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Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

How to Meet Your Needs for Connection: Attunement

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

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

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

During this time of increased isolation our needs for connection are harder to meet than ever. Today Rick and Forrest are exploring how we can use the psychological technique of "attunement" to connect better with others, and meet our own needs for connection as well.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Being Well, I'm Forest Hanson.

0:10.8

If you're new to the podcast, this is where we explore the practical science of lasting

0:15.1

well-being.

0:16.1

And if you've listened before, welcome back.

0:18.6

In our last conversation together, we talked about needs.

0:21.9

Everyone has them, but they're not always easy to admit or come to terms with or fulfill.

0:28.4

We explored common needs, what we can do to identify our unique needs, accepting our

0:33.2

needs, and even how we can help other people meet their needs, assuming that that's something

0:39.0

that we want to do.

0:40.4

Today, we're going to be focusing on one of those needs, in particular, our need for

0:44.6

connection.

0:45.9

During this time of increased isolation for many people in the United States and around

0:50.4

the world, our needs for connection are harder to meet than ever.

0:54.8

And to make things even more complicated, there are a lot of social forces and political

0:59.4

rifts that have divided people further that have been encouraged and raised large and small

1:04.2

by different powerful groups of people.

1:06.7

So today, I want to talk about meeting this need on the scale of the very local, our individual

1:11.6

interactions with other people.

1:14.2

To help us do that, I'm joined today as usual by Dr. Rick Hanson.

1:17.8

So dad, does this all sound good to you?

1:20.0

It sounds great to me, and I'm really excited about getting into the micro-atunements, those

1:26.8

little things that are the underlying music of interactions, which then build relationships,

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