Rick Hanson Quotes

in your brain, loving-kindness mobilizes prefrontal language and intention networks as well as limbic emotion and reward networks.

When you like, bring the meditation to an end. Notice how you feel, and take in the good of your meditation.

Knowing without feeling is like a menu without a meal.

When you change your brain, you change your life.

you can decide to get eggs from the refrigerator without craving them — and without getting upset if there are none left.

Connection. Notice when you feel hurt, resentment, envy, loneliness, or inadequacy. Then recall times when you felt cared about — and times when you felt friendly or caring yourself. Rest in love flowing in and flowing out.

Intensify it. Open to it and let it be big in your mind.

We need safety,

Virtue, mindfulness, and wisdom are the pillars of everyday well-being, personal growth, and spiritual practice; they draw on the three fundamental neural functions of regulation, learning, and

A person is a human body-mind as a whole, an autonomous and dynamic system that arises in dependence upon human culture and the natural world (Mackenzie 2009).

Refuse to worry more than three times about something you can’t change; three strikes and the worry is out.