Mindful Meditations with Dr. Rick Hanson
by Rick Hanson
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Resting in Heartfelt Presence
Resting in Heartfelt Presence
About this podcast
Led by psychologist and best-selling author Dr. Rick Hanson, these meditations provide a down-to-earth way to develop greater resilience, compassion, and happiness. More at rickhanson.com
Episodes
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- Resting in Heartfelt Presence · 34 minIn this guided meditation, you’re invited to cultivate heartfelt presence by grounding yourself in your body, settling into the present moment, and opening to qualities of…
- Tranquility and Spaciousness: Doorways into Stillness and Vastness · 33 minIn this guided meditation, I invite you to settle into a deep sense of tranquility, spaciousness, and inner peace. Beginning with gentle awareness of the body and breath, you’ll…
- Letting Go · 32 minIn this guided meditation, we explore letting go in the body and releasing craving, making room for a deeper sense of peace, contentment, and love. Learn how to soften physical…
- Finding Refuge in Inner Stillness and Peace · 33 minIn this guided meditation, you’re invited to settle into your body, quiet your mind, and discover a deep sense of tranquility and stillness beneath the busyness of everyday life…
- Steady, Quiet, and Whole · 35 minIn this guided meditation, Rick Hanson invites you to steady your attention, quiet your mind, and settle into a deeper sense of wholeness. Through mindful breathing, letting go…
- Resting in Peace, Contentment, and Love · 32 minThis meditation guides you to give yourself the gift of simply being present. Using the breath or another chosen anchor, you are invited to let thoughts, emotions, physical…
- Coming Home to Spaciousness and Lovingness · 33 minThis meditation invites you to settle into your body and the present moment, using the breath as a steady anchor. As thoughts, feelings, and sounds move through awareness, you…
- Absorption in Calm Strength · 33 minSettle into a sense of calm strength and open-hearted presence, grounded in the safety of this moment. This meditation helps you soften unnecessary guarding, rest in what is…
- Open Awareness, Settling into Stillness · 32 minSettle into a sense of being already full and whole, resting in the spaciousness of awareness so you can meet whatever comes with greater steadiness, openness, and love. You’re…
- Resting in the Courage and Goodness Inside You · 34 minIn this meditation, we’ll settle into the body, find a steadier ground beneath fear and anxiety, and get a felt sense of the courage, open-heartedness, and basic goodness that…
- Stable and Centered in a Shaky World · 34 minThis meditation invites you to rest in a grounded sense of self, cultivating the inner calm, compassion, and clarity needed to stay connected with others while honoring your own…
- Contemplating Awareness Itself · 32 minIn this meditation, guest teacher Melvin McLeod and Rick invite you to slow down, settle the mind, and gently notice your experience as it is, cultivating the insight…
- Rest in the Enoughness of Now · 34 minIn this meditation, I’ll guide you to become grounded in your body, release needless anxiety and striving, and rest in the peaceful sense that what you’re receiving in this…
- Establishing Posture, Simply Being · 34 minIn this meditation, I’ll guide you into a grounded, open sense of presence, where you can let go of striving, rest in simply being, and feel that you—and this moment—are already…
- Enjoying the Present · 35 minIn this gentle meditation, we’ll practice letting go of striving and returning to the simple peace of being. As we settle into the body, the breath, and the heart, we’ll explore…
- 3 Embodied Steps to Inner Peace · 35 minThis guided meditation moves from grounding in the body and releasing anxiety into opening the heart to kindness, compassion, and love. It invites you to relax effort and rest in…
- Finding Contentment in the Present · 34 minIn this meditation, I invited us to settle into the breath and discover the quiet well-being of contentment. Together, we explored what it feels like to let go of striving and…
- Letting Go of Fear, and Resting in Peaceful Confidence · 33 minYou’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always…
- Three Breaths to Rest in Love · 35 minYou’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always…
- Resting in Gladness, Rapture, Tranquility, and Happiness · 34 minIn this meditation, I invite you to set aside the concerns of the day and explore four nourishing states of mind: gladness, rapture, tranquility, and contentment. Together, we’ll…
- Resting in Openness, Lovingness, Peacefulness · 33 minYou’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always…
- Peaceful Stillness · 34 minIf you’re feeling stressed, caught up in striving, or carrying more than you need to, this meditation offers a chance to simply let go. Together we’ll rest in the enoughness of…
- Three Kinds of Calm · 34 minThis meditation guides you through three stages of calm: warm heartedness, contentment, and peace. It begins by settling into the body and breath, then opens into feelings of…
- A Spacious Open Heart · 31 minYou’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always…
- How to Let Go · 29 minYou’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always…
- How to Be Calmer . . . Now · 35 minYou’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always…
- The Wise Effort of Letting Go of Self · 30 minYou’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always…
- Equanimity: Inner Freedom with a Heart as Wide as the World · 35 minYou’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always…
- Cultivating a Mind Without Fear · 34 minIt’s easy to feel on edge these days—caught in a low hum of anxiety, tension in the body, and a mind that won’t quite settle. In this gentle meditation, I guide you in coming…
- Abiding as Awareness, Lovingness, Vastness · 35 minIf you often feel tense, contracted, or caught in your thoughts, this meditation helps you relax the body, steady the mind, and reconnect with a deeper sense of openness and…
- Enjoying Being, Releasing Becoming · 33 minWhen your mind won’t slow down—when you’re stuck in overthinking, bracing for what might go wrong, or feeling like you always need to do more—this meditation helps you step out…
- Stabilizing Open Presence · 35 minA gentle meditation for settling into the present moment, releasing effort and pressure, and resting in a natural sense of open, spacious awareness that is already here within…
- 5 Ways to Steady the Mind · 33 minA gentle, brain-based meditation for cultivating steady presence—helping you stay grounded in awareness, anchored in the breath and heart, and less carried away by passing…
- In the Enoughness of the Present · 34 minWhen the mind is restless, leaning into the future or caught in subtle striving, it can feel like something is always missing. In this meditation, we gently come home to the…
- Absorption into Tranquility · 34 minIn this meditation, you’re invited to gently settle your attention into feelings of peace and open-heartedness. As the mind grows more concentrated, these qualities can gradually…
- Resting in the Heart while Letting Go · 35 minA gentle meditation inviting you to rest in the heart, soften into trust, and practice letting go into the natural flow of experience. You’re welcome to join me live each week…
- You Are Whole and Complete, and There Is Nothing to Add · 34 minWhen life pulls you in many directions, it’s easy to stay tense or distracted, never quite at ease in your own being. This meditation invites you to settle where you are, release…
- What Matters, and What Doesn’t · 35 minThis meditation is a journey from the "trance of knowing"—that tight, anxious habit of trying to figure everything out—into the liberating space of presence. You’re welcome to…
- Steadying Your Mind and Quieting It · 35 minWhen you’ve been bracing against stress, holding tension in your body, or feeling like you always have to stay on guard, it can be hard to truly relax or feel safe inside…
- Sensing into Stillness · 34 minMany of us move through our days with a background sense of tension—bracing against uncertainty, aging, illness, or what might be coming next. This guided meditation offers a…
- Feeling Grounded, Peaceful, and Openhearted · 33 minWhen you’re feeling triggered, reactive, or on edge, this guided meditation helps you settle the nervous system and come back to a sense of basic okay-ness. We ground in the…
- In the Quiet That Opens into Everything · 34 minA gentle meditation to soften the edges of the self and rest in a sense of shared being. You’re invited to let go of differences, feel yourself being breathed by life, and settle…
- Mindfulness of Breathing – the Buddha’s Foundation Instructions · 34 minThis gentle, step-by-step meditation invites you to “come home” to yourself through mindful breathing and whole-body awareness. Guided by the Buddha’s original teachings—adapted…
- Simply Being · 33 minA gentle, spacious meditation for those moments when striving gets exhausting. Together we explore who you are when you’re not going anywhere or trying to fix anything—resting in…
- Resting in Stable Presence · 30 minIt's normal to feel overwhelmed by the chaos of modern life, and it's hard to have a steady mind when we're distracted, stressed, rattled, or ruminating about the things we feel…
- Resting in Deep Peace · 34 minThis meditation invites you to settle into a comfortable, kind presence with your body and breath, easing around tension and quieting inner speech so you can rest in simple, open…
- Resting in Open Awareness · 34 minThis meditation is an invitation to come home — to step out of busyness, worry, and striving, and rest in the present moment. Through open awareness, you’ll soften around…
- Resting in the Sense of Your Innate Goodness · 33 minWhen your mind feels busy, self-critical, or weighed down by worry, pain, or unrealistic expectations, it can help to settle the nervous system and come home to your body – which…
- Feeling Already Supported · 33 minWhen life feels unsteady — when anxiety pulls you into the future, when you feel unsupported, or when you’re carrying everything on your own shoulders — it becomes hard to…
- 4 Steps to Inner Peace · 34 minIf you’ve been feeling tense, fearful, or disconnected from yourself, this practice guides you back into a grounded, calm, openhearted state, so you can rest in your own being…
