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Meditation + Talk: Accepting Yourself and Your Needs
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a meditation and talk on Accepting Yourself and Your Needs, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
Be Amazed
Look for opportunities to amaze yourself as you will find them all around you.
Meditation + Talk: Feeling Calm and Strong in Your Relationships
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a meditation and talk on Feeling Calm and Strong in Your Relationships, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
Grow Inner Strengths
Inner strengths are the supplies you’ve got in your pack as you make your way down the twisting and often hard road of life.
Meditation + Talk: Be Loyal to You
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a meditation and talk on Be Loyal to You, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
Talk: What Is Your Ultimate Concern?
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest teacher Kaira Jewel Lingo offers a talk on “What Is Your Ultimate Concern?”, which also includes a discussion.
Accept Dependence
We are hungry for love and need others. Let this truth in. Accepting your inherent dependence brings you into harmony with the way life is.
Meditation + Talk: How to Feel Less Anxious and More Peaceful
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a meditation and talk on How to Feel Less Anxious and More Peaceful, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
Accept Difficulty
When things are difficult, we often add a lot of unnecessary frustration, anxiety, and self-criticism by resisting the difficulty of them – often with an underlying attitude of “it shouldn’t be this way.” Find more peace by accepting difficulty instead of getting aggravated by it.
Meditation + Talk: Anxiety – and the Noble Truth of the End of Anxiety
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson discusses Anxiety – and the Noble Truth of An Eightfold Path Leads to the End of Anxiety, which also includes a Q&A and discussion.
Meditation + Talk: Innate Goodness
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest teacher Stephen Snyder offers a guided meditation and talk on Innate Goodness, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
Meditation + Talk: Anxiety – and the Noble Truth of Cessation
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Anxiety – and the Noble Truth of Cessation, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
Three Ways to Work with the Mind
Without steadiness of mind, it’s difficult to be productive, peaceful, or helpful to other people. To aid in cultivating a more steady mind, Dr. Rick Hanson offers three fundamental ways in which you can work with it.
Meditation + Talk: Anxiety – and the Noble Truth of Craving
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Anxiety – and the Noble Truth of Craving, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
Meditation + Talk: Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness – Embodied, Trauma-Informed Approach to Mindfulness Meditation & Self-Healing
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest teacher Fleet Maull offers a guided meditation and talk on Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness -Deeply Embodied, Trauma-Informed Approach to Mindfulness Meditation & Self-Healing, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
Water Your Fruit Tree
Nourish the things that nourish you. Try to do one thing each day to. “Pass forward” a gift to the person you will be tomorrow . . . and a year from now.
Meditation + Talk: Anxiety – and the Noble Truth of Suffering
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Anxiety – and the Noble Truth of Suffering, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
Meditation + Talk: Original Love – and the Path of Awakening
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest teacher Henry Shukman offers a guided meditation and talk on Original Love – and the Path of Awakening, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
Stay Right When You’re Wronged
Blasting another person with anger is like throwing hot coals with bare hands: both people get burned. Speak calmly and from your heart, even when wronged.
Meditation + Talk: Why and How to Meditate – and Answering Questions
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Why and How to Meditate – and Answering Questions, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
Rest Your Weary Head
Our minds are hauled along in a culture without a speed limit – exceeding the limit, and there is always a price. Pulling out of the mental traffic, it’s an act of freedom and wisdom.