Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

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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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:

0:20: 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.

19:30: Recap

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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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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: 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.

31:00: Recap

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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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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:

0:50: 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?

29:50: Recap

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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.

24:15: Recap

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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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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: 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.

28:55: Recap

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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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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: 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.

24:15: Recap.

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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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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 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.

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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.

29:25: Recap

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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

27:25: Recap

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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.

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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

25:30: Summary

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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

23:05: The positive spiral of taking in good experiences

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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

18:20: Recap

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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?

29:00: Recap

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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 mindfulness

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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.

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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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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.

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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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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.

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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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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: Recap

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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 strengths

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