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Why is it easier to ruminate over hurt feelings than it is to bask
in the warmth of being appreciated?
Because your brain evolved to learn quickly from bad experiences
but slowly from the good ones.
You can change this.
Hardwiring Happiness lays out a simple method that uses the hidden
power of everyday experiences to build new neural structures full
of happiness, love, confidence, and peace. Dr. Hanson's four steps
build strengths into your brain-- balancing its ancient negativity
bias--making contentment and a powerful sense of resilience the new
normal. In mere minutes each day, we can transform our brains into
refuges and power centers of calm and happiness.
Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, Gandhi, and the Buddha all had brains built
essentially like anyone else's, yet they were able to harness their
thoughts and shape their patterns of thinking in ways that changed
history. With new breakthroughs in modern neuroscience and the
wisdom of thousands of years of contemplative practice, it is
possible for us to shape our own thoughts in a similar way for
greater happiness, love, compassion, and wisdom. Buddha's Brain
joins the forces of modern neuroscience with ancient contemplative
teachings to show readers how they can work toward greater
emotional well-being, healthier relationships, more effective
actions, and deepened religious and spiritual understanding. This
book will explain how the core elements of both psychological
well-being and religious or spiritual life-virtue, mindfulness, and
wisdom-are based in the core functions of the brain: regulating,
learning, and valuing. Readers will also learn practical ways to
apply this information, as the book offers many exercises they can
do to tap the unused potential of the brain and rewire it over time
for greater peace and well-being.
'A nourishing, useful, and timely book' - Lori Gottlieb, New York
Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk To Someone
Relationships are a cornerstone of happiness and key to living a
full life. But relationships are not given, they are made. In his
breakout new book, New York Times bestselling author Rick Hanson
offers the fundamental tools and skills to foster happy, lasting
and fulfilling relationships in all areas of life. Making Great
Relationships offers 50 simple practices that we can all easily add
in to our everyday life. Bringing together ground-breaking
research, Hanson reveals that relationships are not fixed entities
but instead each of us has the power to make our relationships
every single day with our thoughts and words. This empowering book
is an essential guide to making your relationships great.
A quick-relief guide for calming anxiety and stress right
now-during the COVID-19 pandemic If you're feeling unprecedented
levels of stress and anxiety right now, please know that you aren't
alone. In these extreme and uncertain times, it's natural to be in
a constant state of mental and physical strain. Whether you're
dealing with job loss, a sick loved one, or just feeling the weight
of the world during your 2 a.m. doomscroll-you need quick tools you
can use right now, whenever and wherever you are, to lower stress
and soothe anxiety. This emergency kit has you covered. Written by
a dream team of mental health experts and grounded in
evidence-based therapy, The Anxiety First Aid Kit offers powerful
tools for triaging stress and anxiety in the moments when you need
it most. You'll find easy and doable ways to help you press pause
on panic, and find your calm spot right away. You'll discover
in-the-moment interventions to help you relax before your anxiety
and stress go into overdrive. And finally, you'll learn how to make
healthy and workable lifestyle changes to improve your mental
health and increase resilience, so you can effectively deal with
stressful situations in the future-no matter what life throws at
you. Between pandemic-related economic fears, the frustrations of
social distancing, indoor confinement, work and household double
duties (now including homeschooling!), and the looming threat of
serious illness, is it any wonder you're feeling completely
stressed out and anxious? If you need immediate relief, The Anxiety
First Aid Kit has everything you need to manage stress and
anxiety-right now.
You've heard the expression, "It's the" little" things that
count." It's more than a simple platitude. Research has shown that
integrating little daily practices into your life can actually
change the way your brain works.
This guide offers simple things you can do routinely, mainly
inside your mind, that will support and increase your sense of
security and worth, resilience, effectiveness, well-being, insight,
and inner peace. For example, they include: taking in the good,
protecting your brain, feeling safer, relaxing anxiety about
imperfection, not knowing, enjoying your hands, taking refuge, and
filling the hole in your heart. At first glance, you may be tempted
to underestimate the power of these seemingly simple practices. But
they will gradually change your brain through what's called
experience-dependent neuroplasticity.
Moment to moment, whatever you're aware of--sounds, sensations,
thoughts, or your most heartfelt longings--is based on underlying
neural activities. This book offers simple brain training practices
you can do every day to protect against stress, lift your mood, and
find greater emotional resilience.
Just one practice each day can help you to: Be good to yourself
Enjoy life as it is Build on your strengths Be more effective at
home and work Make peace with your emotions
With over fifty daily practices you can use anytime, anywhere,
"Just One Thing"is a groundbreaking combination of mindfulness
meditation and neuroscience that can help you deepen your sense of
well-being and unconditional happiness.
Your key to lasting happiness, self-love and inner peace 'A master
of his craft' - Prof Mark Williams, bestselling author of
Mindfulness: a practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world
Rick Hanson, author of the New York Times bestselling Hardwiring
Happiness, is known for his trademark blend of neuroscience,
positive psychology and contemplative practices. In Resilient, he
explains how to build the very foundations of well-being by
harnessing the power of positive experiences to build an
unshakeable core. Dr. Hanson poses that anyone can build up
resilience, the key to a positive mindset, unshakeable sense of
self and the ability to get back up again and withstand anything
life throws your way. He has distilled 40 years of clinical work
and teaching into 12 practical, highly effective tools to help you
build your resilience. Working with these tools allows you to enter
a positive feedback cycle, which creates a sense of well-being,
which in turn establishes resilience, and ultimately powers itself
to strengthen you. Developed from his incredibly popular online
course called The Foundations of Well-Being, here is the groundwork
you need to meet any challenge in life head on and to live with an
open heart.
'A book to savour, to practise, and take to heart' Professor Mark
Williams 'As clear and inspired as it gets' Ruby Wax Four steps to
counterbalance your brain's negativity bias and learn to hardwire
happiness in only a few minutes each day. Recent scientific
breakthroughs have revealed that what we think and feel changes the
brain. Dr Rick Hanson's Hardwiring Happiness is the first book to
show how to transform the simple positive experiences of daily life
into neural structures that promote lasting health, contentment,
love and inner peace. To keep our ancestors alive, our brain
evolved a 'negativity bias', which lets positive experiences flow
through it like water through a sieve. Yet positive experiences are
the building blocks needed for health, happiness and fulfilling
relationships. Drawing on neuroscience and the contemplative
traditions, Hardwiring Happiness shows how to overcome that
negativity bias and get those good experiences into the brain where
it can use them, providing the tools we need to heal old wounds,
develop our inner resources and, ultimately, transform our lives.
'Accessible and gentle, there is deep wisdom here from which all
may benefit' Professor Mark Williams, bestselling author of
Mindfulness 'Astonishing' Ruby Wax Explore the new neuroscience of
awakening and develop lasting inner peace in a changing world In
Neurodharma, leading psychologist Rick Hanson explores the heights
of human potential - and how to become as wise and strong, happy
and loving, as any person can ever be. Combining new science and
ancient wisdom, he shows how to develop unshakeable presence of
mind, deep contentment, liberating insight and a courageous heart.
With practical suggestions, guided meditations and warm
encouragement, he offers an inspiring vision of who we can be - and
an effective path for embodying this wonderful possibility. 'A
brilliant and unprecedented offering' Deepak Chopra 'Rick Hanson
has a rare ability to inspire us to our fullest potential while
giving us practical, actionable tools for our everyday lives' Marie
Forleo, author of Everything is Figureoutable
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