Rick Hanson

Experience lasting happiness, love and peace As the author of the New York Times bestselling Hardwiring Happiness, Rick Hanson is known for his trademark blend of neuroscience, positive psychology and contemplative practices.

These days it's hard to count on the world outside. So it's vital to grow strengths inside like grit, gratitude, and compassion--the key to resilience, and to lasting well-being in a changing world. True resilience is much more than enduring terrible conditions. We need resilience every day to raise a family, work at a job, cope with stress, deal with health problems, navigate issues with others, heal from old pain, and simply keep on going. With his trademark blend of neuroscience, mindfulness, and positive psychology, New York Times bestselling author Dr. Rick Hanson shows you how to develop twelve vital inner strengths hardwired into your own nervous system. Then no matter what life throws at you, you'll be able to feel less stressed, pursue opportunities with confidence, and stay calm and centered in the face of adversity. This practical guide is full of concrete suggestions, experiential practices, personal examples, and insights into the brain. It includes effective ways to interact with others and to repair and deepen important relationships. Warm, encouraging, and down-to-earth, Dr. Hanson's step-by-step approach is grounded in the science of positive neuroplasticity. He explains how to overcome the brain's negativity bias, release painful thoughts and feelings, and replace them with self-compassion, self-worth, joy, and inner peace.

Joka päivä elämme ulkoisten voimien määräiltävänä. Niitä on kaikkialla markkinataloudesta ihmisiin, joiden kanssa elämme ja työskentelemme. Eikä siinä kaikki. Myös omat reaktiomme ulkoisiin voimiin määräilevät meitä. Ne juontavat juurensa sisällä omissa aivoissamme piilevistä muinaisista lisko/nisäkäs/apina/luolamies-virtapiireistä. Modernin neurotieteen voimalla kykenemme viimein astumaan remmiin aivoissamme ja systemaattisesti muuttamaan niitä paremmiksi.Käsillä oleva kirja esittelee käytännönläheiset keinot, joilla voimme kehittää "buddhan aivot" - ne ovat mielenrauhan kannalta hyödylliset stressaavina aikoina, ne tuovat sisäistä voimaa ja itseluottamusta sekä horjumattoman tunteen tyytyväisyydestä ja sisäisestä arvokkuudesta.Buddhan aivojen kehittämistä ei suljeta buddhalaisiin piireihin, vaan se sopii kelle tahansa, mielsipä ihminen itsensä kristityksi, juutalaiseksi, ateistiksi tai miksi tahansa. Kirjassa esitellään 52 erilaista harjoitetta. Kukin harjoitus perustuu moderniin neurotieteeseen, positiiviseen psykologiaan kuten myös Rickin omaan elämänkokemukseen liikkeenhoidon ja perheen kasvattamisen ongelmia kohdatessaan.

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.

'A book to savour, to practise, and take to heart' Professor Mark Williams'As clear and inspired as it gets' Ruby WaxFour steps to counterbalance your brain's negativity bias and learn to hardwire happiness in only a few minutes each day.

The Neuroscience of Fulfilling Relationships—A Guided Training Program Most of our greatest joys and sorrows happen in our relationships with others. Imagine then: what if you could guide your mind to forgive, heal, and find greater happiness in your connections with others? "The remarkable truth is that you can," teaches Rick Hanson. With The Neurodharma of Love, this well-respected clinician and teacher shows us how brain science, practical psychology, and Buddhist meditation practices are now converging to help us experience greater intimacy and fulfillment—in our intimate relationships, with family and friends, and in our larger circles of work and community. This practice-centered audio program invites us to learn: How to strengthen our underlying neural circuits of empathy, compassion, kindness, and love at the deepest levels • Meditations to help us heal childhood wounds and shift out of fight-or-flight reactivity • How to create a healthy balance of intimacy and independence, open our hearts, resolve conflicts with others, and lay the neuropsychological foundation for lasting love "Compassion," "love," "openheartedness"—these aren’t just nice ideas. They’re actual brain states that we can nurture and strengthen. The Neurodharma of Love shows us how, with powerful insights and practices to enrich all of our relationships. Course objectives: Discuss how to strengthen our underlying neural circuits of empathy, compassion, kindness, and love at the deepest levels • Practice meditations to help us heal childhood wounds and shift out of fight-or-flight reactivity • Explain how to create a healthy balance of intimacy and independence, open our hearts, resolve conflicts with others, and lay the neuropsychological foundation for lasting love

Presents more than fifty simple practices readers can do each day to wire the brain for increased happiness, positive thinking, and wisdom. Written by Rick Hanson, author of Buddha's Brain, this pocket-sized book helps readers reap the benefits of meditation through simple five to ten-minute practices they can access anytime, anywhere.Building on the success of Buddha's Brain, each practice is grounded in neuroscience and positive psychology. The book offers information on why the practice is important and how it works, guidance for performing the practice, and additional resources readers can use to delve deeper into that particular type of practice. Some of the practices encourage readers to focus on gratitude for what they have, while others offer guidance for taking refuge and slowing down in stressful times. All of the practices are designed to gradually change the way readers process their emotions and create new neural pathways for greater happiness and fulfillment.

The author discusses the nature of happiness, its role in our evolution and the brain science behind happiness and suffering, and then goes on to lead the listener through 14 meditations and exercises designed to rewire that brain's neural pathways and open the door to more happiness. Read by the author. By the author of Just One Thing.