Dr. Rick Hanson and Summer Camp: Who knew?
This is a guest post from Michelle Lilyanna at Happinessandjoylessons.com Last week, a friend came to me and asked me to make a nighttime audio for her daughter who is going away to summer camp. Her daughter has enjoyed my other calming audios but wanted one...
Rewiring Your Brain: An Article from Jennifer Forsberg Meyer
The Rural Life / By Jennifer Forsberg Meyer Rewiring Your Brain Sometimes things intersect in a way that makes you sit up and take notice. This happened to me recently. It started with some spectacular nature programs—the BBC series available on Netflix....Practicing with Negative Reactions to Others
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.
The Caring Quilt Creative Activity
Check out this great creative activity that will deepen and internalize your sense of being cared about – an important inner resource for resilience, happiness, and satisfying relationships, and a key part of the Foundations of Well-Being. This 12-minute video...Enjoy Life
If you’d like to be more motivated about certain things–such as exercising, eating healthy foods, or pushing through a tough project at work–focusing on what’s enjoyable about them will naturally draw you into doing them.
Feeling Safer
Fear arises when threats seem bigger than resources. Sometimes this is actually the case, such as getting an unexpected bill that you don’t have the money to pay. But due to “paper tiger paranoia,” threats often look larger than they really are while resources look smaller than they really are.
QUIZ: Do You Know When to Stop?
Whether driving a car or going through life altogether, we need to be able to speed up skillfully . . . as well as slow down and even stop. How is it going with whatever you want to decrease or stop in your own life? Perhaps related to food, drugs and alcohol, media....QUIZ: Are You a Self-Starter?
One of the secrets to a happy and productive life is to know how to help yourself come to want things that are good for you and others . . . that you don’t initially want that much. Find out how good you are at motivating yourself, or nudging yourself in a kind way,...QUIZ: Do You Have Grit?
Can you be as the occasion demands? How determined, patient, persistent, and (as needed) feral are you? Find out how much Grit you have, with this short quiz from my Foundations of Well-Being program: https://fwb.rickhanson.net/gritquizNot So Hard on Yourself
Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled Not So Hard on Yourself.
More information on the San Rafael Mediation group can be found here.