Mindful Meditations with Dr. Rick Hanson
Led by psychologist and best-selling author Dr. Rick Hanson, these meditations provide a down-to-earth way to develop greater resilience, compassion, and happiness. More at rickhanson.com
Episodes
61 episodes
Enjoying the Present
In this gentle meditation, we’ll practice letting go of striving and returning to the simple peace of being. As we settle into the body, the breath, and the heart, we’ll explore the quiet freedom of “arriving… enough”—resting in the present wit...
3 Embodied Steps to Inner Peace
This guided meditation moves from grounding in the body and releasing anxiety into opening the heart to kindness, compassion, and love. It invites you to relax effort and rest in the simple experience of breathing, awareness, and the innate goo...
Finding Contentment in the Present
In this meditation, I invited us to settle into the breath and discover the quiet well-being of contentment. Together, we explored what it feels like to let go of striving and rest, if only for a few moments, in the simple fullness of the prese...
Letting Go of Fear, and Resting in Peaceful Confidence
You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. I...
Three Breaths to Rest in Love
You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. I...
Resting in Gladness, Rapture, Tranquility, and Happiness
In this meditation, I invite you to set aside the concerns of the day and explore four nourishing states of mind: gladness, rapture, tranquility, and contentment. Together, we’ll discover how simple moments of joy and peacefulness can become la...
Resting in Openness, Lovingness, Peacefulness
You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. I...
Peaceful Stillness
If you’re feeling stressed, caught up in striving, or carrying more than you need to, this meditation offers a chance to simply let go. Together we’ll rest in the enoughness of the present moment, soften the drive to become or achieve, and reco...
Three Kinds of Calm
This meditation guides you through three stages of calm: warm heartedness, contentment, and peace. It begins by settling into the body and breath, then opens into feelings of kindness and connection, and finally into a quiet sense of being alre...
A Spacious Open Heart
You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. I...
How to Let Go
You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. I...
How to Be Calmer . . . Now
You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. I...
The Wise Effort of Letting Go of Self
You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. I...
Equanimity: Inner Freedom with a Heart as Wide as the World
You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. I...
Cultivating a Mind Without Fear
It’s easy to feel on edge these days—caught in a low hum of anxiety, tension in the body, and a mind that won’t quite settle.In this gentle meditation, I guide you in coming home to yourself—settling into the body, resting in the breath,...
Abiding as Awareness, Lovingness, Vastness
If you often feel tense, contracted, or caught in your thoughts, this meditation helps you relax the body, steady the mind, and reconnect with a deeper sense of openness and ease. Over time, it supports a shift into a more spacious, less reacti...
Enjoying Being, Releasing Becoming
When your mind won’t slow down—when you’re stuck in overthinking, bracing for what might go wrong, or feeling like you always need to do more—this meditation helps you step out of that loop and come back to a sense of safety and enoughness righ...
Stabilizing Open Presence
A gentle meditation for settling into the present moment, releasing effort and pressure, and resting in a natural sense of open, spacious awareness that is already here within you.You’re welcome to join me live each week for these medita...
5 Ways to Steady the Mind
A gentle, brain-based meditation for cultivating steady presence—helping you stay grounded in awareness, anchored in the breath and heart, and less carried away by passing thoughts and feelings.You’re welcome to join me live each week fo...
In the Enoughness of the Present
When the mind is restless, leaning into the future or caught in subtle striving, it can feel like something is always missing. In this meditation, we gently come home to the breath and the body, letting go of effort, settling into a growing sen...
Absorption into Tranquility
In this meditation, you’re invited to gently settle your attention into feelings of peace and open-heartedness. As the mind grows more concentrated, these qualities can gradually expand, pervading the body and filling awareness with a quiet sen...
Resting in the Heart while Letting Go
A gentle meditation inviting you to rest in the heart, soften into trust, and practice letting go into the natural flow of experience.You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at h...
You Are Whole and Complete, and There Is Nothing to Add
When life pulls you in many directions, it’s easy to stay tense or distracted, never quite at ease in your own being. This meditation invites you to settle where you are, release what’s not needed, and rest your attention on something steady—li...