Trying to do that now. Thank you!

So insightful, as always! This is really helpful. Thank you so much, Rick 🙏🏻😍

Beautiful. Thank you, Rick. 🙏🏻

I am shocked the Buddha did not understand that the dog is already enlightened.

Thank you!

Thank you🪷.

Thank u

Thx Rick- good reminder ❤

It’s amazing how a person can LOOK perfectly fine while living in hell or having just endured a gigantic tragedy. You never know. It’s why compassion is so important.

I use a quote ‘to be interesting you need to be interested’ was that your quote :)

This is often a neurodivergence thing. When I'm anxious, especially if I'm anxious due to dealing with new people or being in a new environment, I default to the comfort of saying familiar things, mostly humorous lines or anecdotes I've said many times before and know people tend to like. It's very, very hard for me to think of the words to ask questions during those interactions. In fact, for people like me who are ADHD/autistic and mostly hang out with others who are similar flavors of neurospicy, our version of courtesy often involves _avoiding_ asking many questions, because we don't want to put anyone on the spot or make someone feel pressured to elaborate on something they maybe didn't want to (since most of us experience and dislike that kind of perceived pressure). It's much more utilitarian to just trust that everyone in the group will share stuff they want to share, and just riff off whatever topics have come up along the way, without adding the weird extra layer of guessing at "what question does this person want me to ask so they can say what they want to?". So, for people who don't relate to this, if you're dealing with someone like me, fyi it's perfectly fine to just share your own stories in return without being explicitly invited by questions! That's what many of us are used to!

Thank you so much for this. I have a deeply ingrained habit of looking outside myself for comfort. In deeply troubling times I am now facing I needed to hear "remember that you are here for you"!

So important for me while things in my life are so challenging and chaotic. It doesn't have to be "bad" all the time!!

Dear mister Hanson, thank you so much for your good good work. Wishing you keep on doing this for years to come❤ it benefits me on a daily base. With gratitude 🙏🏻 bless all who bring hope!

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That's most men that are out dating

Good advice for dates guys! Listen more than talk.

Thank you for making this, Dr. Rick Hanson.

Thankyou

This is all great and one of the consequences is that often people will use the words, but there is no truth behind them. As Dr. has said, you have to have good intentions - not just use the right words.

Thank you so much, Dr. Hanson. You are an amazing teacher!

I'm aware of losing time as I age, but have to accept time passing, good reason to stay in the present. Thankyou for this talk.

Thank you for this 🙏❤

Thank you for this information. I appreciate the applicable and practical application. I would not have thought you would be struggling with not being seen and the pain that goes with that. Accept, and grieving helped me too but hearing you story allows me to let out a sigh. I blamed myself for not standing up, but I see acceptance and grieving and letting go is the best strategy. Thank you, Dr Hanson.

Stretch & dance 😊

My favourite guided meditation...

What if you just like talking about things like opinions about stuff, I find it awkward when people ask me direct questions, I prefer to chat about ideas, places, events etc

Californians to a tee, Rick 😂 You notice because you weren't raised there!

I would suggest that they take 5 minutes out of their day to write down what an ideal tomorrow would look like for them before they go to sleep 🙂

You are such an interesting person that they missed out on a great conversation by not asking you questions. 😔

This happens to me. It sometimes feels like I don't even have a chance to ask questions.

This is boomer af and a very self-absorbed way to look at a friendship. You're not in a meeting. It's not a talk show interview. Relationships are not about performative cerimonial script-like soulless verbal exchanges like that, its about relaxing and enjoying some time together. The trivialities of your everyday lives are irrelevant in the moments you are free and together. Live in the moment. Stop waiting for the opportunity to rattle off other things you've done, stop interrogating your friends, just exist together, and have a good time. You are entirely too old to still be talking to your friends as if you are trying to impress your parents' friends.

It’s amazing how much that happens 🙁. Not even a how are you?

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You’re so lovely, Rick. Thank you for your beautiful & nourishing words🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

Practice gratitude

I learned a lesson in patience from my husband many years ago, sitting waiting in a very crowded Haematology Clinic to see the Doctor. He was not feeling well (chemo) and I expressed dismay that we had to wait (hours). He turned to me and said he had decided to change the way he thought about it. To him it became a privilege, to sit in that room and wait for however long it took, unwell, over many months, to be seen and to be cured. Patience, the need to wait, for something that you want or need, really is a privilege, even in a supermarket queue. I am content now to try to wait with good grace rather than impatience and I am grateful for that different perspective he gave me. You are an amazing life teacher Rick, thank you.

Conscious breathing

If you tube had a button for "show me this frequently" or "...videos from this channel frequently" this would be where I would use it.

love North Carolina! I lived in 28226 2000 into 2008. I reside on Capitol Hill NE OKC

wow thank you I need to journal about things, thank you I am listneing. I dont have a rigid fixed set of hands on polisci, I mean its a college course and a time in life where I studied about polisci. I dont have any attachment to or about leadership traits. I think of traits not posiitons and I dont let myself forget that every adminitrations is still and always, common routine existing concerns. unkind leadership traits come and go. I study hisotry and see it all part of the human story. I try to live in today and I live in and consider 2032.

Fabulous!

Thank you! Just FYI the shorts on YT on the phone put a number of icons over the right side of the screen, which obscures the text on that side. Not sure if it’s something you’d like to avoid for mobile users, but I thought I’d mention it in case it is! ❤

Love themselves.

I don't bring ice cream or really good sweet treats into my house. I know I will eat it more frequently than "once in a while"

I love how expressive Dr. H. Is ❤😊

Beautiful ❤ Thank you

Thank you!❤

Ty❤

"right . here. now....is this"