Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Ep. 7: Dealing with the Mind

Feb 20, 2018

30:38

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Learn how to skillfully 'deal with' your mind by being present with your experiences, letting go of negativity, and cultivating positive qualities like mindfulness and compassion. Discover the distinct functions of the right and left hemispheres of the brain in handling emotions and explore practical mindfulness techniques to release negative emotions and replace them with positive alternatives.

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Quick takeaways

Being deliberate and intentional in our relationship to our thoughts, feelings, sensations, and desires allows us to actively influence our own mind.

To deal with our mind effectively, we can practice letting be, letting go, and letting in, which involves accepting our experiences, releasing negative thoughts and emotions, and cultivating positive qualities within ourselves.

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Dealing with the Mind

Dealing with the mind involves being deliberate and intentional in your relationship to your thoughts, feelings, sensations, and desires. It is a breakthrough for many to realize that they can actively do things to influence their own mind. This involves being resourceful, taking responsibility for your own well-being, and actively working towards improving your mental state.

Introduction

3min

Handling the Mind and Making Positive Changes

8min

Exploring and Opening Up to Deeper Feelings

10min

Understanding the Role of the Right and Left Hemispheres in Emotion Processing

2min

Dealing with the Mind: Let Be, Let Go, Let In

7min

The mind is a dangerous neighborhood, and there are three ways we can skillfully 'deal with' the often problematic neighbor that lives in our heads. Rick and Forrest explore how we can be with our experience, let go of negative thoughts and feelings, and plant new flowers in the garden of the mind.

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The material in this podcast comes in large part from our book Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness. If you like the podcast, you'll love the book!

Timestamps:

0:30: What do we mean by ‘dealing with the mind?’

3:00: The three ways to deal with the mind

4:50: Why the mind is like a garden

7:00: How mindfulness applies to dealing with the mind

9:30: Why intervention can be diagnostic

11:00: How to practically work through negative material

12:45: How is opening to your ‘experience’ different from opening to your ‘trip’?

14:45: Why the mind is like a septic tank

16:20: Sensing beneath the surface of the mind

19:45: Language, planning, and the brain

22:15: Experiencing things ‘out’

23:10: Being kind to yourself

24:00: How do we get ‘good things’ into the brain?

29:00: Recap

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