Being Well Podcast: The Optimism Bias and Influencing Other People with Dr. Tali Sharot
Are people optimistic by nature? And how can we use that answer to influence our behavior, or the behavior of other people? Today Forrest and I are joined by Dr. Tali Sharot to explore the optimism bias, how optimism can exist alongside negativity, and how we can influence others more effectively.
Being Well Podcast Guided Practice: Achieving Your New Year’s Resolutions
What do you want to achieve in 2021? In this short episode, Dr. Rick Hanson walks you through a guided practice focused on helping you reach your goals.
Meditation + Talk: Rested in the Qualities of Being
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Rested in the Qualities of Being, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
Being Well Podcast: How to Make 2021 Your Best Year
We all have something we want to do “some day,” but for most of us “some day” just never seems to come around. On today’s episode of the podcast, Forrest and I explore how to make 2021 the year you finally put all the pieces together, and achieve the goals you’ve set for yourself.
Meditation + Talk: Remembering Your True Home
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on remembering your true home, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
Avoid The Rush
Be mindful of rushing. See how other people assume deadlines that aren’t actually real, or feel pressured about things that aren’t that important.
Being Well Podcast: Facing Your Dreaded Experience
In this episode of the Being Well Podcast we talk about facing your dreaded experience. Forrest and Rick talk about what scares us, where that fear comes from, and what we can do to work with our dreaded experiences and free ourselves from them.
Meditation + Talk: A Powerful Simple Way to Stay Rested in the Heart
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on A Powerful Simple Way to Stay Rested in the Heart, both inside yourself and in reality altogether, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
Twelve Good Things 2020
Twelve Good Things that I think are really wonderful and worth your attention.
Being Well Podcast: Compassion, Power, and Human Nature with Dr. Dacher Keltner
Does power corrupt? Where does compassion come from? And do positive or negative emotions serve as the basis for our true nature? Today Forrest and I are exploring these questions with the help of a world-class expert on emotion, power, and morality: Dr. Dacher Keltner from UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center.