Top 21 Rick Hanson Quotes
#1. To become happier, wiser, and more loving, sometimes you have to swim against ancient currents within your nervous system.
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#2. The mind (and brain) takes its shape from what it rests upon, and you're letting it mold itself around the positive experience that you are taking in.
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#3. Deep down in the emotional memory centers of your brain, imagined experiences build neural structures through mechanisms similar to those that actual, lived experiences use.
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#4. Your brain is the most important organ in your body, and what happens in it determines what you think and feel, say and do. Many studies show that your experiences are continually changing your brain one way or another. This book is about getting good at changing your brain for the better.
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#5. Only if we grant power to something can it have power over us. It becomes a serving and sustaining potency when we again are able to place it into the realm where it belongs, instead of submitting to it.
Jean Gebser
#6. My most memorable dunk, that I think about very, very often, is the Patrick Ewing dunk.
Michael Jordan
#7. Truth is not ... something to believe or disbelieve. The things we believe are always less than Truth[.]
Steve Hagen
#8. Nurturing your own development isn't selfish. It's actually a great gift to other people.
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#9. The brain is good at learning from bad experiences, but bad at learning from good ones.
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#10. to help our ancestors survive, the brain evolved a negativity bias that makes it like Velcro for bad experiences but Teflon for good ones.
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#11. you can decide to get eggs from the refrigerator without craving them - and without getting upset if there are none left.
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#12. Trying to be funny is one of the hardest things on the planet. I think that's tough for everyone. If you're just naturally funny it's a hell of a lot easier.
Doc Brown
#13. The thing is, I don't do these things for recognition, being a good teammate, being a positive member of the community. I do them because those things make me whole and complete.
Dwyane Wade
#14. All sentient beings developed through natural selection in such a way that pleasant sensations serve as their guide, and especially the pleasure derived from sociability and from loving our families. - Charles Darwin
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#15. More than ever, the human world needs to find ways to build love, understanding, and peace, individually and on a global scale.
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#16. well-being becomes increasingly unconditional,
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#17. Everything changes. That's the universal nature of outer reality and inner experience. Therefore, there's no end to disturbed equilibria as long as you live.
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#18. There are three fundamental phases to psychological and spiritual growth: being with difficult material (e.g., old wounds, anger); releasing it; and replacing it with something more beneficial.
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#19. I highly recommend the approach Marshall Rosenberg details in Nonviolent Communication (2nd Edition 2008), which has essentially three parts: When X happens [described factually, not judgmentally], I feel Y [especially the deeper, softer emotions], because I need Z [fundamental needs and wants].
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#20. Suffering has clear causes in your brain and body, so if you change its causes, you'll suffer a lot less. And you can change those causes.
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#21. And no other attempt made at secrecy than Mrs. Norris's talking of it everywhere as a matter not to be talked of at present.
Jane Austen
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