These days it’s hard to count on the world outside. So it’s vital to grow strengths inside like grit, gratitude, and compassion—the key to resilience, and to lasting well-being in a changing world.True resilience is much more than enduring terrible conditions. We need resilience every day to raise a family, work at a job, cope with stress, deal with health problems, navigate issues with others, heal from old pain, and simply keep on going.With his trademark...

With New York Times bestselling author, Dr. Hanson's four steps, you can counterbalance your brain's negativity bias and learn to hardwire happiness in only a few minutes each day.Why is it easier to ruminate over hurt feelings than it is to bask in the warmth of being appreciated? Because your brain evolved to learn quickly from bad experiences and slowly from good ones, but you can change this.Life isn’t easy, and having a brain wired to take in ...

Change your brain, change your life with this essential classic from New York Times bestselling author, Rick Hanson—now celebrating 15 years in print with more than 500,000 copies sold!Great teachers like the Buddha, Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, and Gandhi were all born with brains built essentially like anyone else’s—and then they changed their brains in ways that changed the world. Neuroscience now reveals how the flow of thoughts actually sculpt the brain, a...

“50 simple, powerful ways to improve your relationships at home and at work” (Lori Gottlieb, author of Maybe You Should Talk To Someone), based on the latest findings in neuroscience, mindfulness, and positive psychology—by the New York Times bestselling author of Neurodharma and ResilientRelationships are usually the most important part of a person’s life. But they’re often stressful and frustrating, or simply awkward, distant, ...

You’ve heard the expression, “It’s the little things that count.” Research has shown that little daily practices can change the way your brain works, too. This book offers simple brain-training practices you can do every day to protect against stress, lift your mood, and find greater emotional resilience. Just One Thing is a treasure chest of over fifty practices created specifically to deepen your sense of well-being and unconditional happiness.Just one practice each day ...

“Ideal for these unsettling times; highly recommended for general readers."—Library Journal (starred review)A quick-relief guide for calming anxiety and stress right now.If you’re feeling unprecedented levels of stress and anxiety right now, please know that you aren’t alone. In these extreme and uncertain times, it’s natural to be in a constant state of mental and physical strain. Whether you’re dealing with job loss, a sic...

LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • “An easy-to-follow road map for creating day-to-day inner peace in today’s increasingly complex world.”—Lori Gottlieb, MFT, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to SomeoneThroughout history, people have sought the heights of human potential—to become as wise and strong, happy and loving, as any person can ever be. And now recent science is revealing how these remarkable ways of being ar...

A guide to connecting with your deepest ground―a rootedness that supports authentic psychological healing and embodied spirituality"This beautiful and deeply insightful work invites us to reconnect with our true ground—a place of inner stability and peace that lies beyond fear." — Tara Brach, author of Radical AcceptanceIn John J. Prendergast's decades of experience as a psychotherapist and spiritual teacher, the are...

Your body has a natural sense of truth. We can feel authenticity in ourselves and in others. However, this innate wisdom is obscured by our conditioning—the core limiting beliefs, reactive feelings, and somatic contractions that fuel our sense of struggle and veil who we really are.In Touch is a groundbreaking, experiential guide to the felt-sense of our "inner knowing"—the deep intelligence available through our bodies. Each chapter presents moving stories, helpfu...

Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence shows you how to tap the hidden power of everyday experiences to change your brain and your life for the better.This bias evolved to help ancient animals survive, but today it makes us feel needlessly frazzled, worried, irritated, lonely, inadequate, and blue. Instead, in just a few seconds at a time in the flow of daily life, you can turn your experiences - the pleasure in a cup of coffee, th...

A science-backed approach to shift your most precious resource—your energy—to stop feeling depleted and reconnect with your inherent genius.Many of us misdirect our energy—doing too much and feeling like it is not enough. Clinical psychologist Dr. Diana Hill offers a method to reclaim your energy and revitalize your relationships, health, work, and community.Instead of more productivity tips, Dr. Hill invites us to use Wise Effort to connect with our “geniu...

Rick Hanson's lecture and meditation bundle on acceptance, presented by Betterlisten, delve deeply into the concept of acceptance as a transformative practice in personal growth and emotional well-being. Hanson explores acceptance in three key domains: our experiences, ourselves, and the world. He distinguishes between the inherent difficulties or unpleasantness in life and our aversion to them. The core message is that while it's natural to dislike or wish for change in certain situations...