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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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Mingyur Rinpoche: A Meditation Master on Anxiety, Awareness, and Awakening |
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"My panic attacks in the end became my teacher, my best friend."
— MINGYUR RINPOCHE
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Dr. Rick and Forrest are joined by Mingyur Rinpoche, a renowned Tibetan Buddhist teacher, to explore calming anxiety with awareness, relaxing unhealthy wanting, and finding a deeper sense of our innate goodness. Rinpoche shares how a near-death experience during his four-year “wandering retreat” transformed his relationship to fear and deepened his gratitude for life. They discuss practical ways to see the true nature of the mind, soften the grip of aversion and attachment, reframe fear as care,
and embrace impermanence as a path to freedom.
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FREE Worksheet:
Three Ways to Live with
Grief and Loss |
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If you're grappling with a loss, you may want to check out this Free PDF that offers 3 ways to work through your grief while still honoring what's been lost.
(And if you want to more support, you may want to join the Grief and Loss course that starts this weekend.)
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NEW FROM THE WEDNESDAY TALK/MEDITATION:
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How to Face Challenges without Suffering |
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So often we struggle with life’s challenges—reacting with stress, craving, or grasping—only to find ourselves adding suffering on top of difficulty.
In this talk, I explore the Buddha’s essential teachings on dukkha (suffering), sukha (well-being), and tanha (craving)—and how to navigate them skillfully so we can live with greater resilience, peace, and joy.
We’ll look at how pain becomes suffering, how pleasure can sometimes backfire, and most importantly, how to find the kinds of happiness that don’t depend on craving or clinging.
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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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Limerence: The Psychology of Romantic Obsession with Brandy Wyant |
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Forrest and therapist Brandy Wyant discuss limerence, an intense and often one-sided state of romantic obsession. They explore how limerence differs from both love and ordinary crushes, why uncertainty fuels it, and how it can take over a person’s inner world. Brandy shares both clinical insights and her own lived experience, describing the obsessive thoughts, compulsive behaviors, and shame that often accompany limerence. They examine its overlap with OCD and addiction, and discuss practical strategies from CBT and ACT.
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ASK RICK:
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I feel anxious and panicky around air travel. How can I most effectively use your HEAL technique to deal with this? |
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Fears of air travel are really common as you probably know. Very normal. Besides concerns about crashing, there is the loss of control or the feeling of being trapped when the door closes.
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"It’s helpful to be mindful of the specific triggers of the anxiety."
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In terms of what you could do, you could use HEAL to:
Internalize general resources for anxiety, such as relaxation, feeling loved, and sense of perspective (e.g., the odds of a bad event on your flight are vanishingly tiny);
Internalize specific resources for air travel, such as compassion for the other travelers and, ultimately, acceptance of whatever happens;
Do the Link step in which you focus on experiences of the resources above while also experiencing, off to the side of awareness, thoughts and feelings related to air travel.
Additionally, you could do a few sessions with a therapist, perhaps hypnotist, to do experiential practices, including the sort listed above, related to travel. I also know people who speak to a physician and take a little medicine before a flight, such as a “beta-blocker.”
Personally, I have a little ritual in which I bless the plane, imagine it surrounded by light, focus on compassion for the other passengers (I want them to be fine, too), and then accept and be at peace with whatever may happen. Works for me!
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RICK'S PICK:
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Voice for the Voiceless |
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This new book by the Dalai Lama captures his incredible
life journey - including what it means to lose your home to the repressive Chinese government - and envisions a path forward for the Chinese people.
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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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