Strengthen Resilience: Dr. Rick Hanson Inspired Meditation

By taking a few extra seconds to stay with a positive experience, you help turn a passing mental state into lasting neural structure, says neuroscientist Rick Hanson. Our brains are Teflon for the good and Velcro for the bad, but we have the power to change that wiring. This simple practice created by Dr. Hanson strengthens your resilience, heals past wounds, and resets your system for joy and well-being.

Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke.
Photo by Classy Amin.

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Beautiful concept to vividly recalll and dwell on positive experiences to strengthen our ability to focus on what lights us up. I will take from this, that I ensure I dont let emotions like that pass me by going forward...but rather, like a gratitude practice, ill sit and allow myself t marinade in the experience.

However the next part I found much more difficult to do-but maybe its because its something unfamiliar that I need to practice more. The idea of taking that positive emotion to help with negative memories in the past is a new idea to me. For example, the way my body reacts to the idea of a country walk in the sun, on a spring day, birds singing, clean air, views of incredible landscapes...the joy brought to me from that scenario does not feel like the same emotion that Id experience and apply to me as a child; when recalling a negative emotion of being left out of other children's games and watching them all have fun and me wanting to find a way to connect and join in. I cant see how I can sooth the loneliness my inner child felt from those memories with the feelings from a walk in nature as an adult.
Any further guidance would be appreciated. X

Great meditation. Fanstatic pacing. Easy to follow the images and feelings of the positive experience. And bring it to the difficult one. Thank you so much!

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Really helpful. Thank you

Simply wonderful, cellular 😊 happiness. Thankyou and blessings from ireland.