Rick Hanson on Growing Positive Qualities

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Rick Hanson, PhD is a Neuropsychologist, teacher and author of many books. He is the founder of the Wellspring Center for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom and an affiliate of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkley. This is the 2nd time Dr. Hanson has been a guest on the show and we invited him back because of how great his work really is. In this episode, he talks all about the fact that who we become is a result of what we grow inside of ourselves. Using the analogy of tending a garden, he teaches us very practical ways to grow and enrich ourselves through the experiences in our lives. Get a pen and paper - you'll probably want to take notes on this one!

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In This Interview, Rick Hanson and I Discuss...

The Wolf Parable
His book, Resilient: How to grow an unshakable core of calm, strength, and happiness
Who we become is a result of what we grow inside ourselves
How you manage your challenges, protect your vulnerabilities, Increase your resources: out in the world, in the body, and in the mind
Growing resources in our mind is a good focus
Converting an experience into lasting change
Slowing down content delivery so that the nervous system in our brains has a chance to receive it and rewire accordingly
5 ways to enrich a beneficial experience:
Extend the experience (make it longer)
Intensify the experience (really lean into it)
Embody the experience (how does it feel in your body and your mind)
Freshen the experience (see what's novel about it? Bring a beginners mind)
Value the experience (see the relevance to you)
Asking what is the challenge? What resource would be the most beneficial?
The mind is like a garden - to grow things, focus on:
Mindful witnessing
Mindful releasing of what's negative
Mindful receiving (replace what we release or simply receive what would be beneficial)
Fighting what's negative only makes it work
Growing a fundamental core of resilient wellbeing
Safety, Satisfaction, and Connection are basic needs we have
How it takes time to tend a garden
How adversity isn't the only way to grow in life
We have to experience what we want to grow inside
We have to turn that experience into some kind of lasting change in the brain

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by new members, Liza Veronica, Leslie, Melissa, Lisa, Travis, and Lenea.
0:07.0	If you'd like to support the show, and access great members-only benefits, go to 1UFeed.net-slash-join.
0:15.0	Don't give yourself the benefit of the doubt that you must be better and you must have higher motives.
0:20.0	Just bite the bullet and assume you're probably pretty much like most other people.
0:31.0	Welcome to the 1UFeed.
0:34.0	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,
0:38.0	quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:44.0	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:48.0	We tend to add negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:53.0	We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:56.0	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:59.0	But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter.
1:03.0	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
1:07.0	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction.
1:12.0	How they feed their good wolf.
1:15.0	Thanks for joining us.
1:21.0	Our guest on this episode is Robin Hansen,
1:25.0	an associate professor of economics at George Mason University,
1:29.0	and research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University.
1:33.0	His book is The Elephant in the Brain,
1:37.0	Hidden Motives in the World.
1:41.0	His book is The Elephant in the Brain, Hidden Motives in Everyday Life.
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