by Rick Hanson | May 28, 2015 | Articles, Blog
Happiness is far more than a positive feeling that comes and goes. Science is now proving that happiness is a skill that you can develop. My audio program – Meditations for Happiness: Rewire Your Brain for Lasting Contentment and Peace – brings you a...
by Rick Hanson | May 25, 2015 | Articles, Blog
This is the third post in the series on Your Precious Life. Here’s Part One and Part Two. In it we’ll find the new strength you can uncover through Being For Yourself. Let’s begin with another practice, similar to the one we did in the last post. But this time...
by Rick Hanson | May 21, 2015 | Articles, Blog
In this audio excerpt from Meditations to Change Your Brain: Rewire Your Neural Pathways to Transform Your Life, Richard Mendius and I offer seven guided practices to “rebuild” your brain for lasting joy and fulfillment. I hope you like it. I’d love to hear your...
by Rick Hanson | May 18, 2015 | Articles, Blog
This is the second post in the series on Your Precious Life. You can find Part One here. In it we’ll look at the power of Being For Something. Let’s do a brief practice together. Think of it as an exercise for your mind. You can keep your eyes open or closed, take...
by Rick Hanson | May 13, 2015 | Articles, Blog
Feeling safer is a tricky subject, with complications that can be both personal and political. (This topic and others are explored in depth in my interview with New Dimensions.) Yes, there are real threats out there, but evolution and other factors have left a lot of...
by Rick Hanson | May 11, 2015 | Articles, Blog
This series of blog posts is about Your Precious Life: what an incredible opportunity it is to have a life. At all. Part 1: Your Precious Life Part 2: Being For Something Part 3: Being For Yourself Part 4: Reflections from the Porch Part 5: The Beauty of Life in the...
by Rick Hanson | May 8, 2015 | Blog
Rick’s Picks is a new series of posts highlighting the very best content online. Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in September 2006, and in August 2007 he was given a terminal...
by Rick Hanson | May 4, 2015 | Articles, Blog
This is the fourth and final post in the series on developing mindful presence. Here’s Part One, Part Two, and Part Three. In Part Three we did a little mindfulness meditation to “tune-up” our mindfulness and concentration skills. Now we are going to...
by Rick Hanson | May 1, 2015 | Blog
Rick’s Picks is a new series of posts highlighting the very best content online. This piece from FiveThirtyEight explores a classic contest of man vs. machine, carried out on the battlefield of the chess board. Seventeen years ago in New York City, brooding...
by Rick Hanson | Apr 30, 2015 | Articles, Blog
Most of our greatest joys and sorrows happen in our relationships with others. Imagine then: what if you could guide your mind to forgive, heal, and find greater happiness in your connections with others? The remarkable truth is that you can. Check out this sample...
by Rick Hanson | Apr 27, 2015 | Articles, Blog
This is the third post in the series on developing mindful presence. Here’s Part One and Part Two. Steady mindfulness requires overcoming the natural – and evolutionarily adaptive – tendency of mind to scan endlessly and think of new things. So the basic...
