In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Learning to Care . . . and Not to Care, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
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 eight books have been published in 33 languages and include Hardwiring Happiness, Buddha’s Brain, Resilient, Neurodharma, Just One Thing, Making Great Relationships, A Happy, Healthy Mom, 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 30 million times. He offers free newsletters, and his online programs have scholarships available for those with financial needs. 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: The Optimism Bias and Influencing Other People with Dr. Tali Sharot
Are people optimistic by nature? And how can we use that answer to influence our behavior, or the behavior of other people? Today Forrest and I are joined by Dr. Tali Sharot to explore the optimism bias, how optimism can exist alongside negativity, and how we can influence others more effectively.
Being Well Podcast Guided Practice: Achieving Your New Year’s Resolutions
What do you want to achieve in 2021? In this short episode, Dr. Rick Hanson walks you through a guided practice focused on helping you reach your goals.
Meditation + Talk: Rested in the Qualities of Being
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Rested in the Qualities of Being, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
Being Well Podcast: How to Make 2021 Your Best Year
We all have something we want to do “some day,” but for most of us “some day” just never seems to come around. On today’s episode of the podcast, Forrest and I explore how to make 2021 the year you finally put all the pieces together, and achieve the goals you’ve set for yourself.
Meditation + Talk: Remembering Your True Home
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on remembering your true home, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
Being Well Podcast: Facing Your Dreaded Experience
In this episode of the Being Well Podcast we talk about facing your dreaded experience. Forrest and Rick talk about what scares us, where that fear comes from, and what we can do to work with our dreaded experiences and free ourselves from them.
Meditation + Talk: A Powerful Simple Way to Stay Rested in the Heart
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on A Powerful Simple Way to Stay Rested in the Heart, both inside yourself and in reality altogether, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
Twelve Good Things 2020
Twelve Good Things that I think are really wonderful and worth your attention.
Being Well Podcast: Compassion, Power, and Human Nature with Dr. Dacher Keltner
Does power corrupt? Where does compassion come from? And do positive or negative emotions serve as the basis for our true nature? Today Forrest and I are exploring these questions with the help of a world-class expert on emotion, power, and morality: Dr. Dacher Keltner from UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center.
Meditation + Talk: Knowing How Deeply Our Lives Are Intertwined
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest speaker Leslie Booker offers a guided meditation and talk on knowing how deeply our lives are intertwined, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
Being Well Podcast: What Did We Learn From 2020?
It’s been a long, strange, challenging year. As we get toward the end of it, and look forward to 2021, it feels appropriate to start by taking a look back and seeing what, if anything, we can learn from the year that’s gone by.