Dealing with Life's Disruptions

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Today we’re focusing on a topic that’s been particularly important over the last year: how we can deal more effectively with life's major disruptions. This includes recovering from setbacks, finding the opportunities, and even getting the most out of disruptions that are positive. Life After COVID Summit: Join Dr. Rick Hanson, Forrest Hanson, and a roster of world-class experts during this FREE three-day online event to explore our life after COVID. Click here to learn more about the Summit and register now. Key Topics: 0:55: “One mistake after another.” 1:55: Life After COVID Summit. 5:30: The opportunities in major disruptions. 9:00: The impact of social environments on our self-identity. 11:10: The Theory of Positive Disintegration. 13:30: Framing disruption as a normal feature of life. 18:30: Examples of normal disruptions that occur in life. 21:45: The importance of social support. 23:30: Practices to limit the harm during a moment of disruption. 31:15: The necessity of eventually processing the emotion. 36:00: Taking the time you need. 39:15: Moving into action. 42:20: Integrating a disruption. 47:50: Orienting toward change. 52:00: Mindfulness of contraction and expansion. 54:20: Recap Sponsors: From Dr. Hanson: The Foundations of Well-Being brings together the lessons of a lifetime of practice into one year-long online program. Podcast listeners can use the code BEINGWELL25 at checkout for an additional 25% off! Please don't hesitate to apply for a scholarship if you're in need. Build healthy habits with Most Days! Download it in the App Store or go to MostDays.com/beingwell for more information. Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Want to sleep better? Try the legendary Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription. Start a new healthy habit with Seed! Visit seed.com/beingwell and use code BEINGWELL to get 20% off your first month of Seed’s Daily Synbiotic. Connect with the show: Follow Forrest on YouTube Follow us on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Being Well, I'm Forest Hanson.
0:11.2	If you're new to the podcast, this is where we explore the practical science of lasting
0:15.2	well-being.
0:16.2	And if you've listened before, welcome back.
0:18.2	I've really been looking forward to today's episode where we're going to be focusing
0:22.0	on a topic that's been of particular importance over the last year or so.
0:26.9	Now we can deal more effectively with major life disruptions of various kinds.
0:32.2	This includes what we can do to limit the negative impact of these events, find the opportunities
0:37.2	that might be present inside major moments of change, and even get the most out of disruptions
0:42.4	that are positive.
0:43.4	What can we do to really integrate those when something good actually happens to us in
0:47.9	this often challenging life?
0:49.8	So to help us do that, I'm joined today as usual by Dr. Rick Hanson, so dad, how are
0:54.6	you doing today?
0:55.6	I'm doing really well, and I'm somehow thinking of this famous, highly regarded, revered
1:02.1	Japanese Zen Master who, toward the end of his life, was asked what he made of it, looking
1:08.3	back.
1:09.3	And he shook his head with a bemused smile and said, one mistake after another.
1:19.4	That is a great framework for the conversation one mistake after another.
1:24.1	And then what do you do about it, right?
1:26.0	Like how do you cope with that one mistake after another?
1:29.1	So in a beautiful, wonderful life, and I've missed a beautiful, wonderful life, and what
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