Today we’re beginning a new strength, Aspiration, with a conversation between Dr. Hanson and Dr. Dan Siegel. Dr. Siegel is a several-time bestselling author, Harvard-trained psychiatrist, and clinical professor at UCLA.
To live is to lean into the future. We’re always stretching toward one thing or another: the next person, the next task, the next sight or sound, the next breath. Aspiration focuses on meeting your need for satisfaction by reaching for and achieving results that are important to you.
In particular, during this series of episodes we’ll explore how to pursue your aims while being fundamentally peace with whatever happens.
During this episode, Dr. Dan Siegel explains how you can use “mindsight” to tap into the dreams you had as a child, and honor those aspirations as an adult.
This interview is also a part of the Foundations of Well-Being online program.
Timestamps:
- 1:15: Interview begins
- 4:00: Why has it been important to you, personally, to develop inner strengths?
- 8:25: How has your life experience contributed to your view of Aspiration?
- 14:55: How can you use Mindsight to tune back in to your childhood dreams?
- 21:20: Reclaiming the dreams of your youth.
- 29:45: What are some of the internal blocks people bump into?
- 38:30: Supporting the thriving of others.
- 46:15: How can we support the aspirations of younger people?
- 56:30: What advice would you give your younger self?
Dr. Rick Hanson offers 57 brief practices that strengthen the neural networks of deep well-being and resilience.
This program gives you just one thing to focus on each day to gradually change your brain for the better so you can handle the stresses and challenges of everyday life with greater ease, inner strength, and confidence.
Each practice is grounded in modern neuroscience and ancient wisdom, and Rick’s background in the very real world of business and raising a family.
Practices include a 1-2 minute video explaining the importance of the practice and how to do it, a recap, reflection, and suggestion for integrating it into your daily life, weekly emails with inspiration, support, and encouragement, an audio download, transcription, and printable handout.
They’re quick and easy to do, and each repetition strengthens key neural circuits – just like building a muscle in the gym. It’s the law of little things: a small thing repeated each day adds up to big results. Just one thing… that could change your life.
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