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Natural Contentment II – Taking in the Good Meditation

November 18, 2011
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Part II of a talk and guided mediation given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in March, 2011. Your brain evolved a negativity bias that makes it like Velcro for negative experiences but Teflon for positive ones. Therefore, a foundation for happiness is to deliberately weave positive experiences into the fabric of your brain and your [...]

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Love the World

August 20, 2011
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Are we really so separate? The Practice: Love the world. Why? Your brain evolved in three stages (to simplify a complex process): Reptile – Brainstem, focused on AVOIDING harm Mammal – Limbic system, focused on APPROACHING rewards Primate – Cortex, focused on ATTACHING to “us” With a fun use (to me, at least) of animal [...]

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Natural Contentment – Taking in the Good Meditation

August 18, 2011
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Your brain evolved a negativity bias that makes it like Velcro for negative experiences but Teflon for positive ones. Therefore, a foundation for happiness is to deliberately weave positive experiences into the fabric of your brain and your self. Listen to Part II of the Natural Contentment Podcast – http://www.rickhanson.net/podcasts/natural-contentment2-taking-in-the-good-meditation Visit the podcast on iTunes [...]

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Give No One Cause to Fear You

August 11, 2011
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What puts people at ease? The Practice: Give no one cause to fear you. Why? We evolved to be afraid. The ancient ancestors that were casual and blithely hopeful, underestimating the risks around them – predators, loss of food, aggression from others of their kind – did not pass on their genes. But the ones [...]

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