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Writings on Well-Being Dr. Rick Hanson
Being Well Podcast: Who You’ll Be This Year: Values, Goals, and a Different Kind of Resolution
Dr. Rick and Forrest make the case that most resolutions fail because they focus on the wrong things: outcomes and behaviors rather than key values.
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Being Well Podcast: Getting More From 2024
Dr. Rick Hanson and Forrest kick off the new year by exploring how we can relate to the past, plan for the future, and get more from 2024.
Meditation + Talk: How to Let Go
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 29-minute meditation and a 53-minute talk about How to Let Go.
Drop the Load
Are the rewards of new commitments really worth the costs? Sometimes you have to give up the lesser rewards of a new thing for the greater rewards of allowing some new space to clear in your life.
Meditation + Talk: Caring More . . . and Caring Less
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 34-minute meditation and a 47-minute talk about Caring More . . . and Caring Less.
Being Well Podcast: Finding Your Joy: The Holiday Special with Elizabeth Ferreira
Forrest and Elizabeth welcome listeners into their home to talk about their changing relationship with the holidays and finding your joy.
Be Mind Full of Good
With a mind full of good, you’ll have more to offer others, which will grow the good in them, too, perhaps—reaching eventually around the whole world.
Being Well Podcast: Harnessing Your Generativity: The Secret to Productivity, Creativity, and Consistency
Dr. Rick joins Forrest for a deep dive into harnessing our natural generativity. How can we become more productive and creative, experience greater satisfaction, and lean into our biological drives to get more of what we want out of life?
Meditation + Talk: Right Effort . . . about Right Effort!
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 34-minute meditation and a 47-minute talk about Right Effort . . . about Right Effort!
Twelve Good Things 2023
Each year I use an issue of the Just One Thing newsletter to offer Twelve Good Things that I think are really wonderful and worth your attention. May you and those you love and the whole wide world be truly well, truly happy, and truly at peace. — O N E —Global...
Being Well Podcast: How to Become a NEW Person
Learn how to step out of the way you’ve been previously, and into a new way of thinking, doing, and being.
Let It Flow
Can you stay mindful and peaceful when your thoughts and life get bumpy? In life there will be gain and loss, praise and blame, and pleasure and pain. If you let them flow, you can ride the waves of life with gratitude and grace, and without drowning.
Being Well Podcast: What Healthy Couples DON’T Do with Dr. Amy Morin
Therapist Amy Morin joins Forrest to help us learn how to regulate our thoughts, manage our emotions, and become more psychologically flexible.
Meditation + Talk: Releasing and Receiving
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Rick offered a meditation and talk called Releasing and Receiving.
Learn As You Go
Are you missing opportunities to grow stronger, happier, and more resilient? Each day is an opportunity to learn, grow, and take in the good. Use this two-step process to heal from the past, grow strengths for the future.
Being Well Podcast: Highly Sensitive People, Repairing with Family, and “Talking About Talking”: November Mailbag
Dr. Rick and Forrest open up the mailbag and answer questions from listeners about repairing with family, highly sensitive people, and more.
Meditation + Talk: The Essence of Practice – Loving, Knowing, and Growing
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Rick offered a meditation and talk called The Essence of Practice: Loving, Knowing, and Growing.
Being Well Podcast: What Really Helps Trauma? with Dr. Jacob Ham
In one of the most interesting conversations we’ve ever had on the podcast, clinical psychologist Dr. Jacob Ham explores what really helps people work with – and be with – trauma.
Meditation + Talk: Tools For Difficult Conversations
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Oren Jay Sofer offered a meditation and talk called Tools For Difficult Conversations.
Love Your Neighbor
Kindness to others is enlightened self-interest. Compassion and kindness expresses an inner freedom.
Meditation + Talk: How to Use Fear and Not Let It Use You
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk called How to Use Fear and Not Let It Use You.
Bless
To blissful is to see what is tender and beautiful, and wish well. Look for good things in others. Know what the act and attitude of blessing feel like, and take in the experience to call upon it in the future.