Rick Hanson
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Rick Hanson Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Neuroscience, Meditation
- Best Sellers
- Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom.
- Career Focus
- Author, Speaker, Meditation Teacher
- Affiliation
- Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, Greater Good Science Center, UC Berkeley, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, APA, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a neuropsychologist and author of Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence.
You can follow Rick on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/rickhansonphd.
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Rick Hanson Audio & Video Programs
Buddha's Brain on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/buddhasbrain
The Enlightened Brain Online Course
http://bit.ly/RickHansonAudio
Awaken Your Brain
http://bit.ly/RickHansonAudio
Stress-Proof Your Brain
http://bit.ly/RickHansonAudio
Meditations for Happiness
http://bit.ly/RickHansonAudio
Meditations to Change Your Brain
http://bit.ly/RickHansonAudio
Rick Hanson Books
Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1572246952?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwrickhanson-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1572246952
Mother Nurture
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0142000620?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwrickhanson-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0142000620
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Turning a Negative Nelly Into a Positive Polly.
I’ve been talking about ways to Hardwire Your Happiness on the blog lately. So I thought it would be great to give you a sense of how it feels to take in the good. If you are someone who usually focuses on the negative experiences in the world you can turn that around over time by Taking in the Good. I’ll suggest some prompts here that you can use in your everyday life to start changing the negativity bias in our lives into Teflon for the positive. Take my prompt and go through the first three steps outlined below on your own. STEP 1. Have a positive experience
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Accept Difficulity
Sometimes things are difficult. Your legs are tired and you still have to stay on your feet another hour at work. You love a child who's finding her independence through emotional distance from you. A long-term relationship could be losing its spark. It's finals week in college. You're trying to start a business and it's struggling. You've got a chronic health problem or a disability. Sometimes people don't appreciate your work. You're being discriminated against or otherwise treated unjustly. The body ages, sags, and grows weary.
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Who are you, deep down?
For many of us, perhaps the hardest thing of all is to believe that "I am a good person." We can climb mountains, work hard, acquire many skills, act ethically - but truly feel that one is good deep down? Nah!
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Be At Peace With The Pain Of Others
Humans are an empathic, compassionate, and loving species, so it is natural to feel sad, worried, or fiery about the troubles and pain of other people. (And about those of cats and dogs and other animals, but I'll focus on human beings here.)
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Trust Yourself
As I grew up, at home and school it felt dangerous to be myself - my whole self, including the parts that made mistakes, got rebellious and angry, goofed around too loudly, or were awkward and vulnerable. Not dangers of violence, as many have faced, but risks of being punished in other ways, or rejected, shunned, and shamed.
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Be Mind Full of Good
It's kind of amazing: right now, what you think and feel, enjoy and suffer, is changing your brain. The brain is the organ that learns, designed by evolution to be changed by our experiences: what scientists call experience-dependent neuroplasticity.
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Be Amazed
Here are my top five inner practices for helping this year be a good one for you and others (click the links to see the first four):
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Recognize Suffering in Others
We’re usually aware of our own suffering, which – broadly defined – includes the whole range of physical and mental discomfort, from mild headache or anxiety to the agony of bone cancer or the anguish of losing a child. (Certainly, there is more to life than suffering, including great joy and fulfillment; that said, we’ll sustain a single focus here.)
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Take Heart
It takes heart to live in even ordinary times. By “taking heart,” I mean several related things:
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Love Someone
Sometimes something happens. Perhaps your sweet old cat takes a turn for the worse, or there’s a money problem, or your son waves goodbye as he gets on a plane to start college on the other side of the country. Sometimes it’s on a larger scale: maybe there’s been an election, and you’re grappling with its consequences. Or you might be dealing with something ongoing, like a dead-end job (or no job at all), life after divorce, chronic pain, or a teenager who won’t talk to you.
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Find Your Ground
I've been to New Zealand, and really respect and like it. There's a Maori term - turangawaewae, "a place to stand" - that I've come back to many times.
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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. Based on studies that have already been done, if a drug company could patent a happiness pill, we’d be seeing ads for it every night on TV.
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