What is Happiness?
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.
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/gritquiz
Not 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.
Self-Consciousness and Self-Awareness
Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled, “Self-Consciousness and Self-Awareness.”
QUIZ: What’s Your Expression Style?
As profoundly social primates, we have a normal longing for others to find the buried treasure inside of us - but we must express ourselves for this to happen. Find out how comfortable you are expressing yourself, with this short quiz from my Foundations of Well-Being...