Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson
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Ep. 43: Aspiration with Dr. Dan Siegel
5 november 2018 · 1 uur 1 min
Today we’re beginning a new strength, Aspiration, with a conversation between Dr. Hanson and Dr. Dan Siegel. During this episode, Dr. Siegel will explain how you can use “mindsight" to tap into the dreams you had as a child, and honor those aspirations as an adult.
This interview is also a part of the Foundations of Well-Being online program. If you'd like to learn more about the Foundations of Well Being: https://thefoundationsofwellbeing.com/affiliate/38370
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The material in this podcast comes in large part from our book Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness. If you like the podcast, you'll love the book!
Timestamps:
1:15: Interview begins
4:00: Why has it been important to you, personally, to develop inner strengths?
8:25: How has your life experience contributed to your view of Aspiration?
14:55: How can you use Mindsight to tune back in to your childhood dreams?
21:20: Reclaiming the dreams of your youth.
29:45: What are some of the internal blocks people bump into?
38:30: Supporting the thriving of others.
46:15: How can we support the aspirations of younger people?
56:30: What advice would you give your younger self?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ep. 42: Repairing Relationships
29 oktober 2018 · 30 min
At even the best of times, our relationships require a natural process of correction – let’s call it repair – to clear up little misunderstandings and ease points of friction. Doing that skillfully is the focus of today's episode.
If you'd like to start making real, positive changes to your brain and your life, but you don't have a lot of extra time, then you may want to check out Rick Hanson's new program: Just One Minute. Use the code BEINGWELL at checkout for 10% off the purchase price.
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The material in this podcast comes in large part from our book Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness. If you like the podcast, you'll love the book!
Timestamps:
1:15: What are the common things that require repair?
3:25: The problem of resisting repair.
9:00: Checking our attributions and understandings.
15:30: Negotiating relevant values.
17:40: Know that your needs matter.
20:50: Expressing your needs clearly.
22:15: Scaling your relationships.
23:40: Repair as an expression of caring.
25:45: Leading with the good.
27:00: RecapLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ep. 41: How to Assert Yourself Effectively
22 oktober 2018 · 39 min
Relationships go smoothly when everyone wants the same thing. But how common is that? On this episode, Forrest and Dr. Hanson continue the strength of Courage by exploring how we can assert ourselves effectively.
If you'd like to start making real, positive changes to your brain and your life, but you don't have a lot of extra time, then you may want to check out Rick Hanson's new program: Just One Minute. Use the code BEINGWELL at checkout for 10% off the purchase price.
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The material in this podcast comes in large part from our book Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness. If you like the podcast, you'll love the book!
Timestamps:
1:15: Why do people struggle to assert themselves effectively?
3:10: Setting the stage for asserting yourself.
8:45: Keeping your eyes on the prize.
11:50: Commenting on process.
16:10: Focusing on the future.
18:15: What would it look like if you got what you wanted?
24:00: Make requests, not demands.
25:50: Making requests with dignity.
28:50: Consolidating your gains.
30:45: Make clear agreements.
32:15: How can I help you do this?
37:10: RecapLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ep. 40: Speaking from the Heart
15 oktober 2018 · 46 min
Think about the weight of what’s been unsaid in your relationships. What have the effects been on you and other people? Today we’ll explore how to express those undelivered communications, and "speak from the heart" with kindness and skill.
If you'd like to start making real, positive changes to your brain and your life, but you don't have a lot of extra time, then you may want to check out Rick Hanson's new program: Just One Minute. Use the code BEINGWELL at checkout for 10% off the purchase price.
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The material in this podcast comes in large part from our book Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness. If you like the podcast, you'll love the book!
Timestamps:
1:25: What do you mean by speaking from the heart?
3:00: What do we gain by speaking from the heart?
5:10: Speaking the positive as well as the negative.
6:20: The different dangers in speaking from the heart.
8:00: Establishing safety.
11:45: Being clear about our own facts.
15:30: What are the results you’re aiming for?
16:30: Talking about process.
21:20: Knowing your line in the sand.
22:30: Start by joining.
26:00: Leading with “I feel.”
28:15: Wise speech.
35:20: Continuing to practice empathy.
37:15: Nonviolent communication.
40:15: Honoring other people’s fundamental questions.
43:00: RecapLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ep. 39: People Aren't Dependable. Now What?
8 oktober 2018 · 23 min
We have a natural desire for a reliable world - but life happens, and no person or organization is perfectly dependable. Dr. Hanson and Forrest explore how we can learn to manage that natural undependability.
If you'd like to learn more about Dr. Hanson's online program The Foundations of Well Being, follow this link! Use the code BEINGWELL10 for 10% off the purchase price.
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The material in this podcast comes in large part from our book Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness. If you like the podcast, you'll love the book!
Timestamps:
2:00: Our expectations of dependability.
5:00: The undependability of experience.
7:30: The inevitability of disappointment.
12:30: Centering amidst disappointment.
17:00: Seeing what IS dependable.
20:40: Recap.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ep. 38: How to Keep Your Eyes On the Prize
2 oktober 2018 · 37 min
It’s easy to spend more time dwelling on the faults of others than reflecting on the room for improvement in oneself. Dr. Hanson and Forrest explore how "unilateral virtue" helps us focus on our side of the street, and keep our eyes on the prize.
If you'd like to start making real, positive changes to your brain and your life, but you don't have a lot of extra time, then you may want to check out Rick Hanson's new program: Just One Minute. Use the code BEINGWELL at checkout for 10% off the purchase price.
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The material in this podcast comes in large part from our book Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness. If you like the podcast, you'll love the book!
Timestamps:
1:10: Where does unilateral virtue come from?
3:15: Being virtuous without becoming a doormat.
7:20: Fulfilling expectations and creating a framework of trust.
12:20: Doing things out of the kindness of our heart.
14:50: How can we establish our personal code?
18:00: Ways to set and keep personal commitments.
20:10: The difference between inner and other directed.
24:00: Other tactics for maintaining unilateral virtue.
25:30: Staying calm during an irritating interaction.
29:00: Staying humble about how righteous you are.
31:35: Feeling “at choice.”
34:15: Recap.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ep. 37: Become Kinder and More Compassionate
24 september 2018 · 26 min
One would think it would be obvious, but the importance of warming the heart, and developing greater compassion and kindness as personal traits, is often overlooked in our important relationships. Dr. Hanson draws on 35+ years of couples counseling experience to teach us how to do just that.
If you'd like to start making real, positive changes to your brain and your life, but you don't have a lot of extra time, then you may want to check out Rick Hanson's new program: Just One Minute. Use the code BEINGWELL at checkout for 10% off the purchase price.
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The material in this podcast comes in large part from our book Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness. If you like the podcast, you'll love the book!
Timestamps:
0:45: The less obvious reasons to be compassionate and kind.
5:00: The difference between compassion and kindness.
9:00: Loving at will.
11:30: Ways we can increase our capacity for compassion and kindness.
14:00: Respecting the boundaries of others.
16:30: Compassion and kindness while maintaining clear boundaries.
18:10: The protection of warmheartedness.
19:35: The difference between doing a negative thing and receiving a negative response.
20:45: Being loving inside yourself.
21:35: Two equally valuable ways to be loving and kind.
22:40: Loving others helps heal our wounds around love.
24:15: RecapLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ep. 36: How to Become More Empathic
17 september 2018 · 35 min
One of the most important interpersonal skills is empathy, which allows us to tune into and understand other people. Dr. Hanson and Forrest continue their discussion on Intimacy by exploring how we can grow this key strength.
If you'd like to start making real, positive changes to your brain and your life, but you don't have a lot of extra time, then you may want to check out Rick Hanson's new program: Just One Minute. Use the code BEINGWELL at checkout for 10% off the purchase price.
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The material in this podcast comes in large part from our book Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness. If you like the podcast, you'll love the book!
Timestamps:
0:30: Why do we need to be empathic in order to be intimate?
1:50: Where does empathy come from biologically?
5:15: Summary of the three ways we can show empathy.
5:50: Is empathy a trait that can be developed?
8:15: Sustaining your attention to other people.
10:35: Letting yourself be truly affected by another person.
12:30: Empathic joining vs. problem solving.
13:55: Having empathy for perspectives very different from your own.
18:45: Ways to have empathy in the moment.
20:00: Feeling felt.
21:20: Using empathy responsibly.
22:00: Empathic imagination.
24:15: How to avoid playing the psychologist.
26:00: Being aware of true intentions.
27:40: Managing tone and using empathy to communicate.
30:25: Finding me and we through empathy.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ep. 35: Developing Intimacy and Autonomy
10 september 2018 · 37 min
Dr. Hanson and Forrest begin a new strength, Intimacy, with a discussion focused on how to balance two seemingly conflicting goals: maintaining our independence from other people while also forging emotionally intimate relationships with them.
If you'd like to start making real, positive changes to your brain and your life, but you don't have a lot of extra time, then you may want to check out Rick Hanson's new program: Just One Minute. Use the code BEINGWELL at checkout for 10% off the purchase price.
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The material in this podcast comes in large part from our book Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness. If you like the podcast, you'll love the book!
Timestamps:
1:40: How does intimacy support autonomy?
3:50: What does appropriate autonomy look like?
5:30: How does autonomy support intimacy?
8:50: The importance of choice.
10:25: Is there a biological basis for preferences for intimacy or autonomy?
12:35: The ways we inhibit ourselves.
16:10: Where do our inhibitions come from?
19:15: How issues with autonomy can disguise themselves as problems with intimacy.
21:55: The oppression of the internalized audience.
24:45: Focusing on your own experience.
26:20: How to build healthy emotional boundaries.
29:00: Remembering when things went well.
30:30: Asserting your autonomy inside your own mind.
34:15: The importance of balance.
35:20: RecapLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ep. 34: Learn to Pursue Your Goals
5 september 2018 · 31 min
On this unique episode, Forrest interviews Dr. Hanson about his personal story of motivation – including how to transform from someone who lacks a natural feeling of motivation to someone who can diligently pursue their goals.
If you'd like to start making real, positive changes to your brain and your life, but you don't have a lot of extra time, then you may want to check out Rick Hanson's new program: Just One Minute. Use the code BEINGWELL at checkout for 10% off the purchase price.
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The material in this podcast comes in large part from our book Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness. If you like the podcast, you'll love the book!
Timestamps:
2:00: Learning how to naturally motivate yourself.
5:00: Valuing your unique gifts.
6:30: Adding up an extra two hours.
8:30: Sustaining motivation through a long day.
11:45: Reducing the friction in your life.
14:10: The importance of taking decisive action.
17:00: The difference between motivation and discipline.
19:20: The feeling of commitment toward your goals.
26:00: Recognizing how limited our time is.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ep. 33: How to Motivate Yourself
27 augustus 2018 · 50 min
We all have things we know would be good to do, but it’s hard to do them. On this episode, Dr. Rick Hanson and Forrest focus on a key aspect of motivation: how we can incline our minds to break bad habits, and want the things that are good for it.
If you'd like to start making real, positive changes to your brain and your life, but you don't have a lot of extra time, then you may want to check out Rick Hanson's new program: Just One Minute. Use the code BEINGWELL at checkout for 10% off the purchase price.
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The material in this podcast comes in large part from our book Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness. If you like the podcast, you'll love the book!
Timestamps:
0:40: Why doesn’t just knowing that something is bad stop us from doing it?
2:55: How does motivation work biologically?
7:00: The importance of connecting good behaviors to direct rewards.
8:50: Becoming good at imagining rewards.
12:40: Internalizing reward along the way.
14:20: Imbuing simple tasks with meaning.
17:30: Bringing playfulness to what you do.
19:30: Is there genetic variation in how easily motivated people are?
23:35: Having empathy for biological differences between people.
27:40: The relationship between nature and nurture.
33:35: The value of fulfilling expectations.
37:25: Identifying novelty.
39:40: Finding the fun factor.
41:00: Self-nurturance vs. self-criticism.
46:15: RecapLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ep. 32: Use Passion Without Stress
20 augustus 2018 · 30 min
Dr. Hanson and Forrest continue the strength of Motivation by exploring how we can use healthy passion without falling victim to unhealthy righteousness, anger, and stress.
If you'd like to start making real, positive changes to your brain and your life, but you don't have a lot of extra time, then you may want to check out Rick Hanson's new program: Just One Minute. Use the code BEINGWELL at checkout for 10% off the purchase price.
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The material in this podcast comes in large part from our book Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness. If you like the podcast, you'll love the book!
Timestamps:
1:00: What’s the relationship between stress and passion?
3:50: Applying positive vs. negative emotion.
6:30: Why passion and “revving up” makes you vulnerable to stress.
11:30: Why can things BE great but FEEL wearing?
15:00: “Faking” passion, and the influence of culture.
17:20: Learning how to hit the gas, and then tap the brakes.
19:00: Four ways to stay in healthy passion.
27:50: RecapLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ep. 31: Motivation Without Attachment
13 augustus 2018 · 35 min
On this episode, Dr. Rick Hanson and Forrest begin the strength of Motivation with an episode that explores how we can pursue our goals with passion and purpose, without becoming painfully attached to them.
If you'd like to start making real, positive changes to your brain and your life, but you don't have a lot of extra time, then you may want to check out Rick Hanson's new program: Just One Minute. Use the code BEINGWELL at checkout for 10% off the purchase price.
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The material in this podcast comes in large part from our book Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness. If you like the podcast, you'll love the book!
Timestamps:
1:20: Why are liking and wanting different?
4:45: What causes us to tip from liking into wanting?
8:25: If liking is good and wanting is bad, why is it so easy to tip into wanting?
12:30: Forrest’s experience with video games.
16:45: Addiction and moments of lucidity.
19:10: Identifying wanting through drivenness.
21:00: Things that pull us into wanting.
24:30: How can we stay in liking?
29:00: The danger of auto-wanting.
30:45: Delusional desire.
32:45: RecapLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ep. 30: 7 Ways Past Anger
6 augustus 2018 · 40 min
Dr. Rick Hanson and Forrest conclude the strength of Calm with an episode dedicated to exploring seven ways we can work with anger skillfully.
If you'd like to start making real, positive changes to your brain and your life, but you don't have a lot of extra time, then you may want to check out Rick Hanson's new program: Just One Minute. Use the code BEINGWELL at checkout for 10% off the purchase price.
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The material in this podcast comes in large part from our book Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness. If you like the podcast, you'll love the book!
Timestamps:
0:35: Understanding the costs of anger
3:05: Never speaking or acting from anger
6:15: Reducing the priming for our anger
7:00: Reacting in proportion
10:00: Avoiding the habit of irritability
14:20: The tendency of fault-finding
16:30: The pitfalls of various kinds of talent
18:10: The story of the two monks
21:30: Know our near-enemies
24:30: The biology of slowing down
29:50: Walking away from excessive righteousness
33:00: Moral outrage in society
37:20: RecapLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ep. 29: Injustice and Anger
30 juli 2018 · 40 min
Dr. Rick Hanson and Forrest talk about managing one of our most difficult emotions: anger. Specifically, they focus on how we can distinguish between skillful and unskillful anger, particularly relating to issues of social justice.
If you'd like to start making real, positive changes to your brain and your life, but you don't have a lot of extra time, then you may want to check out Rick Hanson's new program: Just One Minute. Use the code BEINGWELL at checkout for 10% off the purchase price.
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The material in this podcast comes in large part from our book Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness. If you like the podcast, you'll love the book!
Timestamps:
1:15: The physical costs of anger.
3:40: The interpersonal costs of anger.
5:15: How can we remove the costs of anger without turning into a doormat?
11:00: Finding the line between skillful and unskillful anger.
18:00: Using anger to find our deeper wants and needs.
19:45: What tends to lie under anger?
24:45: Tribal anger and social justice
29:50: The importance of saying “I’m sorry.”
31:50: Tribal leaders and the value of mobilizing anger.
33:55: Outraged vs. enraged
35:45: RecapLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ep. 28: How to Feel Safe
23 juli 2018 · 37 min
Dr. Rick Hanson and Forrest discuss how we can fight back against fear and learn to feel safer. They explore ways to reduce anxiety, identify resources, and deal with the real challenges of life.
If you'd like to start making real, positive changes to your brain and your life, but you don't have a lot of extra time, then you may want to check out Rick Hanson's new program: Just One Minute. Use the code BEINGWELL at checkout for 10% off the purchase price.
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The material in this podcast comes in large part from our book Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness. If you like the podcast, you'll love the book!
Timestamps:
0:30: What causes fear?
2:30: Feeling reasonable safety.
7:15: Anxiety in the body.
9:00: Identifying the resources we have to fight threats.
12:30: How can we feel safer during REAL threats?
14:25: The importance of growing resting-state resources.
16:25: Three ways to deal with immediate threats.
20:00: Ways to approach the fear of truly dreadful things.
24:55: Reducing steady-state anxiety.
27:50: Dealing with anticipatory dread.
34:00: RecapLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ep. 27: Avoiding Needless Fear
17 juli 2018 · 27 min
Dr. Rick Hanson and Forrest discuss how to manage and reduce a particular kind of fear: paper tiger paranoia. This fear is characterized by needless anxiety that comes from the brain’s creation of imaginary threats.
If you'd like to start making real, positive changes to your brain and your life, but you don't have a lot of extra time, then you may want to check out Rick Hanson's new program: Just One Minute. Use the code BEINGWELL at checkout for 10% off the purchase price.
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The material in this podcast comes in large part from our book Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness. If you like the podcast, you'll love the book!
Timestamps:
1:00: What does “paper tiger paranoia” mean?
3:25: How do “tigers” appear in the modern day?
4:45: Why paper tigers crowd out real ones.
6:20: Hidden costs of paper tiger paranoia.
8:20: The insidiousness of fear.
11:00: Recognizing sources of needless anxiety.
17:45: Fighting back against fear.
20:30: Fear, agency, and acceptance.
23:30: RecapLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ep. 26: Use Calm to Fight Stress
9 juli 2018 · 32 min
Dr. Hanson and Forrest begin a new series of episodes exploring the strength of Calm. Particularly, they focus on how we can learn to activate the calming wing of the nervous system to fight back against stress.
If you'd like to start making real, positive changes to your brain and your life, but you don't have a lot of extra time, then you may want to check out Rick Hanson's new program: Just One Minute. Use the code BEINGWELL at checkout for 10% off the purchase price.
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The material in this podcast comes in large part from our book Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness. If you like the podcast, you'll love the book!
Timestamps:
1:30: Why is calm an important inner strength?
3:20: The dangers of being hijacked by fear.
7:05: The biological basis of calm.
11:05: Modern culture and the sympathetic nervous system.
12:30: Understanding your needs.
15:15: Developing a wide range of response.
17:20: The ease of being driven from the green zone.
19:20: Ways to calm down.
23:00: State calm vs. trait calm.
28:00: The importance of tranquility.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ep. 25: How to Feel "Like a Good Person"
2 juli 2018 · 22 min
It's often surprisingly hard to feel like a good person...even if we are one! Dr. Hanson and Forrest wrap up the strength of Confidence by exploring how we can authentically feel like a good person from the top-down and the bottom-up.
If you'd like to start making real, positive changes to your brain and your life, but you don't have a lot of extra time, then you may want to check out Rick Hanson's new program: Just One Minute. Use the code BEINGWELL at checkout for 10% off the purchase price.
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The material in this podcast comes in large part from our book Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness. If you like the podcast, you'll love the book!
Timestamps:
0:30: What is “feeling like a good person?”
3:00: Why is it hard to feel like a good person?
6:00: Comparing part of our lives to all of another’s.
7:00: Why is it good to feel like a good person?
11:00: Ways to grow the feeling of being a good person.
17:00: Top-down vs. bottom-up
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Ep. 24: Managing Your Inner Critic
25 juni 2018 · 27 min
There are two “characters” we all have inside our minds: an inner critic and an inner nurturer. Dr. Hanson and Forrest focus on how we can manage our inner critic while building up a strong inner nurturer.
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Timestamps:
0:40: What is an inner critic and an inner nurturer?
2:15: Do we have these voices in balance?
4:30: 3 things we can do to limit the influence of the inner critic.
7:55: Balancing too much and too little criticism.
10:00: What value can we take from the inner critic?
11:50: The experience of a child.
14:15: Building up your inner nurturer.
17:20: What the inner nurturer feels like.
19:00: How we feel inside vs. how we act towards others.
20:30: How to stop the inner critic before it gets going.
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BONUS: Paul Gilbert on Confidence
18 juni 2018 · 1 uur 11 min
On today’s episode of the Being Well Podcast, Dr. Hanson interviews Dr. Paul Gilbert, professor of clinical psychology at the University of Darby and the founder of compassion focused therapy. They explore how we can grow a healthy sense of self-worth, be honest without being critical, and stop undermining our own confidence.
The content of today's episode was taken from Dr. Hanson's online course, The Foundations of Well-Being.
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Ep. 23: Stop Punishing Yourself
13 juni 2018 · 24 min
Our negative reactions to the painful experiences of life that are often more harmful than those experiences themselves. Dr. Hanson and Forrest explore how we can avoid these “second darts."
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Timestamps:
0:40: What are the first and second darts?
2:50: An example of first and second darts.
5:15: Finding where you have influence.
7:15: Avoiding adding second darts.
12:30: Not fueling second darts.
15:00: Changing the channel on second darts.
15:50: Managing second darts in relationships.
18:55: Sticking to first darts when communicating.
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Ep. 22: Secure and Insecure Attachment
4 juni 2018 · 43 min
Attachment Theory is one of the most important frameworks in psychology. Dr. Hanson and Forrest explore why this theory is so relevant for everyday life, and how adults who may have had challenging childhood relationships can become more securely attached in the here and now.
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Timestamps:
1:00: The spectrum of confidence.
2:10: How does confidence “get into” the brain?
4:30: Learning confidence.
5:45: Why do we care so much about the opinions of other people?
10:30: The link between social and physical pain.
12:45: Secure and insecure attachment.
20:00: Attaching differently to different kinds of people.
23:50: How to become more securely attached.
30:30: Why does creating a coherent narrative help us become more securely attached?
35:50: Being someone others can securely attach to.
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Ep. 21: How to Be Happy for Other People
28 mei 2018 · 25 min
There is one form of happiness that is always available: happiness for others. Dr. Hanson and Forrest explore how feelings of altruistic joy can be a powerful antidote for experiences of disappointment and envy.
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Timestamps:
0:30: Why is happiness for others such a reliable resource?
1:20: Why is feeling happy for others good for us?
3:15: Finding happiness for difficult people.
5:40: Mending relationships through happiness for others.
7:50: The naturalness of envy and jealousy.
12:15: Letting people land.
17:05: Working through blocks to altruistic joy.
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Ep. 19: Take in the Good
14 mei 2018 · 22 min
So many good things happen to us that we don't take the time to fully take in. Dr. Hanson and Forrest look at the role fully taking in the good things in life has in the process of building mental strengths.
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Timestamps:
0:20: Why focus on taking pleasure.
1:45: The many little opportunities to take pleasure.
4:05: The psychological benefits of pleasure.
6:50: Why do so many people struggle with taking pleasure?
9:45: Consumption vs. appreciation
13:00: How can we get better at taking pleasure?
16:00: Finding pleasure through relating.
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Ep. 18: Why Gratitude Is a Gift to Yourself
7 mei 2018 · 33 min
We think of gratitude as a gift to others, but it's often a wonderful gift to ourselves. Dr. Hanson and Forrest move on to the fifth of the twelve strengths they’ll be covering during this series: Gratitude. During this episode they explore the role of positive emotions generally, and particularly the value of “thankfulness.”
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Timestamps:
1:00: Why use “gratitude” as a blanket term for positive emotions?
1:45: What benefits do positive emotions have for mental health?
5:55: Why did you choose to focus your work on increasing positive experiences rather than reducing negative ones?
8:15: What are the psychological benefits of “thankfulness?”
12:20: Critiques of telling people to ‘just be grateful for what they have.’
17:00: Dealing with blocks to thankfulness.
23:30: How can we become more thankful?
28:25: Using gratitude to move into agency.
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Ep. 20: Forming a Healthy Relationship with Goals
5 mei 2018 · 33 min
How can we set and stick to our goals without getting overly attached to them or punishing ourselves if we backslide? Dr. Hanson and Forrest explore how we can feel more successful by noticing the many small goals we accomplish each day, and fully internalizing that experience so it becomes a lasting resource.
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Timestamps:
0:50: Why is having a healthy relationship with our goals so important for mental health?
4:30: How can we achieve a more healthy relationship with our goals?
6:35: The social pressures that help us feel unsuccessful.
8:30: What are process goals?
9:55: What are outcome goals?
10:20: The many opportunities to meet our goals.
11:40: Hacking the natural pleasure systems in the brain.
14:25: If we have so many opportunities to experience success, why don’t we?
17:50: What about when we aren’t successful? How can we better manage those feelings of failure?
21:30: Risking the “dreaded experience.”
24:30: Isn’t the fear of failure really motivating though?
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Ep. 17: Relating to Your Body
30 april 2018 · 25 min
Learn how to form a more positive relationship with your body by accepting, nurturing, and appreciating it. Dr. Hanson and Forrest discuss key elements of the strength of Vitality, and how it relates to Grit.
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Timestamps:
0:50: How does the physical resource of “vitality” impact the mental strength of “grit”?
2:10: How accepting the body helps us nurture the body.
4:10: Why is it so hard for people to accept their bodies?
8:10: How can we become more accepting of our bodies?
11:45: A practice for accepting the body.
14:00: The importance of appreciating the body.
16:30: A practice for thanking the body.
18:30: How can we form good habits around our physical practices?
22:10: Taking action on any given day, focusing on your effort rather than results.
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Ep. 16: Using Your Fierceness
23 april 2018 · 31 min
Dr. Hanson and Forrest talk about a particularly challenging aspect of the strength of determination: fierceness. They explore how the ‘feral’ parts of our mind can be a powerful resource, and how we can use that inner strength rather than be used by it.
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Timestamps:
0:40: What does “fierceness” mean?
3:20: How fierceness fuels determination.
5:20: Is how we think about fierceness defined by our individual experience?
6:20: Different ways to think about the ‘feral’ experience.
8:45: The difficulty in articulating this material.
9:15: Using all the material in the psyche as a potential resource.
12:00: Pitfalls relating to fierceness.
16:20: The burden of proof when being fierce.
18:00: The two pitfalls related to fierceness.
19:30: Increasing our comfort with fierceness.
24:50: Strengthening our own cores.
27:25: Taming the beast by allowing it to run.
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Ep. 15: How to Become More Determined
18 april 2018 · 26 min
On today’s episode of the Being Well Podcast, Dr. Rick Hanson and Forrest continue their focus on the strength of Grit with determination. Particularly, they look at the different aspects of determination, and explore how we can grow each of them over time.
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Timestamps:
0:35: How “determination” relates to grit.
2:00: Being determined to a fault.
2:50: What determination is made up of.
3:55: Being resolved toward a goal.
8:00: Balancing patience with agency.
9:30: Realistic expectations enabling patience.
11:45: How much patience is too much?
12:30: The marshmallow test.
15:00: Distress tolerance.
16:25: How can you help yourself enjoy persistence?
21:30: What do we mean by “fierceness?”
23:15: Issues with fierceness.
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Ep. 14: The Power of Agency
9 april 2018 · 27 min
On today’s episode of the Being Well Podcast, Dr. Hanson begins a new focus on the fourth of the twelve strengths he’ll be covering throughout this series: Grit. Particularly, this episode explores how to grow agency – an aspect of grit where we feel like a cause rather than an effect.
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Timestamps:
0:30: What is grit?
0:50: How does physical grit support psychological grit?
4:45: Can we grow grit?
5:45: Why agency is important for growing grit.
6:45: How agency fights against “learned helplessness.”
9:30: How can we “unlearn” learned helplessness?
16:10: What can we do when we ACTUALLY are helpless?
18:00: Being realistic about the amount of power we have over our lives.
19:30: Finding small ways to express agency.
21:00: Focusing on causes rather than effects.
24:55: Recap.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ep. 13: Remove the Bad with the Good
2 april 2018 · 32 min
Dr. Rick Hanson and Forrest discuss "linking" - how we can use new, positive experiences to soften and eventually replace old, negative ones.
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Timestamps:
1:20: What is linking?
2:20: An example of linking.
3:50: How does linking work in the brain?
5:50: How removing old, painful experiences works in the brain.
8:30: How we can remove old pains.
10:10: Quick recap
11:05: The two opportunities to remove negative material.
13:20: The two problematic ways people deal with upsets.
14:05: The better way to approach upsetting situations.
15:20: Matching the right positive experiences to the negative experience.
16:00: The pitfalls of linking.
17:55: Why negative material isn’t “bad.”
18:30: The third option found in linking.
19:45: The difference between wounds and deficits.
20:30: The three levels of engaging negative material.
23:30: Pulling the tip of the root.
24:00: How to talk to your young experiences.
27:10: The three conditions for linking.
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Ep. 12: Finding What You Really Need
27 maart 2018 · 30 min
On today’s episode of the Being Well podcast, Dr. Hanson and Forrest talk about how we can find and use “key resource experiences” – experiences that we can match to our unique vulnerabilities in order to grow the strengths we need the most.
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Timestamps:
0:45: What is a key resource experience?
1:45: What would be useful in dealing with your issues?
2:30: How to identify your key resources.
4:00: What were the times when you were at your best?
5:15: Identifying the vulnerabilities we match key resources to.
7:40: How do our vulnerabilities relate to our needs?
10:50: Matching key resources to specific needs.
11:15: Resources for anxiety, anger, and helplessness.
13:45: Feeling alright, right now.
15:35: Resources for satisfaction.
18:45: The importance of resourcefulness.
19:30: Resources for connection.
21:05: Means vs. Ends
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Ep. 11: Make Your Learning Last
19 maart 2018 · 32 min
How can we help the brain "absorb" the things we want it to hold on to? Dr. Rick Hanson explores the “installation” stage of learning in detail, including how we can internalize the various positive aspects of any experience to grow the strengths we need the most.
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Timestamps:
0:50: What attracted you to “learning”?
3:15: The “dirty secret” of the personal growth professions.
5:05: The five ways we can enrich our experience.
8:10: Multimodality: how to learn through the different aspects of experience.
9:00: Why writing affirmations rarely works.
9:55: Bridging the gap between thought and experience.
13:30: Our many opportunities for learning.
14:30: How to make our experiences feel novel.
16:40: How to make our experiences feel relevant.
18:20: How to absorb experiences.
19:50: Letting experiences into our body.
24:10: Changing our relationship to experiences
25:30: The power of “retroactive rehearsal.”
28:00: The foundation of learning.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ep. 10: H.E.A.L. Yourself
12 maart 2018 · 27 min
HOW can we grow the positive traits we want more of inside ourselves? On this episode Dr. Hanson explains the HEAL process that allows us to learn from our experiences more effectively.
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Timestamps:
0:40: Why is learning an inner strength?
2:40: The superpower of superpowers
5:35: What does emotional learning FEEL like?
7:50: An example of learning that sticks
10:05: What’s happening in the brain when we’re learning?
13:05: Using the mind to change the brain.
14:55: The opportunity in every day.
16:55: The stages of the learning process.
19:05: The importance of installation.
20:10: The H.E.A.L. process of learning
23:05: The feeling of enriching and absorbing
23:45: Linking
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Ep. 9: Respond, Don't React
5 maart 2018 · 28 min
Learn how to respond to challenges from the “green zone” of the brain rather than reacting instinctively from the “red zone.” Dr. Hanson and Forrest explore the biology behind these two systems, the role of mindfulness in moving from one to the other, and how to combat the brain’s evolved negativity bias.
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Timestamps:
0:45: The difference between “responding” and “reacting”
3:05: Responding vs. reacting in practice
6:45: The biology behind responding and reacting
9:10: The negative cycle of reacting
10:20: If reacting is stressful, why do we have that system?
12:40: Mindfulness and our reactions
13:25: What makes people respond rather than react?
16:20: The “quantity” vs. “quality” effect of green and red zone experiences
20:40: The cumulative effect of negative experiences
21:45: How to limit the impact of negative experiences
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Ep. 8: How to Meet Your Needs
27 februari 2018 · 20 min
Dr. Hanson explains why it’s not so bad to be “needy.” We all have needs for safety, satisfaction, and connection, the question is how can we meet them skillfully?
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Timestamps:
0:30: Why needs?
1:15: The three needs
2:55: Superficial needs
5:00: The role of mindfulness
6:00: Objections to our needs
7:00: Getting comfortable with neediness
7:50: The evolution of needs
9:00: How to address deep, rather than superficial, needs
11:30: How we can learn to distinguish between deep and superficial needs
13:00: The importance of internalization
14:20: Finding and meeting your key needs
16:20: Meeting needs by growing resources
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Ep. 7: Dealing with the Mind
20 februari 2018 · 31 min
The mind is a dangerous neighborhood, and there are three ways we can skillfully 'deal with' the often problematic neighbor that lives in our heads. Rick and Forrest explore how we can be with our experience, let go of negative thoughts and feelings, and plant new flowers in the garden of the mind.
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Timestamps:
0:30: What do we mean by ‘dealing with the mind?’
3:00: The three ways to deal with the mind
4:50: Why the mind is like a garden
7:00: How mindfulness applies to dealing with the mind
9:30: Why intervention can be diagnostic
11:00: How to practically work through negative material
12:45: How is opening to your ‘experience’ different from opening to your ‘trip’?
14:45: Why the mind is like a septic tank
16:20: Sensing beneath the surface of the mind
19:45: Language, planning, and the brain
22:15: Experiencing things ‘out’
23:10: Being kind to yourself
24:00: How do we get ‘good things’ into the brain?
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Ep. 6: Mindfulness
12 februari 2018 · 20 min
Dr. Hanson and Forrest begin this month's topic of Mindfulness by focusing on how we can use mindfulness in practical ways in the flow of our daily lives.
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Timestamps:
0:45: What do we mean by "mindfulness"?
2:05: Two ways to apply mindfulness
3:45: Mindfulness as a tool
5:15: What are you using mindfulness to DO?
6:15: How can we use mindfulness to grow strengths?
9:00: The banquet table of life
10:10: Benefits and pitfalls of mindfulness
10:55: Why does mindfulness cause us to develop positive traits?
11:40: How can we become more mindful moment to moment?
13:00: The brain's unreliable narration
14:25: Being mindful of our own tendencies
16:40: How to grow mindfulnessLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ep. 5: Take the Time to Enjoy Life
5 februari 2018 · 18 min
Dr. Rick Hanson explains why enjoying life is both easy to dismiss and surprisingly hard to do. Particularly, he explores how we can authentically find enjoyable moments even during very difficult times in our lives.
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Timestamps:
0:35: Why is enjoying life a strength to develop?
2:00: Enjoyment and the brain
3:15: The importance of key experiences.
4:30: Our cultural pitfalls around enjoyment.
7:30: How do we grow strengths? The problem with having a “stiff upper lip.”
8:40: What needs to be present alongside adversity for it to become an inner strength?
11:00: Learning from bad experiences.
12:15: Experiencing vs. Internalizing.
15:15: Finding enjoyment anywhere.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ep. 4: Accept to Grow
29 januari 2018 · 20 min
On this episode of the Being Well Podcast, Dr. Hanson and Forrest focus on the importance of acceptance. Particularly, they talk about how an authentic moment of acceptance can be a catalyst for positive growth.
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The material in this podcast comes in large part from our book Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness. If you like the podcast, you'll love the book!
Timestamps:
0:30: The importance of facing what's true.
1:45: Feeling acceptance along with something else.
2:40: Using acceptance as a catalyst for creating change.
4:10: How can I turn "acceptance" into something useful?
5:25: What are we accepting?/Aspects of acceptance.
8:30: Can we accept elements of ourselves?
9:55: How can we get better at acceptance?
10:35: The house of the self.
13:00: Practices to grow self-acceptance.
15:45: The fastest way to defuse an argument.
18:35: Recap and close.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ep. 3: How to Grow Self-Compassion
22 januari 2018 · 18 min
How we can use self-compassion to reduce rumination, feel safe while taking big risks, and improve our relationships with other people. Dr. Hanson and Forrest also explore what makes self-compassion different from self-pity or being on your own side.
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The material in this podcast comes in large part from our book Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness. If you like the podcast, you'll love the book!
Timestamps:
0:15: What are the benefits of self-compassion?
1:30: How is self-compassion different from "being on your own side"?
1:55: What's the difference between self-compassion and self-pity?
2:30: How can we be compassionate to ourselves without coming across like a complainer?
4:20: The fastest way to get people to stop talking AT you.
5:55: Using self-compassion to fight rumination
8:15: The function of rumination: avoiding a dreaded experience.
11:00: How to become more self-compassionate.
16:53: Summary and ending.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ep. 2: Being On Your Own Side
16 januari 2018 · 19 min
Dr. Hanson focuses on the importance of self-compassion - and particularly on why it's important to get "on your own side" in order to create lasting, positive change in the brain.
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The material in this podcast comes in large part from our book Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness. If you like the podcast, you'll love the book!
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Timestamps:
0:35: Why start with compassion?
2:10: Why it's important to be on your own side.
4:30: Why does being for yourself promote well-being?
5:45: The importance of coping.
7:30: How do we get better at being for ourselves?
11:15: How to be consistent AFTER inspiration passes.
17:05: RecapLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ep. 1: Introducing Resilience
10 januari 2018 · 15 min
What does it mean to truly be Resilient? Dr. Hanson explains the importance of Resilience and HOW we can grow the most important strength for achieving reliable happiness.
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Timestamps:
0:30: Why resilience is important
2:05: The HOW of growing key strengths
5:00: Dealing with challenges/What's in your backpack?
6:30: Resources, challenges, and vulnerabilites
7:40: Changing the brain for the better
9:45: How is this different from just "positive thinking"?
11:10: The negativity bias
13:45: The hopefulness of growing strengthsLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices