From the Blog

Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled Presence, Letting Go, and Love. More information on the San Rafael Mediation group can be found here....

11 May, 2016

Most parents are busy one way or another most of the time and hitting the red line on stress. They look around and wonder, where's the support?...

08 May, 2016

If you’d like to be more motivated about certain things–such as exercising, eating healthy foods, or pushing through a tough project at work–focusing on what’s enjoyable about them will naturally draw you into doing them. ...

07 March, 2016

Fear arises when threats seem bigger than resources. Sometimes this is actually the case, such as getting an unexpected bill that you don’t have the money to pay. But due to “paper tiger paranoia,” threats often look larger than they really are while resources look...

07 March, 2016

Whether driving a car or going through life altogether, we need to be able to speed up skillfully . . . as well as slow down and even stop. How is it going with whatever you want to decrease or stop in your own life? Perhaps...

24 January, 2016

One of the secrets to a happy and productive life is to know how to help yourself come to want things that are good for you and others . . . that you don’t initially want that much. Find out how good you are at motivating...

10 January, 2016

Can you be as the occasion demands? How determined, patient, persistent, and (as needed) feral are you? Find out how much Grit you have, with this short quiz from my Foundations of Well-Being program: https://fwb.rickhanson.net/gritquiz ...

27 December, 2015

Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled Not So Hard on Yourself. More information on the San Rafael Mediation group can be found here....

23 December, 2015