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2010-11-05T17:01:32-06:00

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UNDER THE SAME SKY

Last updated on: November 5, 2010 at 5:01 pm By Gary Gach

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2010-10-14T09:00:17-06:00

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You Can Feel Safer

Last updated on: October 14, 2010 at 9:00 am By Rick Hanson

Feeling safer is a tricky subject, with complications that can be both personal and political. Read more

2010-09-30T09:00:13-06:00

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21 Ways To Turn Ill Will to Good Will

Last updated on: September 30, 2010 at 9:00 am By Rick Hanson

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It’s important to get a handle on “ill will” – irritated, resentful, and angry feelings and intentions toward others. While it may seem justified in the moment, ill will harms you probably more than it harms others. In another metaphor, having ill will toward others is like throwing hot coals with bare hands: both people get burned. Read more

speaking truth to power

traditional metaphor

vicious cycles

2010-09-16T09:00:14-06:00

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How Did Humans Become Empathic?

Last updated on: September 16, 2010 at 9:00 am By Rick Hanson

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Empathy is unusual in the animal kingdom. So empathy must have had some major survival benefits for it to have evolved. Read more

computational requirements

early human ancestors

evolution of the brain

2010-09-02T09:00:55-06:00

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The Wolf of Hate

Last updated on: September 2, 2010 at 9:00 am By Rick Hanson

I heard a story once about a Native American elder who was asked how she had become so wise, so happy, and so respected. She answered: “In my heart, there are two wolves: a wolf of love and a wolf of hate. It all depends on which one I feed each day.” Read more

compassion and kindness

Your Wise Brain anger and aggression

2010-08-19T09:00:26-06:00

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The Evolution of Love

Last updated on: August 19, 2010 at 9:00 am By Rick Hanson

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How did we evolve the most loving brain on the planet? Humans are the most sociable species on earth – for better and for worse. Read more

psychological factors

2010-08-05T09:00:39-06:00

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Taking in the Good

Last updated on: August 5, 2010 at 9:00 am By Rick Hanson

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Scientists believe that your brain has a built-in “negativity bias.” In other words, as we evolved over millions of years, dodging sticks and chasing carrots, it was a lot more important to notice, react to, and remember sticks than it was for carrots. Read more

2010-07-22T09:00:59-06:00

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5000 Synapses in the Width of a Hair

Last updated on: July 22, 2010 at 9:00 am By Rick Hanson

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How much change in the brain makes a difference? Small changes in daily activities - meditating instead of sleeping in, driving a cab instead of working in an office - can make changes in the brain that seem small but actually create big changes in the mind. And that fact opens the door to amazing opportunities. **************** Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a neuropsychologist and founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom. A summa cum laude graduate of UCLA, he teaches at universities and meditation centers in Europe, Australia, and North America. His work has been featured on the BBC and in Consumer Reports Health, U.S. News and World Report, and other major magazines. Rick’s most recent book is Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom (with Rick Mendius, M.D.; Foreword by Dan Siegel, M.D. and Preface by Jack Kornfield, Ph.D.), which has been praised by numerous scholars, therapists, and teachers, including Tara Brach, Ph.D., Roger Walsh, Ph.D., Sharon Salzberg, and Fred Luskin, Ph.D., and is being published in nine additional languages. An authority on self-directed neuroplasticity, he edits the Wise Brain Bulletin, and his articles have appeared in Tricycle Magazine, Insight Journal, and Inquiring Mind; his Your Wise Brain blog is on Huffington Post, Psychology Today, and other major websites. He has a chapter – 7 Facts about the Brain That Incline the Mind to Joy – in Measuring the Immeasurable, as well as several audio programs with Sounds True. His first book was Mother Nurture: A Mother's Guide to Health in Body, Mind, and Intimate Relationships (Penguin, 2002) Rick is currently a trustee of Saybrook University. He also served on the board of Spirit Rock Meditation Center for nine years, and was President of the Board of FamilyWorks, a community agency. He began meditating in 1974, trained in several traditions, and leads a weekly meditation gathering in San Rafael, CA. He enjoys rock-climbing and taking a break from emails. He and his wife have two children. For more information, please see his full profile at www.RickHanson.net. You can find him on the social web at http://www.facebook.com/BuddhasBrain and http://www.YouTube.com/BuddhasBrain Read more

width of a human hair

2010-07-08T17:19:00-06:00

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The Brain in a Bucket

Last updated on: July 8, 2010 at 5:19 pm By Rick Hanson

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Have you ever seen a real brain? That blobby organ – just three pounds of tofu-like tissue – is considered by scientists to be the most complex object currently known in the universe. Read more

2010-06-21T08:00:25-06:00

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karma and the middle passage

Last updated on: June 21, 2010 at 8:00 am By Scott Mitchell

I was out of town for most of this past weekend for some personal, family related issues. (That's all you get, Internet! I don't hang out all my laundry, dirty or clean!) So I've been out of touch with my usual online sources blogs, Twitters, etc., etc. But one thing did catch my eye, and it's been rattling around my head for a couple of days now. Claudia, of the wonderful blog The Bottom of Heaven, twittered (tweeted?) the following: Can't quite wrap my head around the idea of Karma on a meta-level; was the Middle Passage "bad Karma"? Is this a question Buddhists ask? Read more

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