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
69 episodes
Coming Home to Spaciousness and Lovingness
This meditation invites you to settle into your body and the present moment, using the breath as a steady anchor. As thoughts, feelings, and sounds move through awareness, you are encouraged to let them come and go without resistance or getting...
Absorption in Calm Strength
Settle into a sense of calm strength and open-hearted presence, grounded in the safety of this moment. This meditation helps you soften unnecessary guarding, rest in what is strong and steady within you, and open to the world around you with gr...
Open Awareness, Settling into Stillness
Settle into a sense of being already full and whole, resting in the spaciousness of awareness so you can meet whatever comes with greater steadiness, openness, and love. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditation...
Resting in the Courage and Goodness Inside You
In this meditation, we’ll settle into the body, find a steadier ground beneath fear and anxiety, and get a felt sense of the courage, open-heartedness, and basic goodness that are already here inside you.You’re welcome to join me live ea...
Stable and Centered in a Shaky World
This meditation invites you to rest in a grounded sense of self, cultivating the inner calm, compassion, and clarity needed to stay connected with others while honoring your own healthy boundaries.You’re welcome to join me live each week...
Contemplating Awareness Itself
In this meditation, guest teacher Melvin McLeod and Rick invite you to slow down, settle the mind, and gently notice your experience as it is, cultivating the insight, self-compassion, and inner steadiness that can help ease suffering and suppo...
Rest in the Enoughness of Now
In this meditation, I’ll guide you to become grounded in your body, release needless anxiety and striving, and rest in the peaceful sense that what you’re receiving in this moment is already enough.You’re welcome to join me live each wee...
Establishing Posture, Simply Being
In this meditation, I’ll guide you into a grounded, open sense of presence, where you can let go of striving, rest in simply being, and feel that you—and this moment—are already enough.You’re welcome to join me live each week for these m...
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,...