The pressure activates motivational circuits but has inherent collateral damage. Pressure activates ancient motivational circuits that were very effective in keeping our ancestors alive but even at best, there is an inherent collateral damage....
Rick and Forrest explore forgiveness, including how we can forgive ourselves. This includes common myths and misunderstandings about forgiveness, the difference between healthy and unhealthy forms of shame and remorse, coming to terms with what we've done, and a roadmap to achieving (self-)forgiveness....
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Skillful and Unskillful Patience in Your Relationships....
Encourage love in all its forms to flow through you. Implicitly, and more fundamentally, this practice means a relaxed opening into the love – in a very very broad sense – that is the actual nature of everything. ...
We explore with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk how trauma keeps us stuck, and how we can use imagination, self-expression, and creativity to break away from those old patterns....
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Appreciating Humanness in Others - and Yourself....
Hug the monkey inside yourself helps satisfy an innate human need for connection can remedy old pain and provides that fundamental human sustenance: love....
Rick and Forrest answer questions from listeners, including what they’re still working on in their relationship, how we can disengage from obsessive thoughts and old patterns, Rick’s thoughts on psychedelics and how they can be used with discernment, and their views on whether human nature...