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Writings on Well-Being Dr. Rick Hanson
Meditation + Talk: Four Ways to Deal with Life’s Challenges Without Suffering Them
Struggling with stress, regret, or overwhelm? Learn four powerful ways to calm your mind, stop overthinking, and find real peace—backed by brain science.
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Being Well Podcast: How to Reinvent Yourself (in 2023)
Forrest and Dr. Rick focus on what supports us and what holds us back from reinventing ourselves and becoming all we wish to be, how they’d like to change over the next year, different approaches to new year’s resolutions, and highlight a few practical things we can do to support our change.
Meditation + Talk: The Metta Sutta – and Compassion’s Shadow
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on The Metta Sutta – and Compassion’s Shadow.
Being Well Podcast: The Science of Stress with Dr. Elissa Epel
Dr. Elissa Epel joins us to explore the science behind the stress response, different forms of stress, what separates “good” stress from “bad” stress, how we can take advantage of good stress, and dealing with existential forms of stress like the climate crisis.
Meditation + Talk: How to Disentangle Yourself in Challenging Relationships
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on How to Disentangle Yourself in Challenging Relationships.
Being Well Podcast: Responding to Criticism, and Accepting the Way Things Are
Dr. Rick and Forrest focus on how we can get better at receiving and giving criticism, learn to accept what lies outside of our control, and avoid the “mood of complaint.”
Meditation + Talk: Generosity – for Others and for Yourself
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Generosity – for Others and for Yourself.
Being Well Podcast: Untangling Ourselves with Koshin Paley Ellison
Koshin Paley Ellison joins Forrest and Rick to explore living, dying, and personal practice in the midst of our beautiful, challenging, messy lives.
Meditation + Talk: Appreciating Others and Yourself
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Appreciating Others and Yourself.
Being Well Podcast: How to Understand Anxiety and See Threats Clearly
Dr. Rick and Forrest focus on how we can see threats clearly and be the “right amount” of concerned.
Meditation + Talk: Fear Doesn’t Help
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Fear Doesn’t Help.
Being Well Podcast: Moving Beyond “Fair” to Build a Great Relationship with Nate and Kaley Klemp
Nate and Kaley Klemp explore how we can build fun, fulfilling, and truly equitable relationships, different models of relationship, breaking out of old patterns, and how we can manage situations where one partner really is contributing significantly more than the other.
Meditation + Talk: Accessing the Absolute: Pure Love and Peace Guided Meditation
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest teacher Stephen Snyder covered the topic of Accessing the Absolute: Pure Love and Peace.
Meditation + Talk: Abiding In and Radiating Love
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest teacher Tarané Sayler covered the topic of Abiding In and Radiating Love.
Being Well Podcast: Choosing The Roles We Play in Life
We explore the various roles we play in life, how we select our roles, how familiar roles can keep us trapped in old patterns, enactments and triangulation, and how we can exit unhealthy systems.
Being Well Podcast: Authentically Developing Self-Worth
We talk about self-worth vs. self-esteem, what causes people to lack self-worth, Rick’s personal story of developing a true sense of self-worth, and why more self-worth probably won’t turn you into a narcissistic a**hole.
Meditation + Talk: Four Ways to Help Yourself in Challenging Relationships
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Four Ways to Help Yourself in Challenging Relationships.
Being Well Podcast: Deepening Practice, Embracing Growth, and Becoming Lighter with Yung Pueblo
Yung Pueblo joins Forrest to explore how we can enrich our personal practice, refine the mind, break old patterns, relax the self, and feel lighter than we were before.
Meditation + Talk: Letting Go of Problematic Beliefs in Your Relationships
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Letting Go of Problematic Beliefs in Your Relationships.
Being Well Podcast: How to Forgive Yourself
We explore forgiveness, including common myths and misunderstandings about forgiveness, the difference between healthy and unhealthy remorse, coming to terms with what we’ve done, and achieving (self-)forgiveness.
Meditation + Talk: Skillful and Unskillful Patience in Your Relationships
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Skillful and Unskillful Patience in Your Relationships
Lived By Love
Encourage love in all its forms to flow through you. Implicitly, and more fundamentally, this practice means a relaxed opening into the love – in a very very broad sense – that is the actual nature of everything.