Hello and welcome to the Being Well Podcast, I'm Forrest Hanson. In our last episode we covered

enriching and absorbing how to make a experience really salient and then how to fully take it into you,

so it gets internalized as a lasting change in neural structure or function.

This week we're going to be applying that concept to key

resources experiences. This is finding and growing the key strengths that would really help you these days.

We touched on this topic a little bit during the

episode on meeting your needs and today we're really going to dive into that. So to guide us

through all of that I'm joined today as always by Dr Rick Hansen. So Dad how are you doing? I'm good glad to be here.

So what is a key resource experience? What do you mean by that phrase? Yeah I really mean

experiencing key resources and through experiencing them developing

them in a wonderful positive cycle because traits like mindfulness or

grit or gratitude are grown from states that are then internalized to grow the trade and then as you

develop the trade it tends to foster them as states.

So the basic idea of key resources is to look for what's matched to an issue.

Now the issue might be an external condition like caring for a young child or an aging parent or the external

condition might be needing to spend two hours a day commuting to and from a job

including maybe taking buses or other forms of public transportation.

The issue could be a physical condition.

Maybe it's a health problem.

Maybe you've got chronic pain.

Or the issue might be some longstanding tendencies or lingering wounds or issues going back into your childhood.

So now you've got a challenge. There's an issue. The question is what would be useful inside your own mind to deal with that issue?

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