MindFull of Good - Trauma, Meditation, Wanting, and More

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MindFull of GOOD

An Occasional Offering from Rick Hanson, Ph.D.

NEW ON THE BEING WELL PODCAST:

Healing Cycles of Trauma
with Dr. Mariel Buqué

"Most of us believe that if we open up our tenderness and expose it to folks, that's actually going to leave us in a place where we're going to dip into the black hole of darkness, and we won't be able to resurface from vulnerability. I see it as an opportunity to really liberate ourselves from the deepest parts of our wounds."
– Dr. Mariel Buqué

Dr. Mariel Buqué joins the Being Well Podcast to help us learn how we can heal from the past, create healthier patterns, and break cycles of trauma. Forrest and Dr. Buqué talk about what intergenerational trauma is, how we can “hand trauma down,” and how these problematic patterns show up in the real world.

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If you're looking to start a meditation practice this year (or deepen your existing practice), you may want to check out the free Art of Meditation Global Summit, which runs for 8 days starting January 23, with 55+ meditation experts (myself included!).

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ALSO NEW ON THE BEING WELL PODCAST:

Internal Family Systems: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness
with Dr. Richard Schwartz

Dr. Rick and Forrest are joined by Dr. Richard Schwartz, creator of the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model of therapy, to explore how we can integrate all the aspects of who we are. They explain the IFS model, the nature of parts and their roles, and how we can use this knowledge to increase self-awareness and deal with common problems.

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If you've been struggling with overwhelm or unexplained stress, you may have some trauma that is affecting your long-term health and well-being. If that sounds like it may be true, you might want to check out the Trauma Super Conference, where you'll delve into its impacts, get a variety tools for recovery, and start on a path of healing and personal growth.

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ASK RICK:

What can I do if I get flooded with thoughts or painful feelings, even traumatic ones, when I try to meditate?

It’s important to build up inner resources for meditating. Buddha’s Brain focuses on inner resources, especially the fourth chapter on taking in the good.

"A quick suggestion would be to find something that is reliably comfortable and peaceful in your experience – such as the breath, or an object of beauty, or a saying – and use that as your meditation anchor."

Maybe while standing or walking, to reduce the dissociation. And keep disengaging from painful thoughts; don’t fight them, ignore them. And from time to time look at them categorically; in other words, see their nature, the nature of all experience, all phenomenology: transient, made of parts, arising and passing away due to causes, insubstantial, an unreliable basis for lasting happiness; seeing them in this way, they have less weight.

NEW FROM FORREST:

Don't Know What You Want?

If I could highlight one area of growth that would immediately transform most people’s lives and relationships, it would be becoming more comfortable with our wants and needs.

Check out this new article on dealing with blocks to wanting, and learning how to figure out what we want.

RICK'S PICKS:

Speaking Up to Save a Believed-Extinct Language of Indigenous People Who Revered Silence

The last speaker of the Chaná indigenous language in Argentina, Mr. Blas Jaime, broke his silence after years of keeping a low profile, actively working to preserve and revive the language through various means, including creating a dictionary with over 1,000 Chaná words and collaborating with UNESCO to address the global issue of endangered languages.

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