Dr. Rick Hanson

So if you know about your own negative material, I really enjoyed listening to you use the metaphor in going through therapy of learning about all kinds of new rooms in the mansion of your being. When you start to know what's in those rooms, then you can start to identify what are the resources inside, the strengths inside that would be a good match for that wound or that lack.

that would help to fill that lack inside, that hole in your heart, maybe, or would soothe and ease and gradually mend that wound inside. So you identify a particular strength. So I'll give an example. Let's suppose that someone, either based on their history or just their temperament, is anxious about stuff.

that would help to fill that lack inside, that hole in your heart, maybe, or would soothe and ease and gradually mend that wound inside. So you identify a particular strength. So I'll give an example. Let's suppose that someone, either based on their history or just their temperament, is anxious about stuff.

that would help to fill that lack inside, that hole in your heart, maybe, or would soothe and ease and gradually mend that wound inside. So you identify a particular strength. So I'll give an example. Let's suppose that someone, either based on their history or just their temperament, is anxious about stuff.

let's say, anxious in work environments about sticking their neck out, speaking up, and even making presentations. Very common, okay? Or being, let's say, vulnerable, speaking from the heart with someone they care about, letting someone know, hey, you know, it's really scary when you're a kid to go to some house, knock on the door, will Johnny come play or Susie play? You know, do you like me?

let's say, anxious in work environments about sticking their neck out, speaking up, and even making presentations. Very common, okay? Or being, let's say, vulnerable, speaking from the heart with someone they care about, letting someone know, hey, you know, it's really scary when you're a kid to go to some house, knock on the door, will Johnny come play or Susie play? You know, do you like me?

let's say, anxious in work environments about sticking their neck out, speaking up, and even making presentations. Very common, okay? Or being, let's say, vulnerable, speaking from the heart with someone they care about, letting someone know, hey, you know, it's really scary when you're a kid to go to some house, knock on the door, will Johnny come play or Susie play? You know, do you like me?

It's really scary. Okay, so let's say there's an anxiety there. What's the psychological resource that would be matched to it? Well, one is being able to calm yourself, especially calm your body when you're nervous about something. That's good. Another is a sense that you're strong, that, yeah, you're anxious about something or it's threatening or challenging, but you're strong. You're determined.

It's really scary. Okay, so let's say there's an anxiety there. What's the psychological resource that would be matched to it? Well, one is being able to calm yourself, especially calm your body when you're nervous about something. That's good. Another is a sense that you're strong, that, yeah, you're anxious about something or it's threatening or challenging, but you're strong. You're determined.

It's really scary. Okay, so let's say there's an anxiety there. What's the psychological resource that would be matched to it? Well, one is being able to calm yourself, especially calm your body when you're nervous about something. That's good. Another is a sense that you're strong, that, yeah, you're anxious about something or it's threatening or challenging, but you're strong. You're determined.

You're capable. You've got moxie. You're going to get through it. You can deal with it. Either one of those so far. So in my extended example, sorry about this. Let's say you're going through life and you know that you have anxiety and you know that you value a sense of calming in your body or a sense of and or a sense of personal strength.

You're capable. You've got moxie. You're going to get through it. You can deal with it. Either one of those so far. So in my extended example, sorry about this. Let's say you're going through life and you know that you have anxiety and you know that you value a sense of calming in your body or a sense of and or a sense of personal strength.

You're capable. You've got moxie. You're going to get through it. You can deal with it. Either one of those so far. So in my extended example, sorry about this. Let's say you're going through life and you know that you have anxiety and you know that you value a sense of calming in your body or a sense of and or a sense of personal strength.

So then when you have that positive matched resource like calming or sense of strength, and you're feeling it in the present, you could deliberately bring it into contact with that anxiety. Maybe anxiety going back to your childhood, maybe more like your temperament, and be aware of both of them at the same time. Neurons that fire together wire together.

So then when you have that positive matched resource like calming or sense of strength, and you're feeling it in the present, you could deliberately bring it into contact with that anxiety. Maybe anxiety going back to your childhood, maybe more like your temperament, and be aware of both of them at the same time. Neurons that fire together wire together.

So then when you have that positive matched resource like calming or sense of strength, and you're feeling it in the present, you could deliberately bring it into contact with that anxiety. Maybe anxiety going back to your childhood, maybe more like your temperament, and be aware of both of them at the same time. Neurons that fire together wire together.

So if you keep the positive experience bigger in your mind while you're aware of that negative off to the side and a sense of the positive connecting with the negative going into it, both of them are present in your awareness at the same time where you're toggling back and forth pretty quickly. Linking is central to therapy, trauma work, passive healing in general.

So if you keep the positive experience bigger in your mind while you're aware of that negative off to the side and a sense of the positive connecting with the negative going into it, both of them are present in your awareness at the same time where you're toggling back and forth pretty quickly. Linking is central to therapy, trauma work, passive healing in general.

So if you keep the positive experience bigger in your mind while you're aware of that negative off to the side and a sense of the positive connecting with the negative going into it, both of them are present in your awareness at the same time where you're toggling back and forth pretty quickly. Linking is central to therapy, trauma work, passive healing in general.

I'm talking about how to do it on your own very specifically. If the negative material is so powerful like in trauma that it's going to hijack you, you're not ready to do linking with it. But if you can do it on your own and regulate yourself while you're doing it, this is top five, top three mental health method I know. terms of its far-reaching impact.