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Writings on Well-Being Dr. Rick Hanson
Meditation + Talk: How to Prevent and Release Needless Anxiety
Anxiety is a normal human experience, but excessive or chronic anxiety can wear us down and be detrimental to our long-term happiness and health.
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Relax Needless Fear Around Others
People don’t care what you’re doing – you are just a bit player in their own personal drama. Or if they do care, it’s a passing feeling.
Meditation + Talk: Walking Lightly in the World
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Walking Lightly in the World, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
Meditate
Meditation is to the mind what aerobic exercise is to the body.
Meditation + Talk: Letting Go of Fear, and Resting in Peaceful Confidence
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Letting Go of Fear, and Resting in Peaceful Confidence, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
Meditation + Talk: Steadying the Mind, and Working with Hindrances
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest speaker Tina Rasmussen offers a guided meditation and talk which focused on Steadying the Mind, and Working with Hindrances, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
Rest in Center
There is a deeper place that is undisturbed, your center. As you deepen your sense of connection with this core of your being, you’ll be more resilient, happier, and at ease.
Meditation + Talk: How to Steady Your Mind and Enter Deep States of Meditative Absorption
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest speaker Tina Rasmussen offers a guided meditation and talk which focused on How to Steady Your Mind and Enter Deep States of Meditative Absorption, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
Pet the Lizard
The brain is highly integrated, so these three key functions – avoiding, approaching, and attaching – are accomplished by all parts of the brain working together.
Meditation + Talk: Four Ways to Let Go
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Four Ways to Let Go, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
Meditation + Talk: The Upward Spiral of Sudden Awakening and Gradual Cultivation
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on the upward spiral of sudden awakening and gradual cultivation, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
Love Freely
Love is in our nature, woven into our DNA. Love is a natural wellspring inside us all. It doesn’t need to be pushed or pumped. It needs to be released.
Meditation + Talk: Seven Factors of Awakening, and Three Approaches to the Unconditioned
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Seven Factors of Awakening, and Three Approaches to the Unconditioned, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
Let It R.A.I.N.
R.A.I.N. is an acronym developed by Michelle McDonald but adapted a bit by me, to summarize a powerful way to expand self-awareness.
Meditation + Talk: Changing Your Mind
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Changing Your Mind, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
Leave the Red Zone
In a busy life, each day gives you dozens of opportunities to leave the Red zone and move toward Green. Each time you do this, you gradually strengthen the neural substrates of Green, one synapse at a time.
Meditation + Talk: Cultivating Compassion for the Journey
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest speaker JD Doyle offers a guided meditation and talk focus on Cultivating Compassion for the Journey, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
Love Someone
What can you do when there’s nothing you can do? Love Someone. Sometimes something happens. Perhaps your cat takes a turn for the worse, there’s a money problem, or it’s on a larger scale: maybe there’s been an election and you’re grappling with its
Meditation + Talk: Guided Connection to Calm and Equanimity with Wisdom Mudra
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest speaker Tarané Sayler offers a guided meditation and talk focus on Guided Connection to Calm and Equanimity with Wisdom Mudra, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
Meditation + Talk: Resting in Simply Being in the Present
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Resting in Simply Being in the Present, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
Meditation + Talk: Growing What You Want to Be, and Being What You Already Are
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Growing What You Want to Be, and Being What You Already Are, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
Meditation + Talk: Equanimity
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Equanimity, which includes a Q&A and discussion.