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December 27, 2015
QUIZ: Do You Have Grit?
Can you be as the occasion demands? How determined, patient, persistent, and (as needed) feral are you?
Find out how much Grit you have, with this short quiz from my Foundations of Well-Being program:
https://fwb.rickhanson.net/gritquiz
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December 25, 2015
Rick’s Picks: I Took The Dalai Lama To A Ski Resort And He Told Me The Meaning Of Life
Rick’s Picks is a series of posts highlighting the very best content online.
Douglas Preston writes for slate.com about his ski trip with the Dalai Lama:
As we finished, a young waitress with tangled, dirty-blond hair and a beaded headband began clearing our table. She stopped to listen to the conversation and finally sat down, abandoning her work. After a while, when there was a pause, she spoke to the Dalai Lama. “You didn’t like your cookie?”
“Not hungry, thank you.”
“Can I, um, ask a ques...
December 23, 2015
Not So Hard on Yourself
Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled Not So Hard on Yourself.
More information on the San Rafael Mediation group can be found here.
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December 20, 2015
Jack Kornfield Interview on Mindfulness
“We all have needs, we all have loneliness, we all have a certain measure of longing that’s unmet – and it’s not that there’s something wrong with us, it’s just one part of us. You can witness these different experiences from a space of loving awareness, and you become wise, and kind.” -Jack Kornfield
In this clip from my Foundations of Well-Being interview with Jack Kornfield, you can discover how to develop the willingness and capacity to open to your experiences without being overwhelmed b...
December 18, 2015
Rick’s Picks: Inside an Orbital Laboratory
Rick’s Picks is a series of posts highlighting the very best content online.
In her final days as Commander of the International Space Station, Sunita Williams of NASA recorded an extensive tour of the orbital laboratory and downlinked the video on Nov. 18, just hours before she, cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency departed in their Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft for a landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan. The tour includes scenes of e...
December 16, 2015
Drop The Case
Who are you prosecuting?
The Practice:
Drop the case.
Why?
Lately I’ve been thinking about a kind of “case” that’s been running in my mind about someone in my extended family. The case is a combination of feeling hurt and mistreated, critique of the other person, irritation with others who haven’t supported me, views about what should happen that hasn’t, and implicit taking-things-personally.
In other words, the usual mess.
It’s not that I have not been mistreated – actually, I have been – n...
December 13, 2015
QUIZ: Do You Know Your Purpose?
We’re pulled in lots of different directions these days – so knowing your clear priorities is important – otherwise the whole world will set your life plan for you.
Find out how clear you are on your own purpose with this short quiz from my Foundations of Well-Being program:
https://fwb.rickhanson.net/quizzes/do-you-know-your-purpose
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December 11, 2015
Rick’s Picks: Gratitude with Louie Schwartzberg at TEDxSF
Rick’s Picks is a series of posts highlighting the very best content online.
Nature’s beauty can be easily missed — but not through Louie Schwartzberg‘s lens. His stunning time-lapse photography, accompanied by powerful words from Benedictine monk Brother David Steindl-Rast, serves as a meditation on being grateful for every day.
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December 9, 2015
Accepting and Alrightness Undermines Craving
Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled Accepting and Alrightness Undermines Craving.
More information on the San Rafael Mediation group can be found here.
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December 6, 2015
Paul Gilbert Interview on Confidence
“A lot of what happens with loss of confidence, is that we undermine whatever confidence we may have. Humans have an amazing capacity to monitor everything – and that can begin to cause you a lot of trouble – because you’re monitoring that there’s a problem, rather than monitoring that you’re okay. So if learn to acknowledge your monitoring without letting it take over, you stop under-mining your confidence, and then self-confidence will grow.”
In my Foundations of Well-Being interview with P...
