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Last April I taught Neuro-Bhavana: The Mindful Cultivation of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom in Our Brains and Our Lives at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, based on my book Hardwiring Happiness. The workshop was recorded and edited into 11 videos, which you can watch...

Nurturing yourself is what enables you to be at your best for your children. You work hard for the sake of your children and family, and that entitles you to respect, care – and stress relief....

The Four Noble Truths are the most fundamental teaching of the Buddha. Deceptively simple, they actually provide a profound explanation of human unhappiness, both gross and subtle, and how to attain increasingly positive states of mind, from stress relief in daily life to an unshakeable...

I hope you enjoy this very heart-warming and inspirational story about never giving up. ...

The inhibition profile of a particular person can be quite nuanced. For example, in terms of attachment theory, a person raised by a “dismissing” parent could worry about asking too much of others, and someone with an “inconsistent” parent –alternately intrusive and rejecting – could...

Here is the latest talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson and Will Pye. It's titled Will Pye - Blessed with a Brain Tumor. More information on the San Rafael Mediation group can be found at https://rickhanson.net/teaching/meditation-group....

3 things to help guide you to find peace: Stop Things from Building Up, Understand What's Making You Angry, Find Key Ways to Turn Anger into a Peaceful Heart...

Let’s consider ways to cultivate more peace of mind – and even its consummation in profound equanimity – by working with the eight gears of the machine of suffering that we explored in this earlier post. (There are other methods, too, that are more specifically...