by Rick Hanson | Feb 12, 2025 | Blog, Interpersonal Skills, Just One Thing
What can you do when there’s nothing you can do? Love Someone. Sometimes something happens. Perhaps your cat takes a turn for the worse, there’s a money problem, or it’s on a larger scale: maybe there’s been an election and you’re grappling with its
by Rick Hanson | Feb 5, 2025 | At Home in Your Body, Blog, Just One Thing
Controlling your attention – being able to place it where you want it and keep it there, being able to pull it away from what’s bothersome or pointless.
by Rick Hanson | Jan 28, 2025 | Blog, Just One Thing, Lived by Good Purpose
The most important things often get pushed to the sidelines. But if you don’t make a sanctuary for what is important, it will get overrun B and C priorities.
by Rick Hanson | Jan 21, 2025 | Blog, Just One Thing, Leave the Red Zone
You can open to a sense of freedom and autonomy where you get to decide what you could stop doing and lighten up.
by Rick Hanson | Jan 7, 2025 | Blog, Foundations of Relationships, Just One Thing
Being at peace with others’ pain helps us be supportive of their pain.
by Rick Hanson | Dec 31, 2024 | Blog, Interpersonal Skills, Just One Thing
Get beyond the hassle and bad feelings by admitting fault. Remind yourself how it’s in your own best interest to admit fault and move on. It takes a strong person to admit fault, and it puts us in a stronger position with others.
by Rick Hanson | Dec 24, 2024 | Blog, Just One Thing, Receive the Gifts
Life shows us generosity in a magnitude of ways including our senses and the natural world. The best thing we can do is to receive generosity.
by Rick Hanson | Dec 17, 2024 | Blog, Foundations of Relationships, Just One Thing
Where does it hurt? The practice: Recognize suffering in others. We’re usually aware of our own suffering, but seeing the suffering in others: that’s not so common. All the news and pictures of disaster, murder, and grief that bombard us each day
by Rick Hanson | Dec 3, 2024 | Being at Peace, Blog, Just One Thing
If you don’t see progress in your own life, then you will feel stagnant, or declining. Learn to notice the things that are improving all around you.
by Rick Hanson | Nov 26, 2024 | Blog, Just One Thing, Receive the Gifts
Say Thanks – it’s a small moment with big ripples. What do you feel when someone thanks you for something? For a comment in a meeting, a task done at home, an extra step taken, an encouraging word.
by Rick Hanson | Nov 19, 2024 | Acting Skillfully, Articles, Blog, Just One Thing, Lived by Good Purpose, Open to Wisdom
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.
by Rick Hanson | Nov 12, 2024 | Blog, Just One Thing, Leave the Red Zone
Painful experiences range from subtle discomfort to extreme anguish – and there is a place for them. Sorrow can open the heart.
by Rick Hanson | Nov 5, 2024 | Blog, Just One Thing, The Wider World
What do you do when the bottom falls out? Take heart. By “taking heart,” I mean several related things: Sensing your heart and chest, finding encouragement in what is good both around you and inside you, resting in your own warmth, compassion, and
by Rick Hanson | Oct 29, 2024 | Blog, Interpersonal Skills, Just One Thing
Humans are vulnerable to being alarmed, manipulated, and even intimidated by threats, both real ones and “paper tigers.” Understanding how your brain became so vigilant and wary, and so easily hijacked by alarm, is the first step toward gaining more control over that ancient circuitry and is less rattled or distracted by exaggerated, manageable, or false alarms.
by Rick Hanson | Oct 22, 2024 | Blog, Just One Thing, Open to Wisdom
We have a choice: we can let things change and do what we can, or we can fight it and likely end up feeling even worse.
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