Expanding Compassion for Our Times
Compassion can expand beyond empathy for those who are like us.
What to Do When the Bottom Falls Out?
It’s normal to feel shocked, frozen, frightened, or outraged. But here are four fundamental strengths to help us feel and function better in difficult times.
Rick’s Recommended Books of 2024
Books have brought me comfort, humor, knowledge, inspiration, and a lot of joy. Here are my favorites from 2024 — from Fiction to Spiritual Growth to Science.
Your Best Brain
Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled Practicing with Negative Reactions to Others.
More information on the San Rafael Mediation group can be found here.
Your Precious Life – Part 1
What an incredible opportunity it is to have a life. At all. To fulfill that opportunity, we need a fundamental orientation inside that treats our life as if it matters. As if our happiness is important, as if being mistreated is not alright, as if we deserve the same...
Peace of Mind: Emotions, the Limbic System, and Equanimity
Exercises to encourage you to keep moving from shame to worth.
Train Your Brain: From Sadness to Contentment
Exercises to encourage you to keep moving from shame to worth.
Coping with Loss: Implications of Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom
Exercises to encourage you to keep moving from shame to worth.
It’s Possible to Heal Yourself
Exercises to encourage you to keep moving from shame to worth.
How to Promote Healthy Human Politics
As we seek the greater good in the 21st century, we must ask how we will solve our modern problems – such as great inequalities of wealth and power – with our Stone Age brains.
Not Harming by Not Externalizing Costs – with Special Reference to the COVID Pandemic
An exploration of the covid pandemic and virtuous conduct – in terms of not harming others by externalizing our costs upon them.
Not Harming by Not Externalizing Costs – with Special Reference to the Climate Crisis
An overview on not causing harm through costs that are pushed downstream to others, with particular emphasis on the climate crisis.
Do’s and Don’ts of Virtuous Conduct
Practical Do’s and Don’ts for virtuous conduct that lead to happiness and away from suffering, for ourselves and others.
Findings on the Positive Neuroplasticity Training
How do you practice taking in the good and what effects does your practice have on your life?
PNT Teacher Standards
To ensure the highest quality of teaching of the Positive Neuroplasticity Training, its Teachers are expected to meet these standards: