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MindFull of GOOD |
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Dr. Rick Hanson's Occasional Collection of Good, Free Stuff
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NEW ON THE BEING WELL PODCAST:
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Trauma or Personality, When to Walk Away, and Burnout: October Mailbag |
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"It's important to appreciate that we may well have gotten that gain without the pain that went with it. So the fact that sometimes there's gain from stressful, traumatic experiences should never be used, obviously, to justify the conditions that created those traumatic or painful or
stressful experiences."
— DR. RICK HANSON
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Dr. Rick and Forrest open up the mailbag to answer listener questions about trauma and its impact on personality, boundaries, anger, and burnout. They discuss how to distinguish the authentic self from the patterns we needed to learn to survive, how to balance duty to self with duty to others, and how to work with explosive anger by first joining with it. Finally, they discuss the importance of moving from empathic distress to compassion in order to prevent caregiver
fatigue. Topics include cognitive defusion, taking a bird’s eye view, filling your own cup, and being with your feelings without judging them.
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NEW FROM THE WEDNESDAY TALK/MEDITATION:
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How to Shift Your Thoughts and Feelings about Others |
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It’s easy to feel hurt, frustrated, or reactive when others let us down — or when we’re caught in old patterns of resentment and blame. But we actually have the power to influence how we see, feel about, and respond to other people. So in this talk, I explored how to “love at will,” make positive deposits in our emotional memory bank, and draw on timeless Buddhist wisdom to live with more kindness, integrity, and peace — even when others are difficult.
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HAVE YOU READ IT YET?
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Buddha's Brain: 15th Anniversary Edition |
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With more than 500,000 copies in print since it was first published, I'm proud to announce the 15th Anniversary edition of my book Buddha's Brain, which features this new preface.
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ALSO NEW ON THE BEING WELL PODCAST:
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Emotional Regulation: How to Feel Your Feelings Flexibly |
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Dr. Rick and Forrest explore how emotional regulation helps us feel, manage, and process our emotions with greater skill and ease. They begin by unpacking common misconceptions and clarifying what healthy regulation looks like – feeling our feelings without being overwhelmed by them. From there, they walk through the three key steps of emotional regulation, focusing on practical tools like cognitive defusion and opposite action. Topics include interoception, the window of tolerance, cognitive bypassing, suppression/repression, and finding a balance between acceptance and agency.
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FREE ONLINE EVENT:
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Joyful Caregivers Summit |
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I’m excited to share that I’ll be speaking at the Joyful Caregiving Summit, a FREE online event designed to support caregivers caring for loved ones. You’ll hear from 21 experts in the areas that matter most to caregivers, including health, money, mindset, and daily living, sharing real-world
ways to bring more peace, joy, and confidence into your caregiving journey.
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ASK RICK:
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What can I do if I get flooded with thoughts or painful feelings, even traumatic ones, when I try to meditate? |
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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.
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"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."
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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.
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RICK'S PICK:
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The Listening Tour |
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Photo credit: Paul Jenkinson
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MindFull of Good is a free newsletter that highlights new and free content from Dr. Rick Hanson and the Being Well Podcast as well as other free offerings to fill yourself up with good.
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