In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on What Do You Do When You Meditate?
Rick Hanson
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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 25 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.
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Being Well Podcast: Maximize Your Motivation
On this episode, we explore how to optimize our motivation by distinguishing motivation from discipline, liking from wanting, We then explore how to best frame our outlook so we can feel relaxed, diligent, and uninhibited from being who we want to be and accomplishing what we want to accomplish.
Meditation + Talk: Handling Conflicts by Getting under the Surface in Yourself and Others
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Handling Conflicts by Getting under the Surface in Yourself and Others..
Meditation + Talk: What to Do When They Get Triggered
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on What to Do when They Get Triggered.
Being Well Podcast: Rumination: How to Disrupt Obsessive Thoughts
Learn what rumination is, where it comes from, and explore practices and strategies to identify rumination when it comes up, and move through it compassionately and effectively.
Meditation + Talk: What to Do When You Get Triggered
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on What to Do when You Get Triggered.
Being Well Podcast: How to Not Die Alone: Navigating Modern Dating with Logan Ury
Logan Ury discusses the mechanics of dating, chemistry, romance, apps, and how to reframe our self-limiting tendencies so we can find love that is fulfilling and brings out the best in us.
Meditation + Talk: The Living Heart of Compassion
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on The Living Heart of Compassion.
Being Well Podcast: Understanding and Managing Stress: Causes, Biological Basis, and Increasing Resilience
Learn how to distinguish stress from effort, the influence of the modern world on how stressed we feel, the biological mechanisms and challenges presented by chronic stress.
Meditation + Talk: The Essence of Practice in Three Breaths
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on The Essence of Practice in Three Breaths.
Being Well Podcast: Using the Enneagram to Rewrite Your Story with Ian Cron
As we’ve talked about often on Being Well, one of the most effective ways to change how we show up in the world is to identify and change our underlying personal narrative. On this episode, Forrest and I talk with Ian Cron about how we can use the Enneagram personality typing system to aid us in this process.
Meditation + Talk: Resting in the Ground of Everything
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Resting in the Ground of Everything.