047: How to Live a Resilient Life with Rick Hanson
Feel Good Effect
Robyn Conley Downs
4.9 • 725 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2018
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
If want to live a more resilient life, to grow an unshakable core of calm, strength, and happiness, then this episode is for you. Using his trademark blend of neuroscience, mindfulness, and positive psychology, Dr. Rick Hanson--psychologist, Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and New York Times best-selling author--is unpacking true resilience, and sharing how you can begin to cultivate it through simple daily practices.
Resources
Register for Dr. Hanson’s course: The Foundations of Well-Being
Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness
Hardwiring Happiness, The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence
Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom
Just One Thing: Developing a Buddha Brain One Simple Practice at a Time
Guest Information
Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a psychologist, Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and New York Times best-selling author. His books are available in 26 languages and include Resilient, Hardwiring Happiness, Buddha’s Brain, Just One Thing, and Mother Nurture. He edits the Wise Brain Bulletin and has numerous audio programs. A summa cum laude graduate of UCLA and founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, he’s been an invited speaker at NASA, Oxford, Stanford, Harvard, and other major universities, and taught in meditation centers worldwide.
Website: rickhanson.net
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Feel Good Effect. We're talking all about resilience today. So if you want to live a more |
| 0:06.6 | resilient life to grow an unshakable core of calm, strength, and well-being, then this episode is for you. |
| 0:13.9 | Let's make it happen. Welcome to the Feel Good Effect, a podcast about what it really means to be healthy. |
| 0:22.5 | I'm your host, Robin Conley Downs. I'm a researcher, blogger, storyteller, and educator, |
| 0:29.2 | and I know firsthand just how hard creating a healthy lifestyle can be. |
| 0:34.0 | In this podcast, we'll talk to health and wellness thought leaders, innovators, and visionaries |
| 0:38.8 | to deconstruct healthy to help you feel good. |
| 0:45.6 | Hey, feel good at Beck community. I'm so glad you're here. We have the best episode today. I feel |
| 0:51.4 | like I say that every week and I think it's true every single week, |
| 0:54.3 | but this one is in a category all its own. We get the opportunity to talk with Dr. Rick Hansen, |
| 1:01.3 | who's a psychologist, a senior fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, |
| 1:06.1 | and a New York Times bestselling author. And here's the really cool thing about Dr. Hansen and the work he's doing. |
| 1:12.9 | He's blending cutting edge neuroscience with mindfulness and positive psychology. So these are all |
| 1:19.5 | different areas and ways of looking at health and looking at well-being and looking at human |
| 1:23.6 | behavior. And oftentimes they're very siloed. We don't get to really look at how they interact. |
| 1:28.2 | And I believe that the magic happens when you put these things together. It's been some of the |
| 1:32.8 | work we've been doing over here at feel good effect, real food whole life. But Dr. Hansen is like |
| 1:37.1 | taking it next level and really unpacking true resilience, which is a word that's thrown around, |
| 1:42.5 | but we're really going to talk about what it means, and then how you can begin to cultivate it through simple daily practices. |
| 1:48.2 | And if you can't tell, I am super fired up about this because I think this is where, or at least |
| 1:53.0 | I hope it's where the wellness field is going. This is really what the mindset directed wellness |
| 1:58.3 | revolution is all about. And since we're talking all about |
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