Taking Refuge in Your Good Intentions with Dr. Rick Hanson

Once you pause and look truthfully at your life, it may be arduous to know whether or not you’re dwelling from what really issues—or simply reacting to the world round you. 

So this week, I explored the character of excellent intentions, alternative, and values. Once you make clear what you care about most, it’s simpler to stay with ethical readability with out slipping into self-judgment or sick will, and translate intentions into every day motion. 

I’m inviting you to acknowledge your individual goodness and to take refuge within the good intentions already dwelling by way of you.

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Discuss: Good Intentions

Timecodes & important subjects:

• 00:00 – Do we actually have alternative? Freedom, accountability, and why intentions matter even in a universe of causes.
• 3:25 – Why values are unavoidable—and the way knowledge means selecting higher happiness over lesser ones.
• 6:47 – Clarifying what really issues this yr. Transferring past “shoulds” to bottom-up values that really feel alive and true.
• 10:01 – Proper intention: non-harming, non-ill-will, non-attachment. Together with the often-overlooked observe of not harming your future self.
• 18:40 – Methods to stay your values day-to-day. 5 research-based methods to truly implement intentions (atmosphere, schedule, help, reminders, and taking within the good).
• 24:29 – Ethical reasoning and defending your self correctly. Understanding completely different ranges of ethical reasoning—and why clear seeing issues.
• 32:40 – Taking refuge in your individual goodness. What occurs while you permit your self to know you’re essentially a very good individual.

A Meditation: Easy Being

A delicate, spacious meditation for these moments when striving will get exhausting. Collectively we discover who you’re while you’re not going anyplace or attempting to repair something—resting in open-hearted presence, a way of vastness, and the easy reduction of coming dwelling to being, with loads of quiet to let the expertise deepen.