Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Connecting with Your Best Parts

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Jun 27, 2022

Dr. Rick and Forrest explore how to connect with our positive aspects, overcoming fears of conceit and tribalism. They discuss societal influences on self-perception, intimacy, courage, and cherishing ourselves and others. Embracing self-acceptance and recognizing inner goodness are key themes, along with self-reflection for improvement and exploring human nature views.

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INSIGHT

Good News About Ourselves

Most of what people need to recognize about themselves is positive.
Focus on self-awareness to uncover these strengths.

ANECDOTE

Internalized Stories

Forrest Hanson internalized the story of being cognitive, not a feeler.
This limited him from embracing his sensitive, emotional side.

ANECDOTE

Nine-Year-Old Self

Rick Hanson reflects on his nine-year-old self and reclaims positive traits.
Reconnecting with his younger self's determination and kindness moved him.

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A little while ago, we had an episode on self-awareness where Rick emphasized how the majority of what people have to become self-aware of is the good inside themselves. The point felt significant enough to expand into a full episode about how to connect with our best parts.

On this episode of Being Well, Dr. Rick and Forrest Hanson focus on how to accept, appreciate, and connect with our positive aspects, and how to deal with some of the developmental blocks that prevent us from embracing the good in ourselves. We look at how the culture we’re in affects our perspective, how to manage fears of conceit, and how to experience more intimacy and courage by releasing cynicism.

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Key Topics:

0:00: Introduction

3:20: What gets in the way of us hearing the good news about ourselves?

5:40: Stories we’re told about ourselves that form our identity
10:45: Reconnecting with childhood positive qualities

17:10: Intentions, talents, efforts

23:25: Avoiding conceit and the fear of sounding conceited

30:40: Releasing ideas that human nature is fundamentally bad

34:25: Tribalism

36:35: Seeing the cultural water we swim in

41:15: Intimacy, cynicism, courage

46:40: Cherishing ourselves and others

47:35: Recap

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