“Strength is often quiet, receptive determination rather than chest-thumping pushiness.” — Rick Hanson Neuroscience Copy Share Image
“inescapable physical or mental discomfort is the “first dart” of existence.” — Rick Hanson Discomfort Copy Share Image
“Your brain is like Velcro for negative experiences but Teflon for positive ones.” — Rick Hanson Negative experiences Copy Share Image
“But it is directly apparent that awareness can do its job without a subject.” — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
“Negative experiences create vicious cycles by making you pessimistic, overreactive, and inclined to go negative yourself. Avoiding” — Rick Hanson Emotion Copy Share Image
“Nurturing your own development isn’t selfish. It’s actually a great gift to other people. The” — Rick Hanson Nurturing Copy Share Image
“Therefore, you can use your mind to change your brain to benefit your mind—and everyone else” — Rick Hanson Psychology Copy Share Image
“Experiences are thus incapable of being completely satisfying. They are an unreliable basis for true happiness. To” — Rick Hanson Happiness Copy Share Image
“Three Poisons: greed makes me rigid about how I want things to be, hatred gets me all bothered and angry, and delusion… — Rick Hanson Greed Copy Share Image
“The self has no inherent, unconditional, absolute existence apart from the network of causes it arises from, in, and as.” — Rick Hanson Existence Copy Share Image
“Say only what is well-intended, true, beneficial, timely, expressed without harshness or malice, and—ideally—what is wanted.” — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
“unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence, and unconscious competence.” — Rick Hanson Consciousness Copy Share Image
“The tragedy and opportunity of this moment in history are exactly the same: the natural and technical resources needed to pull us… — Rick Hanson History Copy Share Image
“I once heard a Native American teaching story in which an elder, a grandmother, was asked what she had done to become… — Rick Hanson Education Copy Share Image
“Just before bed, your mind is very receptive, so no matter what went wrong that day, find something that went right, open… — Rick Hanson Psychology Copy Share Image
When I look back on mistakes I've made - like dumping my anger on someone, making assumptions in haste, partying too much,… — Rick Hanson Failure Copy Share Image
“Letting go of ill will does not mean passivity, silence, or allowing yourself or others to be harmed. [...] There is plenty… — Rick Hanson Neuroscience Copy Share Image
“Being able to self-activate positive experiences—to call up inner strengths at will—is fundamental to coping, well-being, and everyday effectiveness. With practice, these… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
“Saddest of all, some second-dart reactions are to conditions that are actually positive. If someone pays you a compliment, that’s a positive… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
“[I]f you can be with the pleasant without chasing after it, with the unpleasant without resisting it, and with the neutral without… — Rick Hanson Freedom Copy Share Image
“As you read this, in the five cups of tofu-like tissue inside your head, nested amid a trillion support cells, 80 to… — Rick Hanson Brain Copy Share Image
“focus on speaking your truth rather than changing other people; stay in touch with your experience, especially the deeper layers; establish the… — Rick Hanson Big picture Copy Share Image
“bring to mind the feeling of being with someone who loves you, while calling up heartfelt emotions such as gratitude or fondness.… — Rick Hanson Empathy Copy Share Image
“It’s a bad combination for the amygdala to be oversensitized while the hippocampus is compromised: painful experiences can then be recorded in… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
“the brain evolved a built-in negativity bias. While this bias emerged in harsh settings very different from our own, it continues to… — Rick Hanson Bias Copy Share Image
“Brain Life began around 3.5 billion years ago. Multicelled creatures first appeared about 650 million years ago. (When you get a cold,… — Rick Hanson Evolution Copy Share Image
“The autobiographical self (D’Amasio 2000) incorporates the reflective self and some of the emotional self, and it provides the sense of “I”… — Rick Hanson Identity Copy Share Image
“Imagine a day in which you feel generally fine. After waking up, you spend a few minutes in bed lightly thinking ahead… — Rick Hanson Art work Copy Share Image
“The many aspects of self are based on structures and processes spread throughout the brain and nervous system, and embedded in the… — Rick Hanson Brain Copy Share Image
“Stress reduces serotonin, probably the most important neurotransmitter for maintaining a good mood.” — Rick Hanson Stress Copy Share Image
“staying with a negative experience past the point that’s useful is like running laps in Hell: You dig the track a little… — Rick Hanson Positive Copy Share Image
“All joy in this world comes from wanting others to be happy, and all suffering in this world comes from wanting only… — Rick Hanson Happiness Copy Share Image
“Thoughts are just thoughts, sounds are just sounds, situations are just situations, and people are just being themselves.” — Rick Hanson Philosophy of Mind Copy Share Image
“Only we humans worry about the future, regret the past, and blame ourselves for the present.” — Rick Hanson Fear Copy Share Image
“The apparent wall between your body and the world is more like a picket fence. And between your mind and the world,… — Rick Hanson Meditation Copy Share Image
“Whatever positive facts you find, bring a mindful awareness to them—open up to them and let them affect you. It’s like sitting… — Rick Hanson Awareness Copy Share Image
“that suffering is the result of craving expressed through the Three Poisons: greed, hatred, and delusion.” — Rick Hanson Desire Copy Share Image
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