Rick Hanson

Here’s a new audio program from the coauthor of Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom. Science is now proving that happiness is far more than a positive feeling that comes and goes. It’s a skill that you can develop.

Our brains have evolved powerful tools for coping with threats and danger—but in the face of modern stresses like information overload, money worries, and interpersonal conflicts, our survival reflexes can do more harm than good.

In Buddha's Brain, Rick Hanson explained the neuroscience underlying meditation and helped readers maximize the benefits of mindfulness for greater happiness and peace of mind.

Throughout history, people have sought the heights of human potential—to become as wise and strong, happy and loving, as any person can ever be. And now recent science is revealing how these remarkable ways of being are based on equally remarkable changes in our own nervous system.

These days its hard to count on the world outside. So its vital to grow strengths inside like grit, gratitude, and compassionthe key to resilience, and to lasting well-being in a changing world.