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December 4, 2015
Rick’s Picks: An Incredible Ping Pong Rally
Rick’s Picks is a series of posts highlighting the very best content online.
Check out this incredible ping pong rally!
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December 2, 2015
Tend to the Causes
Tend to the causes.
Why?Let’s say you want to get apples from a tree of your own. So you go to a nursery and pick a good sapling, bring it home, and plant it carefully with lots of fertilizer in rich soil. Then you water it regularly, pick the bugs off, and prune it. If you keep tending to your tree, in a few years it will likely give you lots of delicious apples.
But can you make it produce apples? Nope, you can’t. All you can do is tend to the...
November 29, 2015
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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November 27, 2015
Water Your Fruit Tree
What would bear lots of fruit?
The Practice:
Water your fruit tree.
Why?
My wife and kids tease me that the title of this practice is corny – and it is. Still, I like it. If you don’t nourish the things that nourish you, they wither away like a plant in dry stony ground.
Looking to the year ahead for you – a year that can begin whenever you want – what’s one key thing that will bear lots of fruit for you if you take care of it?
There is usually one thing – or two or three – that you know in y...
Rick’s Picks: Living Simply in a Dumpster
Rick’s Picks is a series of posts highlighting the very best content online.
James Hamblin writes for the Atlantic about one professor who left his home for a 36-square-foot open-air box, and is happier for it.
It makes one think: how much does a person really need?
Read the full article here:http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/09/the-simple-life-in-a-dumpster/379947/
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November 25, 2015
Recognizing Stillness
Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled Recognizing Stillness.
More information on the San Rafael Mediation group can be found here.
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November 22, 2015
Intimacy: Me and We Video Clip
In relationships, it’s natural to join with others, but it’s also fundamentally important to have a strong sense of your own autonomy. In this clip from my Foundations of Well-Being program I explain how you can create a secure base of “me” inside yourself to be more able to explore “we” out in the world.
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November 20, 2015
Rick’s Picks: Questioning the Universe with Stephen Hawking
Rick’s Picks is a series of posts highlighting the very best content online.
In keeping with the theme of TED2008, professor Stephen Hawking asks some Big Questions about our universe — How did the universe begin? How did life begin? Are we alone? — and discusses how we might go about answering them.
Check it out on Ted: http://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_hawking_asks_big_questions_about_the_universe
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November 18, 2015
See the Person Behind the Eyes
Who is behind the mask?
The Practice:
See the person behind the eyes.
Why?
Most of us wear a kind of mask, a persona that hides our deepest thoughts and feelings, and presents a polished, controlled face to the world.
To be sure, a persona is a good thing to have. For example, meetings at work, holidays with the in-laws, or a first date are usually not the best time to spill your guts. Just because you’re selective about what you reveal to the world does not mean you’re insincere; phoniness i...
November 15, 2015
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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