Author: Rick Hanson

We need to know the facts: is the stove turned off, do I have health insurance, does my partner love me, are the people who work for me getting the job done? We also need to know our values: what is fair, decent, good, and...

The Eightfold Path is the fourth of the Buddha's Noble Truths, and he described it as the way that leads to the uprooting of the causes of suffering, and thus to increasingly stable and profound peacefulness, wisdom, virtue, and happiness....

As profoundly social primates, we have a normal longing for others to find the buried treasure inside of us - but we must express ourselves for this to happen. Find out how comfortable you are expressing yourself, with this short quiz from my Foundations of Well-Being...

During this time, we could all use more understanding and relating to one another. Did you know that requires a healthy prefrontal cortex (PFC) otherwise we will biologically default to our fight-or-flight response? It's simply in the way we are wired. Relating to one another...

Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled, "The Awakening Factor of Investigation" More information on the San Rafael Meditation group can be found here....