Grow an Unshakable Core of Resilient Well-Being
Learn how to develop key inner strengths – like grit, gratitude, and compassion – to stay calm, confident, and happy no matter what life throws at you.
Resilience Is For Thriving, Not Just Surviving
These days it’s hard to count on the world outside us. So it’s vital to grow strengths inside like self-worth, patience, kindness, and joy. These make you resilient: the foundation of lasting well-being in a changing world.
With his trademark blend of neuroscience, mindfulness, and practical psychology, New York Times bestselling author Dr. Rick Hanson (with Forrest Hanson) shows you how to deal with stress and pursue your dreams with a deep sense of capability and contentment.
Based on the successful Foundations of Well-Being program, as well as 30 years of clinical practice and teaching, this practical guide to reliable happiness is full of concrete suggestions, experiential practices, personal examples, and insights into the brain. It also includes many ways to handle conflicts with others and have more satisfying relationships.
Warm, encouraging, and down-to-earth, Dr. Hanson’s step-by-step approach is grounded in the science of positive neuroplasticity. He shows you how to overcome the brain’s negativity bias, release painful thoughts and feelings, and replace them with self-compassion, hope, and inner peace.
Rick and Forrest have laid out a simple, elegant matrix of powerful tools to grow that unshakable core of calm, strength, and happiness that is the secret longing of every human heart.
Speaking as both a psychologist and a fellow traveler, this is the most valuable, comprehensive book on human development that I’ve ever read.
Using practical methods at the intersection of neuroscience, psychology, and contemplative practice,
Dr. Rick Hanson teaches us how we can develop durable psychological resources such as grit, gratitude, and compassion – and become resilient human beings in this modern, hectic world.
If you’re looking to create more calm, joy, and inner peace, this is the book for you.
In the jungle of books on mindfulness and neuroscience, Rick Hanson hacks a comprehensive and enlightening path through, while giving insight on how to understand your wild and wooly mind.
And if that wasn’t enough, he gives us tools to achieve peace and happiness.
What more could you ask for?
Smart and well-written, Resilient provides a clear blueprint for sustaining happiness by building a reservoir of resilience.
With his trademark deep synthesis of multiple disciplines, Rick Hanson provides a practical guidebook for anyone living in complicated and challenging times, which means this book couldn’t come at a better time.
Rick Hanson is a brilliant and masterful guide in cultivating the traits that underlie a happy, fulfilled life.
Resilient will give you exactly what you need for positive transformation: accessible and powerful strategies that awaken your natural intelligence, confidence, and heart.
In this landmark book, Rick Hanson guides the reader, with clear practical steps, to build and fortify the critical resource of resilience.
In clear terms, large with research and wisdom, while short on jargon and platitudes, Hanson shows us how we can all grow ‘an unshakable core of calm, strength, and happiness.
A most important book, equally valuable for professional and lay seekers on the path to vibrancy and wholeness.
Excerpts
How Your Childhood Experiences Shape You
Your experiences as a child make a big impact on your own sense of autonomy, and how it affects your relationships.
Feeling Successful
Experiences of meeting your goals feel good, lower stress, and build positive motivation, which helps you stay in the Responsive mode as you go through your day.
Three Reasons to Be For Yourself
Think about what a typical day would be like if you were on your own side. Would you appreciate your good intentions and good heart? Would you be less self-critical?
Enjoy Life
If you’d like to be more motivated about certain things, focusing on what’s enjoyable about them will naturally draw you into doing them.
Feeling Safer
Fear arises when threats seem bigger than resources. Due to “paper tiger paranoia,” threats often look larger than they really are while resources look smaller.
The Importance of Learning
How do we get psychological supplies, such as compassion and courage, into our neural “backpack”? We do it by learning.