a huge impact...
February 21, 2016
QUIZ: Can You Control Your Inner Critic?
Do you have a sense of a strong part of yourself that soothes, calms, encourages, and sticks up for you? Or does it feel like your inner critic – finding fault with you, minimizing your pain and your needs, tearing you down – has the upper hand?
Find out how skillful you are at controlling your inner critic with this short quiz from my Foundations of Well-Being program:
https://fwb.rickhanson.net/quizzes/can-you-control-your-inner-critic
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February 20, 2016
Be Amazed
Are you paying attention?
The Practice:
Be amazed.
Why?
Last night, stressing about undone tasks, I glanced in a mirror and saw my t-shirt, with its picture of a galaxy and a little sign sticking up out of its outer swirls, saying “you are here.” A joke gift from my wife, I’ve worn this shirt many times – yet for once it stopped me in my tracks. In William Blake’s phrase, the doors of perception popped open and it really hit me: yes we are actually here, off to the edge of a vast floating w...
