Dr. Rick Hanson is a psychologist, speaker, and an author.
How often do you find yourself stuck replaying a situation you wish you could just forget? No matter how much you want to move on, your mind keeps circling back. So what are the practical strategies to break free from rumination, quiet the mental noise, and finally reclaim control of your thoughts?
Expect to learn how you can develop more self-compassion, why its so hard for people to let go of obsessive thinking and why we tend to ruminate a lot, how to move on from a breakup, insult, slight or a regret, how to “let go” of of emotionally charged memories, Dr Hanson’s favourite techniques to interrupt repetitive thought spirals, how people can consciously reframe the narrative after rejection, and much more…
Mentioned Books
- A Path with Heart by Jack Kornfield
- A Still Forest Pool by Ajahn Chah
- Beyond the Pleasure Principle by Sigmund Freud (Essay)
- Food for the Heart by Ajahn Chah
- I and Thou by Martin Buber
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
- Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening by Joseph Goldstein
- Now: The Physics of Time by Richard Muller
- On Becoming a Person by Carl Rogers
- On Becoming a Person by Carl Rogers (Essay collection)
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson
- The Dhammapada by Anonymous (Buddhist scripture)
- The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
- The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
- The Red Book by Carl Gustav Jung
- The Summer Day by Mary Oliver (Essay)
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Zen Flesh, Zen Bones by Paul Reps and Nyogen Senzaki