
Practical Wisdom with Dr. Rick Hanson How to Feel Lived by Love
Sep 3, 2025
Feeling overwhelmed or disconnected? Explore the transformative power of being 'lived by love.' Learn practices to open yourself to compassion and support from the world around you. Discover how softening into love can shift your daily experiences and interactions. Embrace gratitude for life's sustaining forces, and let love flow freely through you. Understand that establishing boundaries doesn't contradict love; it can empower you. Ultimately, being carried by love isn't just beneficial—it's essential for personal and collective healing.
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Cradled By Life And Mind
- You are carried by life and mind moment to moment, even if your brain prioritizes danger.
- Softening into that carrying untangles fear and reduces craving that fuels suffering.
Soften Into An Ongoing All‑Rightness
- Soften and open in your heart and notice a basic ongoing all-rightness that can hold pain and sorrow.
- Use this felt all-rightness as a foundation to let love flow through you in daily moments.
Notice The Buoying Currents
- Open awareness to the buoying currents of nature, evolution, and the material world supporting you.
- Recognize the warmth and goodwill of others and the net of relationships that carry you.
