Relaxing Anxiety During Stressful Times

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

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

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

If you live in the United States – and probably for many people who don’t – it’s been a bit of a stressful week. Today Dr. Hanson and Forrest talk about relaxing anxiety, weathering the storm, and taking in the year as a whole. Support the Podcast: We're on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Key Topics: 1:30: Where do we want to allocate our attention? 5:00: Rational, appropriate stress and anxiety. 8:00: The cost of ‘negative’ emotions. 12:30: Practices of calming stress. 14:45: Giving yourself grace, and accepting some amount of stress. 17:40: Deal with the bad, turn toward the good, take in the good. 22:15: Seeing what is true. 26:45: Being happy when others are not. 36:40: A practice for calming and centering. 44:45: Learning from the hard parts of practice. If you'd like to learn more about Jaimal Yogis, here's his website. Overcome Anxiety: Let go of anxiety and grow a greater sense of calm strength with Rick's Dealing with Anxiety program, which offers 5 powerful practices for managing stress and worries. Save 10% with coupon code BEINGWELL. 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. Explore your creativity at Skillshare.com/BEINGWELL and get a free trial of their Premium Membership. Want to sleep better? Try the legendary Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription. Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Connect with the show: 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
0:05.0	welcome to being well. I'm Forrest Hanson.
0:08.0	If you're new to the podcast, this is where we explore the practical science of lasting well-being. And if you've listened before, welcome
0:14.6	back. I'm joined today as usual by Dr. Rick Hansen. Rick is a clinical
0:19.0	psychologist and a best-selling author who spent over 35 years teaching people the key lessons from
0:24.6	psychology and contemplative practice that lead to a good life. It's great to be here
0:29.5	as usual with my pops so Dad how are you doing today pretty good sons
0:36.1	sons I'm trying to figure out how to transition out of that now.
0:44.0	Victory!
0:45.0	Yay!
0:47.0	I rattled my son who's normally cool and calm like a cucumber.
0:52.0	Oh, geez.
0:54.0	All right, so anyway, what I was going to say is that if you live in the United States
0:59.0	and probably for many people who don't, it's been a bit of a stressful week. I certainly am in
1:05.6	cortisol overdrive. I'm sure many other people are. There's been a lot to take in.
1:10.4	Many people have been dealing with some pretty complex feelings of different kinds. And this feels like a pretty good opportunity to talk about relaxation and anxiety, what we can do to kind of weather the storm when things get tough and perhaps even framing and
1:25.2	taking in the year as a whole in a lot of different ways so how have things been for you
1:29.2	dad? It's been personally, actually revelatory in some ways, and maybe I'll share a few sort of personal takeaways,
1:39.4	you know, that have actually aided me in coming to a softer calmer landing.
1:45.8	And it's also been really striking
1:48.3	to appreciate the ways in which so much of what
1:51.5	we can be understandably morally invested in or really care about at the
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