Life's Essential Psychological Skills, Part 2

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

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

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🗓️ 8 November 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Today we're continuing our exploration of the key inner strengths and psychological skills we truly feel like we couldn’t live without. In the second of two episodes dedicated to this topic, Dr. Rick and Forrest Hanson talk about joy, seeing the mind's deceits, keeping your good humor, the wild spirit, and finding meaning. Watch the Episode: Prefer watching video? You can watch this episode on YouTube. From Dr. Hanson: The Foundations of Well-Being brings together the lessons of a lifetime of practice into one year-long online program. Our holiday sale is going on now, and podcast listeners can use the code BEINGWELL25 for another 25% off! Please don't hesitate to apply for a scholarship if you're in need. Key Topics: 0:00: Introduction 1:30: Cognitive restructuring: fighting your negative brain. 7:10: Not taking things so seriously. 9:40: The “stage play” of life. 12:40: Joy. 17:40: The wild spirit. 23:20: Breaking our patterns. 25:15: The “routinization of charisma.” 29:00: Finding meaning. 38:40: Recap Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Sponsors: From Boston Globe Media comes a new podcast, TURNING POINTS, a show about navigating mental health. Listen on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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 last and
0:15.2	well-being.
0:16.2	And if you've listened before, welcome back.
0:18.7	Today we have the second of two episodes dedicated to the ten things that we can't live without.
0:26.9	If you've spent some time just about anywhere on the internet, you've probably run into one
0:31.4	of these videos where somebody explores the five things they can't live without.
0:37.2	And most of the time these things are really things that it would be pretty easy to live
0:41.8	without, like Rolex or a latte-fomer or whatever else some celebrity is on at that particular
0:49.3	moment.
0:50.4	But there are truly some things that it would be really hard to live without in this life.
0:55.4	So in these episodes, we're taking this concept and we're applying it to ourselves.
1:00.5	The key psychological skills in our strengths are maybe even ideas or big concepts that
1:06.5	Rick and I each think that it would be very challenging for us to live without.
1:11.5	In the first episode, we talked about benevolence, patience, curiosity, self-regulation and grit.
1:19.1	And today we're going to be exploring five more.
1:22.2	So dad, what do you think about this?
1:24.2	I love that we're talking about this.
1:26.6	Okay, you, what's your number three?
1:30.8	Okay, number three for me, this has a very fancy name.
1:35.9	It's going to sound very psychological.
1:38.0	It's really basic.
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