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NEW ON THE BEING WELL PODCAST:

Dealing with a Mental Health Crisis, Trauma and Meditation, and Getting Back on the Wagon: January Mailbag

"What matters to you in this life? What are you going to do? Find the parts of you that want to start again. Find the parts of you that naturally lean in this direction and open more to them."
– Dr. Rick Hanson

Forrest and Dr. Rick open up the mailbag to answer questions from listeners. How can we understand and support someone going through a mental health crisis? Is meditation enough to heal trauma? And what can we do about family members that just won’t change? You’ll learn why offering help isn’t always helpful, how to deal with unskillful feedback, and approaches that help with setting and achieving long-term goals.

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As you probably know, it really is possible to change your brain, using the power of Positive Neuroplasticity. If you'd like to learn more about this process, and growing inner strengths, please join me for a free online talk on The Brain Science of Well-Being in partnership with Banyan on February 8 at 12pm PT.

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ALSO NEW ON THE BEING WELL PODCAST:

Deeper Mindfulness
with Dr. Danny Penman

Dr. Rick and Forrest focus on one of the most important skills we can learn: how we can become more aware of all the parts of our experience, avoid being captured by any one of them, and work with those parts more skillfully. Author and meditation teacher Dr. Danny Penman joins the show to explore how we can help our brain interpret the world more accurately and practical tools for relaxing suffering and enjoying life.

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ASK RICK:

Is it more impactful to link positive feelings around how a person survived their trauma in the past or here and now experiences of positivity to those negative feelings?

The key is to bring up a rich experience – in this case of a nurturing being – whether it is someone today or someone from the past when the trauma occurred. Just remembering that someone was helpful in the past (you didn’t say this, I am just mentioning this here for clarity) would not have the same impact in implicit memory as bringing up the experience of that soothing in the past, or an experience of soothing here and now.

"So I don’t think there is an inherent distinction in the power of experiences of past or present soothing/resilience: past or present could be more or less powerful depending on other details."

For example, when I bring up the felt sense of people in my childhood who were really for me, even though that emotional memory is less intense than that of my wife’s support for me these days, in some ways it (the childhood memory) goes deeper since it happened when I was a kid.

My own process is to feel the pain for sure, held in a big open space of awareness when I can, but also really focus on internalizing positive resources (mainly from positive experiences); check out the material on my website on taking in the good. In other words, be with the weeds in spacious mindful awareness while also diligently planting flowers in the garden of your mind/brain. Over time, the flowers will gradually crowd out the weeds.

Joy is not just a fleeting emotion — it's a vital aspect of a well-rounded, healthy life.
Join me and a remarkable group of people to help you get rid of the blocks that have been holding you back from having more of the inner peace, freedom, and joy you deserve. I’m thrilled to be speaking alongside presenters Tara Brach, Sharon Salzberg, Jack Kornfield, Sam Harris, Michael Beckwith, and many more.

NEW FROM FORREST:

Having Trouble with Motivation?

If you’re struggling to consistently pursue a goal, or feeling unfulfilled even while putting the effort in, it could be because most of your motivation is coming from extrinsic sources.

Check out this new article on how to motivate yourself from the inside-out to feel more competent, connected, and in control of your life.

RICK'S PICKS:

How To Love Yourself: 5 Ways to Let Go of the River Bank and Go With the Flow

Borrowing from the philosophy of Lao Tzu, this practice leads you into allowing the course of your life to unfold, while still making conscious decisions and accepting whatever happens.

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