THE SCIENCE OF
Changing Your Brain for the Better
We all have challenges.
The good news is that we can use the power of positive neuroplasticity to change our brain and grow inner strengths so we can be happier, more confident, and more calm — no matter what life throws our way.
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Meet Dr. Rick Hanson
Rick Hanson, PhD, is a psychologist, Senior Fellow of UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, and New York Times best-selling author. His books are available in 33 languages – with over a million copies in English alone. He has lectured at NASA, Google, Oxford, and Harvard, taught in meditation centers worldwide, and been featured on the BBC, CBS, NPR, and other major media.
Free Wednesday Talks + Meditations
Develop greater resilience, compassion, and mindfulness by joining the free online weekly meditation, talk, and discussion with Dr. Rick Hanson. These sessions draw on modern psychology, brain science, and the teachings of the Buddha.
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Books
The Being Well Podcast
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Being Well Podcast: Using Constraints to Improve Creativity, Focus, and Decision-Making with David Epstein
Forrest is joined by best-selling author David Epstein to discuss how constraints can lead to greater creativity, generativity, and, paradoxically, freedom.
Being Well Podcast: Mentalization-Based Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder with Robert Drozek
Forrest is joined by psychotherapist and author Robert Drozek to discuss mentalization-based treatment (MBT) and the tools that can help us develop more flexibility and curiosity around our assumptions.
Being Well Podcast: Why You Can’t Stop Overthinking (and What to Do about It)
In this episode of the Being Well Podcast, Dr. Rick and Forrest discuss why overthinking becomes a self-reinforcing habit, and why insight alone rarely helps.
Online Courses
Rick Hanson’s Blog
Meditations and Practices for more joy, more fulfilling relationships, and more peace of mind.
Step into the Cloud
Stressed by all the things you have to do? Seen as brick-like entities, tasks can feel heavy, oppressive, burdensome. If instead we view our tasks as clouds, tasks feel more fluid, like streams or eddies you step into, influencing or contributing as best you can, before they swirl on and become something else.
Talk + Meditation: Keys to Personal and Global Evolution with David Sloan Wilson
Break stuck patterns using evolution and mindfulness. Practical tools for real change, resilience, and a more compassionate world.
Accept It
Acceptance is the foundation of wisdom and inner peace. It is easy to accept life’s beautiful things. It is the hard things in life that are hard to accept. The sweet spot is both by accepting the fact that they are what they are.