Your Wise Brain

Practical insights into happiness, love, and wisdom from psychology, neuroscience, and Buddhism

by Rick Hanson, Ph.D.

Lighten Up

By Rick Hanson, Ph.D. on March 5, 2013 in Your Wise Brain

Open to that voice of wisdom in you that’s telling you what you can afford to drop. Open to a sense of freedom and autonomy where you get to decide what you could stop doing, whether others pick it up or not. Read More

Positive Thinking

Submitted by Kelly Lechner on March 26, 2013 - 11:42am.

This article expresses the activities and obligations people have that often bring about stress, anxiety, and overall negative feelings. The article gives ideas about letting go of these negative thoughts and I see it as connecting to positive psychology. The Broaden and Build theory says that happiness makes us think more openly and see more of the world, so in a sense "lightening up" and letting go of things that make us feel anxious or stressed is important. So we can just focus on the things that make us happy and see that life really is great, and all those "obligations" and "tasks" that society may throw at us are not really that important after all. What is important is listening to that inner-voice and following that, just like the article suggests, because that is telling us what we truly want and what will make us happy. :)