Rick Hanson - Resilient

Destination Unlimited with Victor Fuhrman · Jul 5, 2018 · 57m

Aired Wednesday, 4 July 2018, 8:00 PM ET

Rick Hanson – Resilient

Almost every faith on earth has a version of “The Golden Rule”. In essence, it instructs us “to do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” In our hectic and challenging world today, most people practice a variation…”I’ll do unto you and owe myself one.” Why is it so easy to extend love, compassion and caring to others and not do the same for ourselves? What events in our lives programmed our brains to react this way and is there a way to reprogram them to extend to ourselves the same loving kindness we extend to others…