Aspiration: An Interview with Dan Siegel
"Life is always unfolding, you're always in an emerging process... only junk can really make you feel stagnat or chaotic, and the beautiful thing about being a human being is you have a choice. With awareness, you can use liberate yourself and free yourself to your...
Practicing with Negative Reactions to Others
Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled Practicing with Negative Reactions to Others.
More information on the San Rafael Mediation group can be found here.
The Caring Quilt Creative Activity
Check out this great creative activity that will deepen and internalize your sense of being cared about - an important inner resource for resilience, happiness, and satisfying relationships, and a key part of the Foundations of Well-Being. This 12-minute video guides...
Paul Gilbert Interview on Confidence
"A lot of what happens with loss of confidence, is that we undermine whatever confidence we may have. Humans have an amazing capacity to monitor everything - and that can begin to cause you a lot of trouble - because you're monitoring that there's a problem, rather...
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....