Finding Joy in the Face of Challenges

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

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

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Rick and Forrest Hanson are joined by James Baraz, a meditation teacher for over 40 years and cofounder of Spirit Rock Meditation Center, to explore how we can find still find joy during difficult times. We discuss how to balance a sense of equanimity with compassion for the suffering of the world, and how cultivating joy at an individual level can support healing at the collective level. About our Guest: James is the coauthor of Awakening Joy: 10 Steps to True Happiness, and leads the popular online course of the same name. He is also the guiding teacher of One Earth Sangha, a website devoted to expressing a Buddhist response to climate change. Watch the Episode: Prefer watching video? You can watch this episode on YouTube. Key Topics: 0:00: Introduction 1:45: Why joy is important in Buddhism 5:05: James’ journey to prioritizing joy 11:40: How to practice awakening joy without turning away from suffering 17:20: Putting yourself back together after cultivating awareness of suffering 24:10: The 10 Steps of Awakening Joy 28:45: How people can use emotionally positive states in contemplative practice 32:00: Positivity in relation to the climate crisis and other collective challenges 38:05: Equanimity, compassion, including both sides of the river 43:35: The great perfection 47:10: James’ realistic hope for the next 25 years 49:30: Recap Awakening Joy: Awakening Joy is an internationally recognized course designed to awaken joy through exciting themes and practices that incline the mind toward well-being and deeper insight. It's a 5-month course taught online by James, check it out and learn more here. Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Sponsors: Find the new CBD+ performance gummies and the whole dosist health line-up today at dosisthealth.com. Use promo code BEINGWELL20 for 20% off your purchase. 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. Connect with the show: Subscribe on iTunes Follow Forrest on YouTube Follow us on Instagram Follow Forrest on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Visit Forrest's website 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.
0:10.4	If you're new to the podcast, this is where we explore the practical science of lasting
0:14.7	well-being.
0:15.7	And if you've listened before, welcome back.
0:18.0	I'm joined today as usual by Dr. Rick Hanson, Rick as a clinical psychologist and a best-selling
0:23.4	author.
0:24.4	And I'm also happy to say that he's my dad, so dad, how are you doing today?
0:28.4	I'm super good and extremely psyched to talk with my friend and teacher, James Barras.
0:34.0	Yeah, we've been really looking forward to this one, so James, how are you doing today?
0:38.8	Feel great to be here with both of you.
0:41.3	Yeah, and we're so happy to have you here.
0:43.9	It's kind of overdue to do this with you.
0:46.2	You've been a long time friend of my dad's and a friend of mine as well.
0:50.0	And I'd like to start just by giving kind of a quick introduction for James.
0:53.0	He's been teaching meditation since 1978.
0:56.2	He's also a co-founding teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California.
1:02.3	He's the co-author as well of the wonderful book Awakening Joy, Ten Steps to Happiness,
1:07.4	which also has a version aimed at children, if you happen to be a parent.
1:11.6	And he leads the popular online course by the same name.
1:14.6	He's the guiding teacher for One Earth Sangha, a website devoted to expressing a Buddhist
1:19.6	response to climate change, which I know James is something that is profoundly important
1:23.9	to you and central to your work recently, which we'll be talking about during this episode
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