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Writings on Well-Being Dr. Rick Hanson
Talk + Meditation: A Novel Way to Explore the Eightfold Path
How impermanence, mindfulness, and the Eightfold Path help transform suffering into wisdom and compassionate action.
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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.
COVID19 Vaccination – Q&A (Posted 4/25/21)
Dr. Hanson answers some commonly asked questions about COVID19 and the vaccinations to prevent it.
Meditation + Talk: Why and How to Meditate
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Why and How to Meditate, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
Meditation + Talk: Liberation – Awake and Full of Feeling
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest teacher Amana Brembry Johnson offers a guided meditation and talk on Liberation: Awake and Full of Feeling, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Step into the Cloud
Stressed by all the things you have to do? Seen as brick-like entities, tasks can feel heavy, oppressive, burdensome. If instead we view our tasks as clouds, tasks feel more fluid, like streams or eddies you step into, influencing or contributing as best you can, before they swirl on and become something else.
Meditation + Talk: Learning to Care . . . and Not to Care
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Learning to Care . . . and Not to Care, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
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.