Dr. Rick Hanson

That's right. Super briefly, the HEAL acronym. So I did not invent any of these methods. Now, really good teachers and people often on their own who have a fairly steep learning curve. I would imagine that you've yourself been just doing this naturally along the way. Do these processes of internalization.

That's right. Super briefly, the HEAL acronym. So I did not invent any of these methods. Now, really good teachers and people often on their own who have a fairly steep learning curve. I would imagine that you've yourself been just doing this naturally along the way. Do these processes of internalization.

That's right. Super briefly, the HEAL acronym. So I did not invent any of these methods. Now, really good teachers and people often on their own who have a fairly steep learning curve. I would imagine that you've yourself been just doing this naturally along the way. Do these processes of internalization.

What I have done is to pull them together in a comprehensive framework and embed it in evolution and

What I have done is to pull them together in a comprehensive framework and embed it in evolution and

What I have done is to pull them together in a comprehensive framework and embed it in evolution and

then apply it which we'll get to in a second about the second big thing that people can do with this which is to identify particular strengths they want to grow inside not just kind of move through life harvesting you know here and there useful experiences which is great in its own right but going after things in particular so i'll get to that so heels stands for have and

then apply it which we'll get to in a second about the second big thing that people can do with this which is to identify particular strengths they want to grow inside not just kind of move through life harvesting you know here and there useful experiences which is great in its own right but going after things in particular so i'll get to that so heels stands for have and

then apply it which we'll get to in a second about the second big thing that people can do with this which is to identify particular strengths they want to grow inside not just kind of move through life harvesting you know here and there useful experiences which is great in its own right but going after things in particular so i'll get to that so heels stands for have and

That's the have the beneficial experience in the first place. Either you notice it's happening or you create it. And then the second necessary step, right? The one that I and others routinely forget of installation. I call it activation installation because I read too much science fiction installation and still do probably. The E stands for enriching.

That's the have the beneficial experience in the first place. Either you notice it's happening or you create it. And then the second necessary step, right? The one that I and others routinely forget of installation. I call it activation installation because I read too much science fiction installation and still do probably. The E stands for enriching.

That's the have the beneficial experience in the first place. Either you notice it's happening or you create it. And then the second necessary step, right? The one that I and others routinely forget of installation. I call it activation installation because I read too much science fiction installation and still do probably. The E stands for enriching.

You're helping the experience be big, powerful, lasting in your brain. And A for absorbing. You're sensitizing. the neurobiological machinery of memory. So the enriched experience is landing on a more sensitive system that can really internalize it. That's the basic process.

You're helping the experience be big, powerful, lasting in your brain. And A for absorbing. You're sensitizing. the neurobiological machinery of memory. So the enriched experience is landing on a more sensitive system that can really internalize it. That's the basic process.

You're helping the experience be big, powerful, lasting in your brain. And A for absorbing. You're sensitizing. the neurobiological machinery of memory. So the enriched experience is landing on a more sensitive system that can really internalize it. That's the basic process.

Then the fourth step is optional, but very powerful, is to link in the moment a beneficial experience with some negative material you're trying to soothe and ease and eventually even replace. Right. That's the overall structure. I think of it as like the brain and mind are like a garden. You can be with it, which is fundamental, but you can also work with it.

Then the fourth step is optional, but very powerful, is to link in the moment a beneficial experience with some negative material you're trying to soothe and ease and eventually even replace. Right. That's the overall structure. I think of it as like the brain and mind are like a garden. You can be with it, which is fundamental, but you can also work with it.

Then the fourth step is optional, but very powerful, is to link in the moment a beneficial experience with some negative material you're trying to soothe and ease and eventually even replace. Right. That's the overall structure. I think of it as like the brain and mind are like a garden. You can be with it, which is fundamental, but you can also work with it.

And working with it means pulling weeds and planting flowers. And my focus a lot is how do you plant the flowers, but you can use in the linking step, you can use flowers not just to gradually crowd out the weeds over time, but to actually uproot the weeds.

And working with it means pulling weeds and planting flowers. And my focus a lot is how do you plant the flowers, but you can use in the linking step, you can use flowers not just to gradually crowd out the weeds over time, but to actually uproot the weeds.