Rick Hanson, PhD, is a psychologist, senior fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and New York Times bestselling author. His books include Neurodharma, Resilient, Hardwiring Happiness, Just One Thing, Buddha’s Brain, and Mother Nurture. He has released an audio series called The Enlightened Brain and is the creator of the Just One Thing Card Deck.

Rick is the founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, he has been an invited speaker at Google, NASA, Oxford, and Harvard, and taught in meditation centers worldwide. He has several online offerings—including the Neurodharma experiential program—and more than 150,000 people receive his free weekly newsletter. He and his wife live in Northern California and have two adult children.
Tell the truth about your suffering. — Rick Hanson, PhD
Rick joined us recently to share some insights into the science of silence, particularly in light of his work as a psychologist and practicing Buddhist.

Come home to yourself, to find your footing, over the course of a single breath. We know what that's like... What's it like to be me? And then in the middle of all that, finding what feels like refuge. Stabilizing, protective, refueling, renewing, refuge. — Rick Hanson, PhD
Some of the resources and authors mentioned in this episode:

Rick Hanson, Neurodharma
Rick Hanson & Forrest Hanson, Resilient
Rick Hanson, Hardwiring Happiness
Rick Hanson, Just One Thing
Rick Hanson & Richard Mendius, Buddha’s Brain
Rick Hanson, Jan Hanson & Ricki Pollycove, Mother Nurture
Rick Hanson, The Enlightened Brain
Rick Hanson, Just One Thing Card Deck
Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
The Buddha, Teachings of the Compassionate Buddha
Barack Obama, The Promised Land
Peggy Noonan, The Time of Our Lives
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Sylvia Boorstein, It's Easier Than You Think
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems
Chana Shapiro, The Rabbi's In Trouble
Simon & Garfunkel, "The Sound of Silence" from Wednesday Morning, 3 AM
Patanjali, The Yoga Sutras

Find a spiritual practice that really feels good... that you're drawn to do it... that it feels good for the minute, or five minutes, or forty minutes that you do it; it's calming, it's restorative, it feels like home, and you like it. It adds value to you and it it's good for you. — Rick Hanson, PhD
Episode 114 : Silence, Buddhism, and the Brain: A Conversation with Rick Hanson
Hosted by: Carl McColman
With: Cassiday Hall and Kevin Johnson
Guest: Dr. Rick Hanson
Date Recorded: May 18, 2020