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Writings on Well-Being Dr. Rick Hanson
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Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled, “The Third Foundation of Mindfulness.”
Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled, “Play and Practice.”
Love More, Cling Less
Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled, “Love More, Cling Less.”
Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled Five Questions When Someone Upsets You.
Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled Compassion and Equanimity.
More information on the San Rafael Mediation group can be found here.
Dr. Rick Hanson and Summer Camp: Who knew?
This is a guest post from Michelle Lilyanna at Happinessandjoylessons.com Last week, a friend came to me and asked me to make a nighttime audio for her daughter who is going away to summer camp. Her daughter has enjoyed my other calming audios but wanted one...
Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled When You Just Can’t Make a Good Thing Happen.
More information on the San Rafael Mediation group can be found here.
Rewiring Your Brain: An Article from Jennifer Forsberg Meyer
The Rural Life / By Jennifer Forsberg Meyer Rewiring Your Brain Sometimes things intersect in a way that makes you sit up and take notice. This happened to me recently. It started with some spectacular nature programs—the BBC series available on Netflix....
Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled Already Happy Now.
More information on the San Rafael Mediation group can be found here.
Practicing with Negative Reactions to Others
Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled Practicing with Negative Reactions to Others.
More information on the San Rafael Mediation group can be found here.
The Caring Quilt Creative Activity
Check out this great creative activity that will deepen and internalize your sense of being cared about - an important inner resource for resilience, happiness, and satisfying relationships, and a key part of the Foundations of Well-Being. This 12-minute video guides...
Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled The Samadhi Pillar of Practice.
More information on the San Rafael Mediation group can be found here.
Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled Presence, Letting Go, and Love.
More information on the San Rafael Mediation group can be found here.
Enjoy Life
If you’d like to be more motivated about certain things–such as exercising, eating healthy foods, or pushing through a tough project at work–focusing on what’s enjoyable about them will naturally draw you into doing them.
Feeling Safer
Fear arises when threats seem bigger than resources. Sometimes this is actually the case, such as getting an unexpected bill that you don’t have the money to pay. But due to “paper tiger paranoia,” threats often look larger than they really are while resources look smaller than they really are.
QUIZ: Do You Know When to Stop?
Whether driving a car or going through life altogether, we need to be able to speed up skillfully . . . as well as slow down and even stop. How is it going with whatever you want to decrease or stop in your own life? Perhaps related to food, drugs and alcohol, media....
QUIZ: Are You a Self-Starter?
One of the secrets to a happy and productive life is to know how to help yourself come to want things that are good for you and others . . . that you don’t initially want that much. Find out how good you are at motivating yourself, or nudging yourself in a kind way,...
QUIZ: Do You Have Grit?
Can you be as the occasion demands? How determined, patient, persistent, and (as needed) feral are you? Find out how much Grit you have, with this short quiz from my Foundations of Well-Being program: https://fwb.rickhanson.net/gritquiz
Not So Hard on Yourself
Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled Not So Hard on Yourself.
More information on the San Rafael Mediation group can be found here.
Self-Consciousness and Self-Awareness
Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled, “Self-Consciousness and Self-Awareness.”
QUIZ: What’s Your Expression Style?
As profoundly social primates, we have a normal longing for others to find the buried treasure inside of us - but we must express ourselves for this to happen. Find out how comfortable you are expressing yourself, with this short quiz from my Foundations of Well-Being...