7 Steps to the Highest Happiness

Neurodharma

A practical seven-step plan that reveals the path to transcendence, wisdom and true happiness from bestselling author and psychologist Rick Hanson.

This deeply researched and compassionate guide offers an easy-to-follow road map for creating day-to-day inner peace in today's increasingly complex world

Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

A brilliant and unprecedented offering, Neurodharma will guide you to the upper reaches of your potential as a human being

Rick Hanson has a rare ability to inspire us to our fullest potential while giving us practical, actionable tools for our everyday lives

Marie Forleo, author of Everything is Figureoutable

Rick Hanson's seven steps of awakening are a remarkable presentation of how the brain, mindfulness, and meditation are interconnected

Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness

Accessible and gentle, there is deep wisdom here from which all may benefit

With astonishing clarity, Dr Hanson shows us how to calm and heal our mind and re-route it onto the open highway of happiness

Dr Rick Hanson is a neuropsychologist whose books include the highly acclaimed Buddha’s Brain and Just One Thing. Founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, and Affiliate of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, he’s taught at leading universities, and in meditation centres worldwide. He is a frequent keynote speaker, and his work has been widely featured in the media, including the BBC, NPR, FoxBusiness, and O Magazine. See www.RickHanson.net for more information.

‘Accessible and gentle, there is deep wisdom here from which all may benefit’ Professor Mark Williams, bestselling author of Mindfulness 
 
'Astonishing' Ruby Wax 
 
Explore the new neuroscience of awakening and develop lasting inner peace in a changing world 
 
In Neurodharma, leading psychologist Rick Hanson explores the heights of human potential – and how to become as wise and strong, happy and loving, as any person can ever be. Combining new science and ancient wisdom, he shows how to develop unshakeable presence of mind, deep contentment, liberating insight and a courageous heart. 
 
With practical suggestions, guided meditations and warm encouragement, he offers an inspiring vision of who we 
can be – and an effective path for embodying this wonderful possibility. 
 
'A brilliant and unprecedented offering' Deepak Chopra 
 
'Rick Hanson has a rare ability to inspire us to our fullest potential while giving us practical, actionable tools for our everyday lives' Marie Forleo, author of Everything is Figureoutable

12 Tools for transforming everyday experiences into lasting happiness

Resilient

The New York Times bestselling author, and respected psychologist, Rick Hanson, offers a scientifically grounded programme for developing the 12 fundamental inner strengths that will help you thrive, no matter what life throws at you.

Prof Mark Williams, author of Mindfulness

One of the world’s leading authorities on mind training

Prof Paul Gilbert, author of The Compassionate Mind

Brilliant at making complex scientific information simple

I’m a huge fan of Rick Hanson’s writings and find the twelve inner strengths at the core of his new book a compelling guide to building resilience into your life. I especially loved the section on the psychology of grit – a much underrated skill in the art of living!

Roman Krznaric, Author of Empathy and Carpe Diem Regained

Clear, accessible and wise, this book sums up the teachings that have been Rick Hanson’s lifetime's work on well-being: how to be a better friend to yourself in a way that is truly unselfish, mindfully cherishing your gifts rather than being your own worst critic…life changing…

Smart and well-written, Resilient provides a clear blueprint for sustaining happiness by building a reservoir of resilience. With his trademark deep synthesis of multiple disciplines, Rick Hanson provides a practical guidebook for anyone living in complicated and challenging times, which means this book couldn't come at a better time.

Shawn Achor author of The Happiness Advantage and Big Potential

In the jungle of books on mindfulness and neuroscience, Rick Hanson hacks a comprehensive and enlightening path through, while giving insight on how to understand your wild and woolly mind. And if that wasn't enough, he gives us tools to achieve peace and happiness. What more could you ask for?

Ruby Wax, O.B.E. author of How to Be Human: The Manual

Tremendously practical neuroscience. Resilient is wise and helpful: skill building for the brain, medicine for the heart, and guidance for living a beautiful and enjoyable life.

Jack Kornfield, author of A Path With Heart

Rick Hanson guides us in how to cultivate well-being through learning to hold in mind what is helpful, enjoyable, and promotes flourishing. Here is a book of immense wisdom and practicality. Written in a clear, inviting, and friendly style, it can help all of us to cultivate a mind that is more able to induce happiness for ourselves and others.

Paul Gilbert. O.B.E. Founder of Compassion Focused Therapy, author of The Compassionate Mind

Your key to lasting happiness, self-love and inner peace 
 
'A master of his craft' - Prof Mark Williams, bestselling author of Mindfulness: a practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world 
 
Rick Hanson, author of the New York Times bestselling Hardwiring Happiness, is known for his trademark blend of neuroscience, positive psychology and contemplative practices. In Resilient, he explains how to build the very foundations of well-being by harnessing the power of positive experiences to build an unshakeable core. 
 
Dr. Hanson poses that anyone can build up resilience, the key to a positive mindset, unshakeable sense of self and the ability to get back up again and withstand anything life throws your way. He has distilled 40 years of clinical work and teaching into 12 practical, highly effective tools to help you build your resilience. Working with these tools allows you to enter a positive feedback cycle, which creates a sense of well-being, which in turn establishes resilience, and ultimately powers itself to strengthen you. 
 
Developed from his incredibly popular online course called The Foundations of Well-Being, here is the groundwork you need to meet any challenge in life head on and to live with an open heart.

The Practical Science of Reshaping Your Brain—and Your Life

Hardwiring Happiness

How to reshape your brain and your life

A revolutionary guide to finding happiness through the very latest neuroscience and contemplative techniques.

'A book to savour, to practise, and take to heart' Professor Mark Williams 
 
'As clear and inspired as it gets' Ruby Wax 
 
Four steps to counterbalance your brain's negativity bias and learn to hardwire happiness in only a few minutes each day. 
 
Recent scientific breakthroughs have revealed that what we think and feel changes the brain. Dr Rick Hanson’s Hardwiring Happiness is the first book to show how to transform the simple positive experiences of daily life into neural structures that promote lasting health, contentment, love and inner peace. 
 
 To keep our ancestors alive, our brain evolved a ‘negativity bias’, which lets positive experiences flow through it like water through a sieve. Yet positive experiences are the building blocks needed for health, happiness and fulfilling relationships. Drawing on neuroscience and the contemplative traditions, Hardwiring Happiness shows how to overcome that negativity bias and get those good experiences into the brain where it can use them, providing the tools we need to heal old wounds, develop our inner resources and, ultimately, transform our lives.

Rick Hanson

Simple Practices for Solving Conflicts, Building Connection and Fostering Love

'A nourishing, useful, and timely book' - Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk To Someone 
 
Relationships are a cornerstone of happiness and key to living a full life. But relationships are not given, they are made. In his breakout new book, New York Times bestselling author Rick Hanson offers the fundamental tools and skills to foster happy, lasting and fulfilling relationships in all areas of life. 
 
Making Great Relationships offers 50 simple practices that we can all easily add in to our everyday life. Bringing together ground-breaking research, Hanson reveals that relationships are not fixed entities but instead each of us has the power to make our relationships every single day with our thoughts and words. This empowering book is an essential guide to making your relationships great.

Rick Hanson

Books by Rick Hanson

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