Practical Wisdom with Dr. Rick Hanson
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Led by psychologist and best-selling author Dr. Rick Hanson, these talks provide a down-to-earth way to develop greater resilience, compassion, and happiness. More at rickhanson.com
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- The Two Keys to Any Kind of Change for the Better · 47 minSometimes a single moment of insight can change how we see ourselves or the world. But how do we turn that insight into something lasting? In this talk, I explore two essential…
- Four Ways to Let Go · 31 minWhat keeps us holding on to the thoughts, feelings, and experiences that cause us suffering? In this week’s talk, I explore four ways of letting go — in the body, of craving, in…
- How to Heal What’s Been Missing in Your Life · 47 minWhat happens when important emotional needs go unmet, especially when we’re young? Even with loving parents and a relatively good childhood, we can carry a lingering sense that…
- How to Heal the Emotional Baggage You’ve Been Carrying · 46 minWe all carry emotional baggage from the past. These old hurts, fears, insecurities, and patterns can continue to affect us long after the original experiences have passed. While…
- How to Rest in Peacefulness, Contentment, and Love · 29 minLife brings unavoidable pain, uncertainty, and loss, but it also offers countless opportunities to develop the inner resources that help us meet those challenges without becoming…
- How to Disentangle Yourself in Challenging Relationships · 32 minLife inevitably includes both change and loss, as well as sources of steadiness, meaning, and connection that endure. In this talk, I explore how we can meet the tangles of…
- How to Use Anxiety – and Not Be Used by It! · 37 minSometimes our anxiety is trying to tell us something important about a real threat, something we need to take care of, or someone we love. The trouble comes when anxiety keeps…
- 5 Ways to Take Things Less Personally · 45 minLife is going to bump into us. People will disappoint us, criticize us, misunderstand us, drop the ball, or sometimes genuinely treat us badly. The question is how to deal with…
- Why It’s So Hard to Set – and Keep – Healthy Boundaries · 42 minMost of us know, at least in principle, that it’s good to have healthy boundaries. The hard part is actually setting them — and then holding onto them when other people push…
- Why Good Boundaries Make Better Relationships · 46 minGood boundaries aren’t about pushing people away. In fact, they can help us feel closer, more open, and more at ease with the people we care about. When you know where you stand…
- Insight – The Power of Seeing Reality Clearly · 46 minThis week, I was joined by Melvin McLeod, editor-in-chief of Lion’s Roar and author of The Complete Path of Mindfulness, to explore what mindfulness can become when we see it as…
- How to Find Peace in the Present Moment · 45 minSo much of the mind is leaning into the future—anticipating what will happen, planning what we’ll do, worrying about what could go wrong, and getting attached to how we or other…
- Patience – Why We Need It, and How to Grow It · 30 minImpatience can be a surprisingly powerful source of stress, frustration, and conflict—especially when we’re waiting for something to change, dealing with difficult people, caring…
- How to Feel That You’ve Done Enough – and Are Enough · 43 minMany of us spend our lives quietly believing we need to do more, achieve more, or become more before we can finally feel at peace. What if the peace you’ve been searching for…
- How to Stop Ruminating · 42 minEven when nothing is particularly wrong, the mind can keep generating something else to want, solve, compare, worry about, or figure out. All that mental activity can be…
- Bows and Vows · 39 minMany of us move through life reacting to circumstances without pausing to consider what we’re truly devoted to. When we lose touch with our values and deepest intentions, it’s…
- Letting Go of Fear, and Resting in Peaceful Confidence · 40 minYou’re welcome to join me live each week for these talks — for free — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a…
- The Sweet Power of Kindness, Compassion, and Happiness for Others · 37 minWe often think of kindness and compassion as gifts we offer other people. But what if they were also among the most powerful ways to heal ourselves? In this talk, I explore three…
- Positive Emotions as Key Steps in the Path of Awakening · 45 minMany of us think of meditation and inner practice as serious, even grim work. But what if joy itself is part of the path? In this talk, I explored four emotionally positive…
- The Powerful Combination of Concentration and Insight · 40 minWe all know what it’s like to feel scattered, stuck in our own mental loops, unable to actually move through the hard stuff. What the Buddha was pointing to with “right…
