Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson Ep. 5: Take the Time to Enjoy Life
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Feb 5, 2018 Discover how enjoying life can be a powerful strength, even during hard times. Dr. Rick Hanson reveals the impact of small pleasures on resilience and brain wiring. Learn to transform key experiences into lasting strengths and navigate cultural misconceptions around enjoyment. Explore how hardship often requires additional factors to lead to growth and how internalizing positive moments can create inner reserves. Finally, find out how to cultivate joy in everyday life, just like Rick's father did with simple pleasures.
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Small Joys During Hard Times
- Rick Hanson describes finding small moments of enjoyment during his father’s last year in the hospital, like joking with the cafeteria worker and noticing the moon on the drive home.
- Those fleeting pleasures helped him keep going and support his dad.
Enjoyment Turbocharges Learning
- Enjoyment increases the brain’s encoding of positive experiences via dopamine and norepinephrine.
- Turning up the enjoyability of an experience turbocharges its installation into your brain.
Savor Key Positive Moments
- When you have a key positive experience, really feel and savor it so it becomes a durable internal resource.
- Let yourself like the experience to help it become part of you.
