When we’re faced with negative challenges, it’s natural for our brains to focus heavily on them. When we find ourselves consumed with the negative we’re experiencing, it’s helpful to remind yourself of the positive aspects in your life. Gratitude makes us resilient.
The more your life sucks, the more important it is to recognize the legitimate, authentic, good facts in your life.
In this short clip from his Neurodharma online program, Dr. Rick Hanson talks about how we spend more time using the “Doing” Parts of our brains than the “Being” parts, and how that can be detrimental.
Dr. Rick Hanson shares a fundamental teaching from the Buddha: Choosing a greater happiness over a lesser one.
What is well-being and why is it important? Dr. Rick Hanson answers those questions as well as another big question – why is it so hard to find LASTING happiness, and what can we do to obtain it?
Rick Hanson is big in the neuropsychology game, and kindly agreed to be interviewed for Live Before You Die, our project all about happiness and how to get it.