How Your Brain is Shaped by Your Thoughts
In this video, Rick discusses disengaging from negative thoughts and instead focusing on what is wholesome and beneficial to grow an unshakeable core of resilience.
Why It’s Important to Grow Inner Strengths
Rick discusses why it’s important to grow inner strengths to benefit both you and others.
The 1-Minute Challenge for Taking in the Good
Try this 1-minute challenge to help take in the good and absorb beneficial experiences.

Being Well Podcast: Creating an Abundance Mindset
On this episode of Being Well, Forrest and I talk about what a scarcity and an abundance mindset is, what some sources of scarcity are, and how we can move toward the authentic experience of abundance.

How to Promote Healthy Human Politics
As we seek the greater good in the 21st century, we must ask how we will solve our modern problems – such as great inequalities of wealth and power – with our Stone Age brains.

Meditation + Talk: Not Harming Others – Including during the COVID Pandemic
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a meditation and talk on Not Harming Others – Including during the COVID Pandemic.

Being Well Podcast: Finding Your Passion and Purpose
On this episode, Forrest and I discuss how we can identify and pursue our purpose, and why it’s so valuable to have one in the first place. We explore what questions and strategies can help us develop clarity on what we find meaningful, what our core values are, and how we’d like to spend a big chunk of our time.

Not Harming by Not Externalizing Costs – with Special Reference to the COVID Pandemic
An exploration of the covid pandemic and virtuous conduct – in terms of not harming others by externalizing our costs upon them.

Not Harming by Not Externalizing Costs – with Special Reference to the Climate Crisis
An overview on not causing harm through costs that are pushed downstream to others, with particular emphasis on the climate crisis.

Meditation + Talk: Not Harming Oneself and Others – with Reference to the Climate Crisis
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers meditation and talk on Not Harming Oneself and Others with Reference to the Climate Crisis and notes