Practical Wisdom with Dr. Rick Hanson
Jul 1, 2026 · 45 min · 12 segments
Many of us think of meditation and inner practice as serious, even grim work. But what if joy itself is part of the path? In this talk, I explored four emotionally positive states — gladness, rapture…
Rick HansonHost
When you look back on your own journey of practice, all the way back even perhaps to being very young and you, by practice I mean started making deliberate efforts in your own mind to both cope with the outer world and in particular to cope with [laughs] and be with and work with your own mind.
They then could include things like doing some therapy, some psychedelics, some, you know, this and that.
I still, I think, have a foot in that world, as well as perhaps formal forms of mind training of different kinds, whether secular or, or religious, let's say, or contemplative.
So I'd ask you, first question for you is, were there some major turning points for you for the better? And what, when you look back, did they consist of? And maybe might there be some value in dusting off some of the key themes or elements in those turning points and foregrounding them again, you know, returning to your greatest hits, as it were, things that really helped you along the way.
And I'll say for myself, when I look back, there were, I think, five sort of major turning points, and I'm maybe in the sixth one [laughs] right now.
And one of these turning points is, will be kind of a centerpiece for our exploration tonight.
When you look back on your own journey of practice, all the way back even perhaps to being very young and you, by practice I mean started making deliberate efforts in your own mind to both cope with the outer world and in particular to cope with [laughs] and be with and work with your own mind.
They then could include things like doing some therapy, some psychedelics, some, you know, this and that.
I still, I think, have a foot in that world, as well as perhaps formal forms of mind training of different kinds, whether secular or, or religious, let's say, or contemplative.
So I'd ask you, first question for you is, were there some major turning points for you for the better? And what, when you look back, did they consist of? And maybe might there be some value in dusting off some of the key themes or elements in those turning points and foregrounding them again, you know, returning to your greatest hits, as it were, things that really helped you along the way.
And I'll say for myself, when I look back, there were, I think, five sort of major turning points, and I'm maybe in the sixth one [laughs] right now.
And one of these turning points is, will be kind of a centerpiece for our exploration tonight.
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