Molti di noi si sentono bloccati, se non addirittura intrappolati, nelle relazioni. Magari con un collega difficile o un coinquilino esasperante, con un cogenitore poco collaborativo, un parente disaffezionato, un capo sempre pronto a criticare o un coniuge disamorato. La situazione può sembrare disperata. Ma ecco la buona notizia: migliaia di studi scientifici dimostrano che le relazioni non ci vengono date così come sono, bensì siamo noi a crearle e a dare loro una forma. Questo ci conferisce il potere di migliorarle.» Con parole che infondono grande speranza, Rick Hanson ci mostra in modo semplice e immediato i passi che sono in nostro potere per guarire le vecchie ferite e trovare sostegno e felicità nelle relazioni, per renderle migliori. Sono nate con questo intento le 50 lezioni pratiche di resilienza raccolte in questo libro, da consultare e seguire secondo le nostre personali esigenze. Ricche di consigli e spunti originali, ci indicheranno la strada per comunicare con efficacia in contesti di ogni tipo, farci valere, esprimere i nostri sentimenti più profondi, restare fuori dai litigi sterili, dire (e ottenere) ciò che vogliamo, ridimensionare le relazioni a seconda delle necessità, perdonare gli altri e noi stessi, prendere le cose meno sul personale, sentirci davvero accuditi... Teoria e pratica si fondono perfettamente in questo libro che è di per sé un toccasana per il nostro benessere psicologico e mentale.

La chiave per trasformare le esperienze effimere in risorse interiori durature è già custodita dentro di noi ed è la nostra forza. La vera capacità di adattarsi a un mondo in continuo cambiamento scaturisce da forze interne come la grinta, la gratitudine e la compassione. Questa è la resilienza, quella dote di cui abbiamo bisogno ogni giorno per crescere una famiglia, lavorare insieme ad altri, affrontare lo stress, i problemi di salute, le divergenze, il dolore o semplicemente i momenti di difficoltà. Con la sua caratteristica miscela di neuroscienza, mindfulness e psicologia positiva, il dottor Rick Hanson ci mostra come sviluppare dodici forze interiori vitali legate al nostro sistema nervoso. Attraverso una guida pratica, piena di suggerimenti concreti, esercizi, esempi personali e informazioni preziose su come funziona il nostro cervello, ci offre gli strumenti per affrontare le sfide della vita con meno ansia, più ottimismo, fiducia in noi stessi, calma e concentrazione. Caloroso, incoraggiante ed efficace, l'approccio passo-passo del dottor Hanson insegna come allenare il nostro cervello ai pensieri positivi, come liberarsi dai sentimenti dolorosi e sostituirli con autocompassione, autostima, gioia e pace interiore.

La vera capacità di adattarsi a un mondo in continuo cambiamento scaturisce da forze interne come la grinta, la gratitudine e la compassione. Questa è la resilienza, quella dote di cui abbiamo bisogno ogni giorno per crescere una famiglia, lavorare insieme ad altri, affrontare lo stress, i problemi di salute, le divergenze, il dolore o semplicemente i momenti di difficoltà. Con la sua caratteristica miscela di neuroscienza, mindfulness e psicologia positiva, il dottor Rick Hanson ci mostra come sviluppare dodici forze interiori vitali legate al nostro sistema nervoso. Attraverso una guida pratica, piena di suggerimenti concreti, esercizi, esempi personali e informazioni preziose su come funziona il nostro cervello, ci offre gli strumenti per affrontare le sfide della vita con meno ansia, più ottimismo, fiducia in noi stessi, calma e concentrazione. Caloroso, incoraggiante ed efficace, l'approccio passo-passo del dottor Hanson insegna come allenare il nostro cervello ai pensieri positivi, come liberarsi dai sentimenti dolorosi e sostituirli con autocompassione, autostima, gioia e pace interiore.

'SEE THROUGH THE LIES YOUR BRAIN TELLS YOU Why is it easier to ruminate over hurt feelings than it is to bask in the warmth of being appreciated? Your brain was wired this way when it evolved, primed to learn quickly from bad experiences, but not so muchfrom the good ones. It's an ancient survival mechanism that turned the brain into Velcro for the negative, but Teflon for the positive. Life isn't easy, and having a brain wired to take in the bad and ignore the good makes us worried, irritated and stressed, instead of confident, secure and happy. Every day is filled with opportunities to build these strengths inside, but the brain is designed to ignore and waste them. This makes you come down harder on yourself than you do other people, feel inadequate even though you get a hundred things done, and lonely even when support is all around. Dr. Rick Hanson, an acclaimed neuropsychologist and internationally bestselling author, shows us what we can do to override the brain's default programming. Hardwiring Happiness lays out a simple method that uses the hidden power of everyday experiences to build new neural structures that stick to happiness, love, confidence, and peace. Dr. Hanson's four steps build a brain strong enough to withstand its ancient negativity bias, allowing contentment and a powerful sense of well-being to become the new normal. In mere minutes each day, we can transform our brains into oases of calm and happiness. We can hardwire in happiness'--

Even after years of spiritual practice, self-improvement, or therapy, many of us still have trouble with one essential challenge: self-acceptance. How do we stop from constantly judging ourselves as inadequate, finding fault with our bodies, or being plagued by our inner critics? The Self-Acceptance Project was created to help us find a solution. In this collection of essays, contemporary luminaries in spirituality, psychology, and creativity offer insights and teachings for truly embracing who we are—no matter what our circumstances.

Why is it often so much easier to feel compassion and forgiveness toward others than toward ourselves? Where do our self-critical voices come from? Can we be motivated to grow and excel while still accepting ourselves as we are? In these 20 offerings, some of today’s most trusted teachers share valuable practices and techniques for building confidence, transforming our relationships with our inner critics, and cultivating kindness and compassion toward ourselves on a consistent basis.

Your body has a natural sense of truth. But in our modern world, this innate wisdom is usually obscured by our conditioned beliefs and deep-seated attitudes that lead us astray as we go about our lives and work. How can we move beyond knee-jerk reactions to our experience and learn to receive and respond to the clear knowing held within the body?

With In Touch, John J .Prendergast helps us learn how to stop confusion and self-doubt in their tracks and navigate life's challenges with confidence, grace, and authenticity. Through step-by-step instruction and practical exercises that anyone can master, readers will discover how to identify limiting beliefs based on where the body is holding tension; how to distinguish true inner knowing from egoic fears and desires; how to attune with a core relaxation, groundedness, inner alignment, spacious silence, and openheartedness-the five sensory markers of inner knowing; and how to begin living our lives in accordance with the truth of who and what we are.

Troppo spesso ci soffermiamo solo sugli aspetti negativi della nostra vita, trascurando quelli positivi. In questo libro troverai tutte le istruzioni per cambiare il tuo cervello in meglio con l'aiuto della mente, ed imparerai così a riconoscere il bene,

You've heard the expression, “It’s the little things that count.” It's more than a simple platitude. Research has shown that integrating little daily practices into your life can actually change the way your brain works.

This guide offers simple things you can do routinely, mainly inside your mind, that will support and increase your sense of security and worth, resilience, effectiveness, well-being, insight, and inner peace. For example, they include: taking in the good, protecting your brain, feeling safer, relaxing anxiety about imperfection, not knowing, enjoying your hands, taking refuge, and filling the hole in your heart. At first glance, you may be tempted to underestimate the power of these seemingly simple practices. But they will gradually change your brain through what’s called experience-dependent neuroplasticity.

Moment to moment, whatever you're aware of—sounds, sensations, thoughts, or your most heartfelt longings—is based on underlying neural activities. This audiobook offers simple brain training practices you can do every day to protect against stress, lift your mood, and find greater emotional resilience.

Just one practice each day can help you to:

• Be good to yourself
• Enjoy life as it is
• Build on your strengths
• Be more effective at home and work
• Make peace with your emotions

With over fifty daily practices you can use anytime, anywhere, Just One Thing is a groundbreaking combination of mindfulness meditation and neuroscience that can help you deepen your sense of well-being and unconditional happiness.

“Most of us experience our greatest joys and sorrows in our relationships,” teaches Rick Hanson. With The Neurodharma of Love, this acclaimed author reveals how current brain science and time-tested Buddhist insights are converging to show us the way to greater intimacy and happiness .

Dr. Hanson shows listeners how to strengthen the underlying neural circuits of empathy, compassion, kindness, romance, love, and skillful assertiveness to improve their relationships at the deepest levels. He offers meditations and practices to help us shift out of fight-or-flight reactivity, heal childhood relationship wounds, find a healthy balance of intimacy and independence, open the heart, resolve conflicts with others, and lay the neuropsychological foundation for lasting love.

The Buddha and other great teachers were born with brains built essentially like anyone else’s—and then they changed their brains in ways that changed the world.

Science is now revealing how the flow of thoughts actually sculpts the brain. By combining breakthroughs in neuroscience with insights from thousands of years of contemplative practice, you, too, can use your mind to shape your brain for greater happiness, love, and wisdom.

Buddha’s Brain draws on the latest research to show how to stimulate and strengthen your brain for more fulfilling relationships, a deeper spiritual life, and a greater sense of inner confidence and worth. You’ll learn how to activate the brain states of calm, joy, and compassion instead of worry, sorrow, and anger. This clear, down-to-earth book is filled with practical tools and skills that you can use in daily life to tap the unused potential of your brain and rewire it over time for greater well-being and peace of mind.

See Through The Lies Your Brain Tells You

Why is it easier to ruminate over hurt feelings than it is to bask in the warmth of feeling loved? Your brain was wired in such a way when it evolved, primed to learn quickly from bad experiences, but not so much from the good ones. It's an ancient survival mechanism that turned the brain into Velcro for the negative, but Teflon for the positive.

Self-Directed Brain Change is based on a significant emerging insight from neuroscience: that to keep our ancestors alive, the human brain evolved to cling to negative experiences like Velcro and shrug off the positive ones like Teflon. The good news, teaches Rick Hanson, is that we can retrain our neural structure out of 'sheer survival' mode and into one of greater well-being, mental clarity, and moment-to-moment appreciation. In this practice-focused program, Dr. Hanson teaches us how to:

.Shift our evolutionary fear and survival bias into one of 'taking in the good'
.Use every positive moment or state to rewire happiness as an enduring neural trait
.Work with difficult and painful emotional memories to 'fill the hole in the heart'
.Increase and deepen our daily experiences of love, gratitude, and contentment
.Build inner resilience in the face of stress and challenging situations, improve our interpersonal relationships, and much more

Is it possible to rewire yourself for happiness? A growing body of evidence from this pioneering neuropsychologist and his colleagues says yes, we can. And with Self-Directed Brain Change, listeners will learn how.

La maggior parte delle persone pensa che il proprio cervello abbia delle caratteristiche precise e immutabili. Rick Hanson ci dimostra che la verità è molto diversa: così come un fiume modifica il terreno su cui scorre, i nostri pensieri cambiano la struttura del cervello e le sue capacità. Possiamo guardarci in quest'opera come in uno specchio. Scopriremo di avere qualità molto più varie di quelle che ci attribuiamo o che ci attribuiscono gli altri. Giorno dopo giorno apprenderemo come sostenere il nostro cervello con fiducia, positività, gioia e, per tutta risposta, il nostro cervello ci stupirà. Possiamo cambiare tutto: il carattere, le abitudini, la saggezza, la capacità di avere amicizie e amori autentici, la volontà di stare bene e di essere sempre felici. Goccia a goccia possiamo diventare un fiume in piena e avvicinarci alla Mente di Buddha! 'I grandi cambiamenti cominciano da un piccolo passo!'

Awakening Somatic Intelligence: The Art and Practice of Embodied Mindfulness offers a guide to Somatic Learning, an innovative body-oriented approach that incorporates mindfulness, visualization, breathing exercises, postures, and stretches. Developed by author, psychotherapist, and award-winning songwriter and poet Risa Kaparo, PhD, Somatic Learning is based on leading-edge research demonstrating the power of the mind to activate physiological, mental, and emotional healing. Kaparo has successfully used her approach with patients suffering from chronic pain, high blood pressure, and mood disorders including depression and anxiety.
 
Recounting her own struggle with chronic pain, Kaparo begins with a moving description of her journey from crippling pain to renewed health and aliveness. Kaparo introduces the concepts and characteristics of Somatic Learning, a method that grew out of her personal healing experience. Incorporating the latest brain research in mindfulness and neuroplasticity, the book presents breathing exercises; postures and stretches for morning and bedtime; instructions for integrating mindfulness practice into one's daily life; and ways of deepening the practice through touch and caring interaction with others. Enhanced with over 100 detailed instructional photos and illustrations, the book includes inspiring case stories and the author's own expressive poetry that illuminate the healing power of this practice.

Outlines more than fifty accessible meditative practices involving a variety of techniques, explaining the neuroscience and psychology behind specific practices and how they can reduce stress and promote inner peace.

Outlines more than fifty accessible meditative practices involving a variety of techniques, explaining the neuroscience and psychology behind specific practices and how they can reduce stress and promote inner peace.

There's been a major breakthrough in the world's oldest research experiment. For over 2,500 years, Buddhist meditators have investigated the human psyche. Now with the help of modern neuroscience, we have gained an unprecedented understanding of how the brain responds to meditation practice which gives you powerful tools for changing your own brain for more happiness, love, and wisdom. With The Enlightened Brain, Dr. Rick Hanson shows you how to restore the calm, contented, and caring state that is your brain's natural condition. Includes guided practices for strengthening mindfulness, bringing peace to anger and anxiety, deepening meditation, releasing ego, and much more.

The author discusses the nature of happiness, its role in our evolution and the brain science behind happiness and suffering, and then goes on to lead the listener through 14 meditations and exercises designed to rewire that brain's neural pathways and open the door to more happiness. Read by the author. By the author of Just One Thing.

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Our brains have evolved powerful tools for coping with threats and danger-but in the face of modern stresses like information overload, money worries, and interpersonal conflicts, our survival reflexes can do more harm than good. To help you adapt your nervous system to the challenges of today's world, neuropsychologist Dr. Rick Hanson presents Stress-Proof Your Brain. Join him to learn research-based techniques and meditations that will literally re-shape your brain to make you more resilient, confident, and peaceful, including: - How to replace your brain's unhealthy reactions to stress with protective and self-nurturing responses- Techniques for using memory to soothe and release painful feelings of sadness, guilt, anxiety, inadequacy, or anger - Guided meditations for calming chronic worries, developing gratitude, building inner strength, and more - How to re-wire your brain away from frustration, heartache, fear, and anger toward contentment, love, and peace. Modern brain research has helped us discover which contemplative practices have the most positive impact on our physical and mental health. With Stress-Proof Your Brain, Dr. Rick Hanson brings you scientifically sound tools for finding freedom from irritability, worry, and overwhelm-by deepening your neurological capacity for happiness and wellness.