About the Author

Rick Hanson

Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a neuropsychologist and author of Hardwiring Happiness (coming in October 2013), Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom (in 24 languages) and Just One Thing: Developing a Buddha...

Meditations for Happiness

Rewire Your Brain for Lasting Contentment and Peace

Rick Hanson

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Happiness is far more than a positive feeling that comes and goes. Science is now proving that happiness is a skill that you can develop.

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Course objectives:

  • List some enduring benefits of happiness.
  • Describe the negativity bias of the brain.
  • Summarize how our brains can make us happy and also create suffering.
  • Practice guided exercises for tapping your innate capacity to nurture and encourage yourself.
  • Utilize meditation to shape your brain over time to experience more joy and be more at ease in everyday life.
  • Apply techniques that re-wire the neural pathways in the brain to experience deeper and more lasting happiness.

Bridging neuropsychology with the great contemplative traditions, Meditations for Happiness brings you a series of practices that allow you to literally rewire the neural pathways in your brain to experience deeper and more lasting contentment.

On part one, Dr. Hanson discusses the nature of happiness, its role in our evolution, how our brains both make us happy and create suffering, and how we can use and shape our brains over time to experience more joy and ease in everyday life. He then guides you step-by-step through more than a dozen meditations and exercises including:

  • A Happiness Trip—explore the many shades of positive emotions that relate to your happiness
  • Gratitude—an antidote to threatening thoughts and feelings
  • Taking Refuge in What's Reliable—root your happiness in the safe harbors of things you can truly count on
  • Coming Home to Happiness—a relaxing session to ease your body-mind back to its natural state of calm and contentment

"Emotions come and go, but true happiness endures," teaches Dr. Hanson. With Meditations for Happiness, he helps you build a foundation of skills for realizing the happiness you desire.

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CD:
Contents 3 CDs (3 hours, 41 minutes)
Date Published June 01, 2011
ISBN-10 1-60407-438-8
ISBN-13 978-1-60407-438-3
Dimensions 5 x 5 3/4 inches
Product Codes 1371d, w1371d, aw01371d
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Contents 1 Audio download (3 hours, 41 minutes)
Date Published June 01, 2011
ISBN-10 1-60407-465-5
ISBN-13 978-1-60407-465-9
Product Codes 1371w, w1371w, aw01371w
CD + CE Credits:
Contents 4 CE credits, 3 CDs (3 hours, 41 minutes)
Date Published September 09, 2011
Product Codes 2609, e2609, ap02609
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Date Published September 09, 2011
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Date Published September 09, 2011
Product Codes 2608, e2608, ce02608

Customer Reviews

By Lynn Ng
Date Added: Sunday 28 April 2013
This meditation programme has been really effective in helping me to understand how I can be happy without even having favorable external conditions. Rick Hanson has been both professional and effective in helping me to understand how my brain works and how happiness can have a lasting effect on me. I would recommend this for anyone who is struggling to be happy.
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By Alynne K
Date Added: Tuesday 26 March 2013
Great little book, perfect for those 5 minute reads
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By Terry L
Date Added: Wednesday 27 February 2013
very informative along with the meditations. Rick Hanson's voice is so calming.
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By Linda Grazier
Date Added: Monday 6 February 2012
Really good explanation of negative bias of the brain with positive examples of how to change those thoughts.
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