The Highest Happiness

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

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

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🗓️ 27 April 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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What is the "highest happiness," and what can we do to achieve it? This is the second conversation with Dr. Hanson related to his new book Neurodharma: New Science, Ancient Wisdom, and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness. Today we're focusing on the final four practices in the book: wholeness, nowness, allness, and timelessness. Neurodharma is now available! Click here if you'd like to learn more. New Sponsor: Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Key Topics: 2:00: Why aim for “the heights of human potential” when the here and now already seems so challenging? 7:30: Wholeness, Nowness, Allness, and Timelessness. 11:00: What is an aspect of awakening? 14:20: The front edge of now. 17:00: The value of timelessness for a “normal person.” 23:00: The elements of consciousness. 26:45: The inherent emptiness of things. 32:50: Avoiding the pitfalls of emptiness. 34:30: The apparent self. 38:00: Our relationship to changing the self. Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. 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. 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	Hey everyone, welcome to being well. I'm Forrest Hansen. I'm joined today as usual by Dr. Rick Hansen. So Dad, how are you doing?
0:10.6	I'm really happy to be talking about this with you. I'm glad. Yeah, I'm
0:14.0	looking forward to it as well and I'd actually like to start the episode by
0:18.0	just quickly saying that I hope that if you're listening you're doing well out
0:21.2	there, the world's in a pretty crazy place right now and we
0:24.5	certainly hope to keep on producing content that maybe in some small way can
0:30.1	help people with what they're going through right now.
0:33.2	Yeah.
0:33.8	So with that in mind, kind of, today
0:35.8	we're going to be continuing our conversation
0:37.8	related to Rick's new book, Neurodarma.
0:41.1	Particularly, I wanted to wander more toward the deep end of the pool.
0:45.0	In self-help kind of broadly defined there are a couple of big categories of things that people tend to talk about.
0:51.0	One of them is just kind of being happier today.
0:55.0	Another one is improving key skills that lead to more happiness today.
1:00.0	And then another big category is things like being successful inside of our relationships,
1:07.0	dealing with any concerns that we have around the way that our health looks and feels to us, and so on. But most of these, I think it's fair to say,
1:16.5	lean more toward the present and they lean more toward what might be called the
1:22.4	fundamental, the kind of underlying in this moment
1:26.0	basis of experience that most people have of their health and happiness.
1:31.5	So I'm oversimplifying a little bit, but I think that most of the content does go into one of those big boxes.
1:37.0	And today I actually want to explore the four practices the most that lie toward the end of the
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