Dr. Rick Hanson

So I have a business background and a practical background. I've been really struck by how people are really pretty clear about making things better over time in the outer world. but they kind of feel helpless or even uninterested in the process of making things better over time in the inner world. That's what you're talking about.

So I have a business background and a practical background. I've been really struck by how people are really pretty clear about making things better over time in the outer world. but they kind of feel helpless or even uninterested in the process of making things better over time in the inner world. That's what you're talking about.

And your whole work, I think a lot of it is helping people realize they do have that power inside themselves and they can use that power in skillful ways. That's exactly right. And it's a plain fact that the essence of it is a two-step process that's incredibly simple. It's under our control most of the time, and people usually forget the second step.

And your whole work, I think a lot of it is helping people realize they do have that power inside themselves and they can use that power in skillful ways. That's exactly right. And it's a plain fact that the essence of it is a two-step process that's incredibly simple. It's under our control most of the time, and people usually forget the second step.

And your whole work, I think a lot of it is helping people realize they do have that power inside themselves and they can use that power in skillful ways. That's exactly right. And it's a plain fact that the essence of it is a two-step process that's incredibly simple. It's under our control most of the time, and people usually forget the second step.

First, you have to experience whatever you want to grow. You want to feel better about yourself? You want to feel more committed to exercise? you want to be less self-critical, you want to be more confident in public speaking, whatever it might be, you first have to experience what you want to grow or factors of it. Okay, that's a state.

First, you have to experience whatever you want to grow. You want to feel better about yourself? You want to feel more committed to exercise? you want to be less self-critical, you want to be more confident in public speaking, whatever it might be, you first have to experience what you want to grow or factors of it. Okay, that's a state.

First, you have to experience whatever you want to grow. You want to feel better about yourself? You want to feel more committed to exercise? you want to be less self-critical, you want to be more confident in public speaking, whatever it might be, you first have to experience what you want to grow or factors of it. Okay, that's a state.

But the second step is there must be an internalization of that momentary patterning of neurological activation that leaves a lasting trace in the body, especially in the brain. That's the second step. But if people actually engage that second step a handful of times every day, for typically a breath or two, maybe longer, then they are steepening their growth curve. And

But the second step is there must be an internalization of that momentary patterning of neurological activation that leaves a lasting trace in the body, especially in the brain. That's the second step. But if people actually engage that second step a handful of times every day, for typically a breath or two, maybe longer, then they are steepening their growth curve. And

But the second step is there must be an internalization of that momentary patterning of neurological activation that leaves a lasting trace in the body, especially in the brain. That's the second step. But if people actually engage that second step a handful of times every day, for typically a breath or two, maybe longer, then they are steepening their growth curve. And

influencing in lasting ways who they're becoming. The dirty secret in the clinical world is that we routinely leave out that second step. We kind of hope that something will stick to the walls. Even in Barbara Fredrickson's, for example, wonderful work on broadening and build, the build aspect of emotionally positive experiences is described as incidental. Me, I don't like that.

influencing in lasting ways who they're becoming. The dirty secret in the clinical world is that we routinely leave out that second step. We kind of hope that something will stick to the walls. Even in Barbara Fredrickson's, for example, wonderful work on broadening and build, the build aspect of emotionally positive experiences is described as incidental. Me, I don't like that.

influencing in lasting ways who they're becoming. The dirty secret in the clinical world is that we routinely leave out that second step. We kind of hope that something will stick to the walls. Even in Barbara Fredrickson's, for example, wonderful work on broadening and build, the build aspect of emotionally positive experiences is described as incidental. Me, I don't like that.

I want deliberate. You know what I mean? I want deliberate. You're going to leave this up to chance. Yeah, that's exactly right. And this is no knock on Barbara. I'm really speaking actually about my own errors as a therapist over time to be good at promoting certain experiences in people, but ignoring the question of whether they're sinking in in any kind of a lasting way.

I want deliberate. You know what I mean? I want deliberate. You're going to leave this up to chance. Yeah, that's exactly right. And this is no knock on Barbara. I'm really speaking actually about my own errors as a therapist over time to be good at promoting certain experiences in people, but ignoring the question of whether they're sinking in in any kind of a lasting way.

I want deliberate. You know what I mean? I want deliberate. You're going to leave this up to chance. Yeah, that's exactly right. And this is no knock on Barbara. I'm really speaking actually about my own errors as a therapist over time to be good at promoting certain experiences in people, but ignoring the question of whether they're sinking in in any kind of a lasting way.

And so anyway, people can appreciate That it's a two-step process, state to trait, and you actually have the power to slow down and take in the good, as it were, of that experience. Keep the neurons firing together so they wire together. Feel it in your body. Track the reward value of the experience.

And so anyway, people can appreciate That it's a two-step process, state to trait, and you actually have the power to slow down and take in the good, as it were, of that experience. Keep the neurons firing together so they wire together. Feel it in your body. Track the reward value of the experience.

And so anyway, people can appreciate That it's a two-step process, state to trait, and you actually have the power to slow down and take in the good, as it were, of that experience. Keep the neurons firing together so they wire together. Feel it in your body. Track the reward value of the experience.