What’s the spark and what’s the fuel? Welcome joy. Positive emotions – such as feelings of gratitude, love, and confidence – strengthen the immune system, protect the heart against loss and trauma, build relationships, increase resilience, and promote success The post Welcome Joy appeared first on Dr. Rick Hanson. Read more
Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled Practicing With Pain and Threat. More information on the San Rafael Meditation group can be found here. The post Practicing With Pain and Threat appeared first on Dr. Ri... Read more
What hopes and dreams did you have as a child? How has it gone with fulfilling them? Does the part of your life that is “work” feel like a good combination of what you really enjoy doing, are talented at, and care about? Investigate this... The post QUIZ: Do You Realize Your Dreams? appeared first on Dr. Rick Hanson. Read more
Rick’s Picks is a series of posts highlighting the very best content online. Malala Yousafzai is the youngest ever Nobel laureate, awarded the Peace Prize in 2014 for her activism for the rights of all children to education, and for equal access to education for... The post Malala Yousafzai Interview appeared first on Dr. Rick Hanson. Read more
What can you do when you're shaken? Find your ground. It's clear that we all need a place to stand. A physical place to be sure - hearth and home, land and sea, a bed to curl up in - but also psychological or spiritual places, such as feeling loved, a calm clear center inside The post Find Your Ground appeared first on Dr. Rick Hanson. Read more
What’s Your Heart Saying? The Practice: Speak from the heart. Why? One Christmas I hiked down into the Grand Canyon, whose bottom lay a vertical mile below the rim. Its walls were layered like a cake, and a foot-high stripe of red or gray rock... The post Speak From The Heart appeared first on Dr. Rick Hanson. Read more
“A lot of what happens with loss of confidence, is that we undermine whatever confidence we may have. Humans have an amazing capacity to monitor everything – and that can begin to cause you a lot of trouble – because you’re monitoring that there’s a... The post Paul Gilbert: An Interview on Confidence appeared first on Dr. Rick Hanson. Read more
Rick’s Picks is a series of posts highlighting the very best content online. Drawing inspiration from the classic movie Powers of Ten, directed by Charles and Ray Eams in 1977, Cosmic Eye is an app featuring views of our Universe gathered by world-class scientists. With... The post Cosmic Eye: A Micro and Macrocosmic View of The Universe appeared first on Dr. Rick Hanson. Read more
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 consequences The post Love Someone appeared first on Dr. Rick Hanson. Read more
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