We explore the various roles we play in life, how we select our roles, how familiar roles can keep us trapped in old patterns, enactments and triangulation, and how we can exit unhealthy systems.
Rick Hanson
Author / Psychologist
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Biography
Rick Hanson, Ph.D. is a psychologist, Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, and New York Times best-selling author. His seven books have been published in 33 languages, and include Making Great Relationships, Neurodharma, Resilient, Hardwiring Happiness, Just One Thing, Buddha’s Brain, and Mother Nurture – with over a million copies in English alone. He's the founder of the Global Compassion Coalition and the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, as well as the co-host of the Being Well Podcast – which has been downloaded over 15 million times. His free newsletters have over 260,000 subscribers and his online programs have scholarships available for those in need. He’s lectured at NASA, Google, Oxford, and Harvard. An expert on positive neuroplasticity, his work has been featured on CBS, NPR, the BBC, and other major media. He began meditating in 1974 and has taught in meditation centers worldwide. He and his wife live in Northern California and have two adult children. He loves the wilderness and taking a break from emails.
Articles
Being Well Podcast: Authentically Developing Self-Worth
We talk about self-worth vs. self-esteem, what causes people to lack self-worth, Rick’s personal story of developing a true sense of self-worth, and why more self-worth probably won’t turn you into a narcissistic a**hole.
Meditation + Talk: Four Ways to Help Yourself in Challenging Relationships
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Four Ways to Help Yourself in Challenging Relationships.
Being Well Podcast: Deepening Practice, Embracing Growth, and Becoming Lighter with Yung Pueblo
Yung Pueblo joins Forrest to explore how we can enrich our personal practice, refine the mind, break old patterns, relax the self, and feel lighter than we were before.
Meditation + Talk: Letting Go of Problematic Beliefs in Your Relationships
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Letting Go of Problematic Beliefs in Your Relationships.
Key Skills Under Pressure
Dr. Rick Hanson discusses some of the key skills we need when under pressure and how to use them when dealing with daily challenges.
The Benefits of Mindfulness
Why do we care about being mindful? Dr. Rick Hanson explains the many benefits of mindfulness on our brain and our life.
Being Well Podcast: How to Forgive Yourself
We explore forgiveness, including common myths and misunderstandings about forgiveness, the difference between healthy and unhealthy remorse, coming to terms with what we’ve done, and achieving (self-)forgiveness.
Meditation + Talk: Skillful and Unskillful Patience in Your Relationships
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Skillful and Unskillful Patience in Your Relationships
From Many to Many: Forming the Compassionate Groups That Can Save the World
Learn how we can all help to bring more compassion to the challenges we face in the world today.
What is the Global Compassion Coalition?
Learn about the Global Compassion Coalition and how you can help bring more compassion to the world.
Lived By Love
Encourage love in all its forms to flow through you. Implicitly, and more fundamentally, this practice means a relaxed opening into the love – in a very very broad sense – that is the actual nature of everything.