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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
Learn six way for cultivating the mind and our attention to being malleable and wielding, so we can use it well.
Put No One Out of Your Heart
It may feel necessary to distance yourself from another person for a while or forever but you never have to put anyone out of your heart.
Being Well Podcast: Managing Anxiety and Fear
How we can manage an anxious temperament, or help loved ones manage their own.
How Mindfulness Works in the Brain
Dr. Rick Hanson explains how mindfulness works in the brain.
Explore how to cultivate steadiness of mind from the top-down deliberate regulation of attention.
Being Well Podcast: Grit with Angela Duckworth
Much of our success in life comes down to our ability to identify the things we’re passionate about, pursue them with consistency, and keep going when things get tough.
Explore why it is useful to consider the undying physical, living basis of states of conscience that have been exhalted by the traditions of the world.
Being Well Podcast: Why We Worry
We continue our series on the central question “Who Am I” by exploring some subjects related to people who have an anxious or fearful temperament.
A Parent’s Meditation on Gratitude
It is common for parents to feel like the glass is half empty rather than half full. For that we would like to offer a Parent’s meditation on gratitude.
Why and How to Cultivate Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson, Ph.D. It focuses on cultivating personal strengths into happiness by training yourself to do good that lasts, and brings happiness, peace, and a mind of boundless love.
Being Well Podcast: Managing Worry with Lori Deschene
For many of us, worry and anxiety are constant companions. Learn how to manage, cope, and overcome those feelings with Lori Deschene, founder and editor of Tiny Buddha.