Mindful Meditations with Dr. Rick Hanson

In this guided meditation, I invite you to settle into a deep sense of tranquility, spaciousness, and inner peace. Beginning with gentle awareness of the body and breath, you’ll explore the stillness beneath passing thoughts and feelings, and gradually open to a sense of vastness within your awareness and the world around you. Discover how to rest in the peaceful, spacious qualities of your own nature, infused with love. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free fo...

In this guided meditation, we explore letting go in the body and releasing craving, making room for a deeper sense of peace, contentment, and love. Learn how to soften physical tension, ease anxiety and resentment, and reconnect with your own natural goodness while remaining capable of pursuing your goals and standing up for yourself. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-...

In this guided meditation, you’re invited to settle into your body, quiet your mind, and discover a deep sense of tranquility and stillness beneath the busyness of everyday life. As you allow peacefulness to sink into the places inside that feel stressed or frazzled, you’ll cultivate an inner refuge you can return to whenever you need calm, steadiness, and a sense of solid ground. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://ric...

In this guided meditation, Rick Hanson invites you to steady your attention, quiet your mind, and settle into a deeper sense of wholeness. Through mindful breathing, letting go of striving, and resting in spacious awareness, you’ll explore what it’s like to feel peaceful, content, and unified — just as you are. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start...

This meditation guides you to give yourself the gift of simply being present. Using the breath or another chosen anchor, you are invited to let thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, and everyday concerns move through awareness without needing to fix, resist, or follow them. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set th...

This meditation invites you to settle into your body and the present moment, using the breath as a steady anchor. As thoughts, feelings, and sounds move through awareness, you are encouraged to let them come and go without resistance or getting pulled into them, returning again and again to an embodied sense of ease. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always...

Settle into a sense of calm strength and open-hearted presence, grounded in the safety of this moment. This meditation helps you soften unnecessary guarding, rest in what is strong and steady within you, and open to the world around you with greater peacefulness and ease. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the ton...

Settle into a sense of being already full and whole, resting in the spaciousness of awareness so you can meet whatever comes with greater steadiness, openness, and love. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. If you’d like to explore the talk that followed this meditation, you can list...

In this meditation, we’ll settle into the body, find a steadier ground beneath fear and anxiety, and get a felt sense of the courage, open-heartedness, and basic goodness that are already here inside you. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. If you’d like to explore the talk that followed t...

This meditation invites you to rest in a grounded sense of self, cultivating the inner calm, compassion, and clarity needed to stay connected with others while honoring your own healthy boundaries. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. If you’d like to explore the talk that followed this med...

In this meditation, guest teacher Melvin McLeod and Rick invite you to slow down, settle the mind, and gently notice your experience as it is, cultivating the insight, self-compassion, and inner steadiness that can help ease suffering and support greater well-being. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for ...

In this meditation, I’ll guide you to become grounded in your body, release needless anxiety and striving, and rest in the peaceful sense that what you’re receiving in this moment is already enough. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. If you’d like to explore the talk that followed this me...

In this meditation, I’ll guide you into a grounded, open sense of presence, where you can let go of striving, rest in simply being, and feel that you—and this moment—are already enough. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. If you’d like to explore the talk that followed this meditation, you...

In this gentle meditation, we’ll practice letting go of striving and returning to the simple peace of being. As we settle into the body, the breath, and the heart, we’ll explore the quiet freedom of “arriving… enough”—resting in the present without needing to become anything more. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to se...

This guided meditation moves from grounding in the body and releasing anxiety into opening the heart to kindness, compassion, and love. It invites you to relax effort and rest in the simple experience of breathing, awareness, and the innate goodness and lovingness already within you. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to...

In this meditation, I invited us to settle into the breath and discover the quiet well-being of contentment. Together, we explored what it feels like to let go of striving and rest, if only for a few moments, in the simple fullness of the present experience. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the even...

You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. If you’d like to explore the talk that followed this meditation, you can listen to it here: https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-letting-go-of-fear-and-resting-in-peaceful-confidence/

You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. If you’d like to explore the talk that followed this meditation, you can listen to it here: https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-the-sweet-power-of-kindness-compassion-and-happiness-for-others/

In this meditation, I invite you to set aside the concerns of the day and explore four nourishing states of mind: gladness, rapture, tranquility, and contentment. Together, we’ll discover how simple moments of joy and peacefulness can become lasting inner resources. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for ...

You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. If you’d like to explore the talk that followed this meditation, you can listen to it here: https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-good-news-thats-still-true/

If you’re feeling stressed, caught up in striving, or carrying more than you need to, this meditation offers a chance to simply let go. Together we’ll rest in the enoughness of the present moment, soften the drive to become or achieve, and reconnect with a quiet sense of contentment, openness, and ease. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a ...

This meditation guides you through three stages of calm: warm heartedness, contentment, and peace. It begins by settling into the body and breath, then opens into feelings of kindness and connection, and finally into a quiet sense of being already okay in the present. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone f...

You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. If you’d like to explore the talk that followed this meditation, you can listen to it here: https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-keys-to-personal-and-global-evolution-with-david-sloan-wilson/

You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. If you’d like to explore the talk that followed this meditation, you can listen to it here: https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-how-to-let-go/

You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. If you’d like to explore the talk that followed this meditation, you can listen to it here: https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-how-to-be-calmer-now/

You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. If you’d like to explore the talk that followed this meditation, you can listen to it here: https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-wise-effort-of-letting-go-of-self/

You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. If you’d like to explore the talk that followed this meditation, you can listen to it here: https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-equanimity-inner-freedom-with-a-heart-as-wide-as-the-world/

It’s easy to feel on edge these days—caught in a low hum of anxiety, tension in the body, and a mind that won’t quite settle. In this gentle meditation, I guide you in coming home to yourself—settling into the body, resting in the breath, and gradually releasing layers of uneasiness. As you follow the rhythm of breathing, you’ll explore a deeper place inside that is already steady, already okay, even if just for a moment. Along the way, you’re invited to soften anxiety, connect with a sense o...

If you often feel tense, contracted, or caught in your thoughts, this meditation helps you relax the body, steady the mind, and reconnect with a deeper sense of openness and ease. Over time, it supports a shift into a more spacious, less reactive way of being. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the ev...

When your mind won’t slow down—when you’re stuck in overthinking, bracing for what might go wrong, or feeling like you always need to do more—this meditation helps you step out of that loop and come back to a sense of safety and enoughness right now. Gently settling the body and mind, you’ll practice letting go of control, releasing subtle anxiety, and resting in the simple, steady experience of being—where, even for a few moments, you can feel that you’re already okay. You’re welcome to join...

A gentle meditation for settling into the present moment, releasing effort and pressure, and resting in a natural sense of open, spacious awareness that is already here within you. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. If you’d like to explore the talk that followed this meditation, you can ...

A gentle, brain-based meditation for cultivating steady presence—helping you stay grounded in awareness, anchored in the breath and heart, and less carried away by passing thoughts and feelings. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. If you’d like to explore the talk that followed this medita...

When the mind is restless, leaning into the future or caught in subtle striving, it can feel like something is always missing. In this meditation, we gently come home to the breath and the body, letting go of effort, settling into a growing sense of enough-ness, and discovering a peaceful, spacious way of simply being—right here, already complete. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-...

In this meditation, you’re invited to gently settle your attention into feelings of peace and open-heartedness. As the mind grows more concentrated, these qualities can gradually expand, pervading the body and filling awareness with a quiet sense of ease. Resting in this open, peaceful presence, you allow calm and warmth to deepen naturally. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-d...

A gentle meditation inviting you to rest in the heart, soften into trust, and practice letting go into the natural flow of experience. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. If you’d like to explore the talk that followed this meditation, you can listen to it here: https://rickhanson.com/talk...

When life pulls you in many directions, it’s easy to stay tense or distracted, never quite at ease in your own being. This meditation invites you to settle where you are, release what’s not needed, and rest your attention on something steady—like the breath, a kind feeling, or simple presence itself. As you soften and widen awareness, the sense of separateness begins to dissolve, revealing a peaceful wholeness where all parts of you—and the world around you—move together in harmony. You’re we...

This meditation is a journey from the "trance of knowing"—that tight, anxious habit of trying to figure everything out—into the liberating space of presence. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. If you’d like to explore the talk that followed this meditation, you can listen to it here: http...

When you’ve been bracing against stress, holding tension in your body, or feeling like you always have to stay on guard, it can be hard to truly relax or feel safe inside yourself. This meditation helps you gently lower your defenses by recognizing that you’re okay in this moment, softening the body, and allowing the mind to settle into a sense of openness and ease. As you rest in spacious awareness, you may discover a quiet peacefulness—and even a natural sense of warmth and lovingness—that ...

Many of us move through our days with a background sense of tension—bracing against uncertainty, aging, illness, or what might be coming next. This guided meditation offers a chance to pause that effort. You’re invited to settle into stillness, sense the quiet beneath mental activity, and recognize moments of peace and contentment that are already present. As the mind softens, identity can gently loosen—from being caught in worries and stories to resting as spaciousness, stillness, and simple...

When you’re feeling triggered, reactive, or on edge, this guided meditation helps you settle the nervous system and come back to a sense of basic okay-ness. We ground in the body, soothe the “soft animal” within, and gently quiet mental chatter through breath and sensation. From there, we use awareness to open to the heart, allowing kindness and calm to replace bracing and defensiveness—so experiences can flow through without overwhelming you. You’re welcome to join me live each week for thes...

A gentle meditation to soften the edges of the self and rest in a sense of shared being. You’re invited to let go of differences, feel yourself being breathed by life, and settle into a quiet, spacious belonging. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. If you’d like to explore the talk that fo...

This gentle, step-by-step meditation invites you to “come home” to yourself through mindful breathing and whole-body awareness. Guided by the Buddha’s original teachings—adapted with care and flexibility—it helps you settle the body, quiet the mind, and open into a deep sense of calm, presence, and peaceful joy, using the breath or any anchor that feels safe and supportive for you. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://ri...

A gentle, spacious meditation for those moments when striving gets exhausting. Together we explore who you are when you’re not going anywhere or trying to fix anything—resting in open-hearted presence, a sense of vastness, and the simple relief of coming home to being, with plenty of quiet to let the experience deepen. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We alwa...

It's normal to feel overwhelmed by the chaos of modern life, and it's hard to have a steady mind when we're distracted, stressed, rattled, or ruminating about the things we feel threatened about or resentful of. This meditation invites you to settle the body, quiet the mind, and rest in a peaceful, contented awareness—stable like a mountain and open like the sky. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednes...

This meditation invites you to settle into a comfortable, kind presence with your body and breath, easing around tension and quieting inner speech so you can rest in simple, open awareness. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. If you’d like to explore the talk that followed this medit...

This meditation is an invitation to come home — to step out of busyness, worry, and striving, and rest in the present moment. Through open awareness, you’ll soften around thoughts and sensations, widen attention, and settle into a deep sense of ease, spaciousness, and simply being, with nothing to fix or manage. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always star...

When your mind feels busy, self-critical, or weighed down by worry, pain, or unrealistic expectations, it can help to settle the nervous system and come home to your body – which this meditation is designed to do. Through gentle awareness and self-compassion, you’re invited to lay down inner pressure and reconnect with a felt sense of steadiness, kindness, and your own innate goodness. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https:...

When life feels unsteady — when anxiety pulls you into the future, when you feel unsupported, or when you’re carrying everything on your own shoulders — it becomes hard to recognize the real stability that’s already here for you. This meditation gently helps you shift out of worry and into the lived, felt experience of being supported: by your breath, your body, the objects around you, and the wider natural world. Through simple awareness, soft thoughts, and heartfelt appreciation, you learn ...

If you’ve been feeling tense, fearful, or disconnected from yourself, this practice guides you back into a grounded, calm, openhearted state, so you can rest in your own being with less anxiety and more peace. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. If you’d like to explore the talk that follo...

If you often feel tense, unsettled, or caught in old patterns of fear, this practice helps you come home to your body, soften anxiety at its roots, and reconnect with your natural steadiness and kindness. We’ll move gently through grounding, releasing fear, and opening the heart so you can rest more fully in calm presence. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We ...

In this heart-centered meditation, I gently guide you to settle into your body, find your place, and rest in the simple rhythm of your breath. As attention gathers in the chest, you explore a steady concentration on breathing in the heart area—then gradually infuse it with warm-heartedness, kindness, and loving presence. The practice invites you to soften, receive the breath rather than chase it, and let a natural sweetness spread through awareness as you rest in a concentrated, heart-based l...

When the mind won’t settle — when thoughts spin, tension lingers, or self-criticism keeps you restless — it’s hard to find any real peace. This meditation invites you to gently let go of everything that isn’t calm, open, and present, and to rest more and more fully in the simplicity of peaceful awareness itself. Over time, the noise quiets, and what remains is a steady, grounded presence you can return to anytime. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for every...

When life feels busy or your mind won’t settle, it’s easy to lose touch with the simple goodness already inside you. This guided meditation helps you release tension, rest in calm awareness, and open your heart with kindness and compassion. Over time, it’s a gentle way to come home to yourself — peaceful, present, and already enough. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-h...

A lot of life - and meditation - involves being patient. In this guided meditation, we focus on allowing thoughts and events to come and go without grasping or clinging... but just being, patiently. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. If you’d like to explore the talk that followed this me...

To help ease and release anxiety, we can focus on feeling undisturbed, undefended, and uncontracted in the moment — which is what this guided meditation will help you to do. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. If you’d like to explore the talk that followed this meditation, you can listen ...

In this meditation, we rest in the simple miracle of breathing — feeling supported by the body, the air, and the many forces that sustain life. As awareness moves through the belly, diaphragm, and heart, we open to steadiness, peace, and compassion. Gradually, this presence expands into the whole body — and into a felt sense of our own basic goodness and higher purpose. A gentle practice for returning home to yourself, one breath at a time. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these m...

In today’s world, our minds race ahead while our bodies strain under stress, anxiety, and worry. This meditation is about coming home—finding relief from rumination, softening defendedness in the body, and resting in the deep reassurance that, right now, you are basically all right. Even with pain, sadness, or uncertainty, you can return to a simple, peaceful sense of being—your true home in the present. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by ...

In this meditation, I guide you to settle into awareness of the body and breath, nurturing spaciousness and warm-hearted presence as a foundation for later exploring what to do when feeling triggered. I also encourage you to let go of tension and striving, so you can rest in the present moment and develop qualities that will support you when challenges arise. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-...

This meditation will help you steady the mind like a candle in a windless place—calm, present, and undisturbed. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. If you’d like to explore the talk that followed this meditation, you can listen to it here: https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-just-do-the...

Find a calm center within. In this guided meditation, explore peace, vastness, and stillness—not as ideas, but as living qualities you can rest in. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. If you’d like to explore the talk that followed this meditation, you can listen to it here: https://rickha...

So often we meditate to “get” somewhere — to reach a better state of mind. But in this guided meditation, you’ll simply rest in what’s already here: your natural, undisturbed well-being. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. If you’d like to explore the talk that followed this meditation, yo...

When life feels scattered or tense, it’s powerful to return to simple grounding and heartfelt presence. In this meditation, you’ll settle into your body, release unnecessary anxiety, and open to calm strength and a sense of being safe in the here and now. From this steady foundation, you’ll soften into feelings of warmth, caring, and being cared for—allowing them to ripple through you and sink in deeply. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by s...

When your mind is racing or your body feels tense, it’s a sign your nervous system needs a reset. In this meditation, we’ll explore how simple awareness and gentle letting go can ease stress, calm your body, and help you return to a more balanced, peaceful state. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the...

When life feels uncertain and your body is holding onto tension, it’s easy to get swept up in worry and lose touch with any real sense of calm. In this meditation, I’ll guide you toward settling into your body, easing out of unnecessary anxiety, and finding a deep, reassuring sense that—at least in this moment—you’re basically all right. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-ri...

When your mind is scattered, your heart feels heavy, or you’re just worn down by it all—this meditation offers a way to come back to yourself. Through the breath and body, we’ll gently settle into presence, soften the inner pressure, and rest in the deep refuge of your own loving heart. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation...

When life feels overwhelming or you’re caught in tension, this meditation helps you come back to a sense of safety and ease in your body. We’ll gently explore how to settle your mind, soften around pain or anxiety, and open the heart—without forcing anything or needing to fix it. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set...

In this guided meditation, we explore the practice of appreciating what’s enjoyable, meaningful, or simply good in the moment. Let yourself settle, open, and receive. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. If you’d like to explore the talk that followed this meditation, you can listen to it h...

In this short guided meditation, I’ll help you settle into a sense of ease and openness—calm and spacious, yet deeply present. Over time, this natural resting state becomes more familiar and accessible, even in the middle of a busy or challenging day. I invite you to slow down, come home to yourself, and let well-being grow from the inside out. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-wit...

When your mind is busy, your heart is tired, and you feel like you're chasing something you can’t quite catch—this meditation is a place to rest. We’ll gently settle into the present moment, not with pressure or perfection, but with a soft and kind intention. You’ll be invited to experience what it’s like to simply be: not fixing, not striving, not becoming—just resting in the enoughness of now. There’s real nourishment in this. A quiet, spacious presence. A warm heart. And a little more pe...

In this guided meditation, we gently settle the body, quiet the mind, and rest in simple being. As we let go of striving and doing, we explore what it's like to be at peace—just as we are. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. If you’d like to explore the talk that followed this meditation, ...

When life feels rushed, scattered, or overwhelming, this meditation helps you come home to yourself—grounded, open, and supported by the present moment. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/. We always start with a guided meditation to set the tone for the evening. If you’d like to explore the talk that followed this meditation, you can listen to it here: https://r...

When life feels overwhelming, your mind scattered, and peace out of reach, it's easy to get swept up in anxiety or striving. In this gentle meditation, I guide you to rest in the present moment—settling into a sense of calm, wholeness, and simple contentment. It’s a chance to step off the treadmill and come home to yourself, just as you are. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-d...

This is a 3-step meditation that follows the natural structure of our nervous system—moving from a grounded sense of safety, to heartfelt connection, and finally to a deep feeling of contentment. These are the basic needs of all human beings, and by taking care of them inside yourself, you start to feel more whole, more present, and more able to handle life—without being so rattled by it. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free for everyone — by signing up at htt...

Sometimes life wears us down — we get stressed, reactive, disconnected from our own hearts. In this week's meditation, I’ll guide you in coming back to a place of simple kindness, stable presence, and your own natural goodness. If you ever feel overwhelmed, guarded, or just tired of carrying so much, this practice can help you find your footing again — and open your heart in a way that’s strong, steady, and deeply healing. You’re welcome to join me live each week for these meditations — free...