by Rick Hanson | May 20, 2025 | Blog, Green Zone Brain, Just One Thing
When you feel fed – physically, emotionally, conceptually – you naturally let go of longing, disappointment, frustration, and craving. The hungry heart gets a full meal; goals are attained and the striving for them relaxes; one feels lifted by life as it is. What a relief!
Feeling fed also helps you enjoy positive emotions such as pleasure, contentment, accomplishment, ease, and worth. As researchers have shown, these good feelings reduce stress, help people bounce back from illness and loss, strengthen resilience, draw attention to the big picture, and build inner resources. And when your own cup runneth over, studies have found that you’re more inclined to give to others; feeling good helps you do good.
by Rick Hanson | May 6, 2025 | Blog, Foundations of Relationships, Just One Thing
Liking feels good, and it encourages us to approach and engage the world. We’re wired to like some things, but our liking or disliking depends greatly on what we pay attention to and our own perspective.
by Rick Hanson | Apr 29, 2025 | Blog, Just One Thing, Receive the Gifts
Since it’s always now, now is eternal. The present moment is continually passing away, so relax and be open to this moment. Not planning, not worrying, not lost in thought.
by Rick Hanson | Apr 22, 2025 | Being at Peace, Blog, Just One Thing
The tree or the forest? See the big picture. The vast majority of human acts each day are constructive: making meals, tending to children, saying hello, restraining anger, completing tasks, planting seeds, teaching, healing, nurturing, cooperating
by Rick Hanson | Apr 15, 2025 | Being a Friend to Yourself, Blog, Just One Thing
Try to understand what causes you to feel fault, resolve it and move on. Inner criticism tears you down. Commit to skillful corrections. Take a big breath and very deliberately name to yourself three strengths or virtues you have and let them sink in.
by Rick Hanson | Apr 8, 2025 | Blog, Foundations of Relationships, Just One Thing
Liking feels good, it encourages us to approach and engage the world. Know what benevolence feels like in your body, heart, and mind, and realize that it is natural and normal. Appreciate some of the benevolence that buoys you along. Most people are fair-minded, empathic, cooperative, compassionate, and kind: in a word, benevolent.
by Rick Hanson | Apr 1, 2025 | Blog, Foundations of Relationships, Just One Thing
See the good in others—it’s a simple but very powerful way to feel happier and more confident and become more loving.
by Rick Hanson | Mar 25, 2025 | Blog, Interpersonal Skills, Just One Thing
Imagine being aware of the surface behavior of the people around you but oblivious to their inner life while they remain unmoved by your own.
by Rick Hanson | Mar 18, 2025 | Blog, Just One Thing, Lived by Good Purpose
Nourish the things that nourish you. Try to do one thing each day to. “Pass forward” a gift to the person you will be tomorrow . . . and a year from now.
by Rick Hanson | Mar 12, 2025 | Blog, Foundations of Relationships, Just One Thing
Everyone longs to be seen, known, to have our hopes and fears acknowledged. Can you see behind the mask a person wears?
by Rick Hanson | Mar 4, 2025 | Blog, Interpersonal Skills, Just One Thing
Speaking from an open heart can seem so vulnerable yet be the strongest move of all. Naming the truth has great moral force.
by Rick Hanson | Feb 25, 2025 | Blog, Interpersonal Skills, Just One Thing
Criticism is unavoidable. Sometimes we take being criticized with good grace, other times it stings, and sometimes both are true. Here are some tips for accepting criticism, learning what you can from it, and moving on.
by Rick Hanson | Feb 18, 2025 | Blog, Foundations of Relationships, Just One Thing
When we encounter someone, the mind summarizes and simplifies tons of details. Though fast and efficient this process has lots of problems. As our ancestors evolved, rapid sorting of friend or foe was very useful but is it still.
by Rick Hanson | Feb 11, 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.
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