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Rick Hanson, PhD
Laying Down the Foundation: An In-Depth Mindfulness Practice
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What You'll Learn
Hear an in-depth guided practice instruction on how to lay the right foundation for a mindfulness practice
Learn the practical neuroscience behind mindfulness, how it's changing your brain for the better, and how to use it to grow the qualities you want
Discover practical tools for bringing mindfulness into various moments of your day
About Rick Hanson, PhD
Dr. Hanson has been a trustee of Saybrook University, served on the board of Spirit Rock Meditation Center, 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, California. His work has been featured on the BBC, CBS, and NPR, and he offers the free Just One Thing newsletter with 150,000 subscribers, plus the online Foundations of Well-Being program in positive neuroplasticity that anyone with financial need can do for free.
Learn more about Rick at his website.
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Hi there! My name is Suzette Misrachi and I live in Melbourne, Australia. I love this series. Each individual has given me so many wonderful ideas. I try to practice mindfulness, compassion and everything in between in my clinical work with people who grew up with parents with a serious mental illness. I also try to teach them some of the skills that have been taught here. My work is often based on my research entitled: “Lives unseen: unacknowledged trauma of non-disordered, competent Adult Children Of Parents with a Severe Mental Illness”. This work led me to being invited to write brief articles on trauma and grief for mental health practitioners which I then offer for free to the general public. For those interested, just Google my name. I’m really enjoying this summit. It brings me closer to the outside world, now as I am self-quarantining due to the current Coroner virus emergency. Each presenter in this summit has a unique and lovely way of connecting despite having just a boring computer at that! It feels like we’ve known you all for years… Thanks to all the organisers for their generosity and to all those who very kindly presented this gift to us all. May you, and may we all across the world, remain safe and healthy, with love.
absolutely amazing, thank you!
Thank you, Dr..Rick Hanson! That was awesome. You are the best.
Thank you so much 🙂 I am grateful to have the mindfulness practices and tips to cultivate my capacity of steadying my mind! I feel warm and support from the video !
Thank you Dr Rick Hanson,paying attention and focusing will not be a difficult job from now onwards. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much 🙂 I am grateful to have the mindfulness practices and tips to cultivate my capacity of steadying my mind! I feel warm and support from the video !
I deeply appreciate this meditation as it helped me to relax at a much deeper level in the body and mind helping ease the headache I had had most of the day! Thank you!
Wow! Thanks Dr Rick Hansen now i feel like i have a better idea what mindfulness is and how it can help bring calm and peace into my day
Thank you Dr Hanson. Eternal gratitude for your teachings!
Thank you, I truly appreciate the clarification/assurance that this is something that will need to be practiced and trained within us. I could not maintain the entire exercise, but still was able to hang out and gain a deeper understanding. Understanding what is happening behind the scenes is also very helpful!
Hello, Dinis here from Portugal.
Thank you for a comforting and important summit, that comes in a time of much needed compassion for ourselves and others. Hope you and your families are all doing well. Continue with the great work that you are doing.
Stay safe,
It´s difficult to explain in few words, and with my poor english, how important is for us from South America to acces to this teachings by free. It could be better if we can acces with spanish subtitles and if you could extend the hours available becouse we are having serius problems with WiFi in the quarantine. Thanks you Dr Hanson for your simplicity and humility to share this lifelong knowledge. Betina from Villa Carlos Paz, Córdoba. ARGENTINA.
Hola compatriota !! Siguiendo tambien desde Mar del Plata !! Que estes bien !!
WOW! I feel fantastic! Such a beautiful, loving energy in my heart/mind/body. Thank you.
WOW… thank you Rick and Kayleigh, Awake Network! I feel like I am on the cusp of what I have been searching for so many years. My body is screaming, RELAX, and after your meditation Rick, I realize how difficult it is for me to Let Go, I am aware of so much resistance in my body. But also a kind of gratitude and hopefulness from my body that I am finally paying Attention! thank you so much. Jill
Daniel from Ecuador.
Quick question. These four levels of mindfulness, are they the same or related to the four domains of Satipatthana? I’m learning all about this for the first time.
The summit is wonderful, by the way! I’m learning so much!
Hi, I’m in Cape Town, South Africa, so watching the recordings
I enjoyed Rick Hanson’s practice session and talk. His voice is very soft, as another person commented on
I also appreciated the questions from Kayleigh about difficulties she experienced when starting and that Rick’s response was very reassuring and understanding. Thank you, too, for the advice to ‘honour your personality’
Thank you so much. I always love listening to Rick Hansen, he is always so detailed and thorough in his explanations…plus, it’s great that he continually reminds us too, to be gentle with ourselves. Wonderful stuff!! Again, thank you.
I practiced mindfulness for about 7 months last year but I found that I got increasingly anxious. I haven’t done it for a few months. I’ve been trying it again, since yesterday, and I still get a feeling of increased anxiety. I’m beginning to think that mindfulness meditation is not for me, and is actually counterproductive.
Note the care with which Rick speaks of choosing your object of focus and his emphasis on treating yourself gently.
Your observations show you are doing it right and your Comment shows you honored yourself. Double points!
You are not alone.
Please look up the work of David Treleaven.
https://davidtreleaven.com/
Holy Mackerel, that was a single hour? I am filled to the brim with a need to practice what Rick preached! Thank you for a spectacular hour of re-presenting what your first books and many lectures began to present. Off to the bookstore, and the website! Thank you
Thank you for the wonderful meditation. It was a very intense experience for me. I was grateful for the debrief and discussion afterwards.
Loved his mediation and comments. Could have don’t without her negative questions afterwards.
This was great. I especially enjoyed the second half. ‘Knowing why you are doing this is an excellent tool to help one stay focused in the midst of a storm. At the end, I felt that I received a practical tool that I can apply immediately to my practice. I will definitely watch Rick Hanson’s other videos (after the summit). Thank you.
I was really into Dr. Hansons meditation and really feeling good afterwards. but then that clincial woman starting bringing up all negative stuff. about it and it tended to negate the experience. why didn’t she ask these questions before the mediation or in another session entirely. Maybe he could have a sparate experience just for clinical professional personal.
I liked it too. I meditate consistently but this was helpful and informative.
.Wow. That meditation was DEEP. It’s still with me. Thank you.
Oh this one is a real treat. SO far my favorite. Surprised no comments yet. Love Rick and thank you all who put this together for FREE for all of us, right when we really need it. I am advanced in techniques so cool to see him go into some of that.
Soft spoken speakers like Rick Hanson need the microphone
turned up PLEASE.
JANE🌹
Rick emulates mindful compassion through his voice, choice of word, sensitivity and mannerisms . He embodies mindfulness in such an organic way that it transmits through his meditation to the rest of the world. Thank you so much for this uplifting and encouraging session .
Thank you 💚🙏! Very interesting and nice to listen to, and I liked the meditation!
/ Johanna from Sweden
Wonderful! I always enjoy his post “One thing at a time”.
Thank you, Kayleigh and the Awake Network!
I am the founder and CEO of The Parent Venture (The Parent Education Serie) that provides high-quality parent and community education in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley. Kelly McGonigal is one of our longtime favorite presenters!
I’m really enjoying your video format with you as moderator and your guests appearing on video. Would you be willing to chat/email with me about what you used, tech-wise?
Take care and stay well.
Charlene
Grateful for the Summit, all speakers, and all participants. Perfect timing.
Thank you Dr Hanson. Eternal gratitude for your teachings!