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How to Be Calmer . . . Now
May 20, 2026
34m 38s
The Wise Effort of Letting Go of Self
May 13, 2026
30m 18s
Equanimity: Inner Freedom with a Heart as Wide as the World
May 6, 2026
35m 08s
Cultivating a Mind Without Fear
Apr 29, 2026
33m 44s
Abiding as Awareness, Lovingness, Vastness
Apr 22, 2026
34m 38s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 5/20/26 | 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-how-to-be-calmer-now/ | 34m 38s | ||||||
| 5/13/26 | 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-the-wise-effort-of-letting-go-of-self/ | 30m 18s | ||||||
| 5/6/26 | Equanimity: Inner Freedom with a Heart as Wide as the World | 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/ | 35m 08s | ||||||
| 4/29/26 | Cultivating a Mind Without Fear | 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... | 33m 44s | ||||||
| 4/22/26 | Abiding as Awareness, Lovingness, Vastness | 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... | 34m 38s | ||||||
| 4/15/26 | Enjoying Being, Releasing Becoming | 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... | 33m 15s | ||||||
| 4/8/26 | Stabilizing Open Presence | 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 ... | 34m 33s | ||||||
| 4/1/26 | 5 Ways to Steady the Mind | 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... | 32m 53s | ||||||
| 3/25/26 | In the Enoughness of the Present | 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-... | 33m 56s | ||||||
| 3/18/26 | Absorption into Tranquility | 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... | 33m 52s | ||||||
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| 3/11/26 | Resting in the Heart while Letting Go | 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... | 35m 15s | ||||||
| 3/4/26 | You Are Whole and Complete, and There Is Nothing to Add | 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... | 34m 14s | ||||||
| 2/25/26 | What Matters, and What Doesn’t | 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... | 34m 32s | ||||||
| 2/18/26 | Steadying Your Mind and Quieting It | 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 ... | 34m 30s | ||||||
| 2/11/26 | Sensing into Stillness | 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... | 33m 42s | ||||||
| 2/4/26 | Feeling Grounded, Peaceful, and Openhearted | 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... | 33m 12s | ||||||
| 1/28/26 | In the Quiet That Opens into Everything | 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... | 34m 00s | ||||||
| 1/21/26 | Mindfulness of Breathing – the Buddha’s Foundation Instructions | 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... | 34m 00s | ||||||
| 1/14/26 | Simply Being | 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... | 33m 04s | ||||||
| 1/7/26 | Resting in Stable Presence | 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... | 29m 33s | ||||||
| 12/31/25 | Resting in Deep Peace | 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... | 33m 43s | ||||||
| 12/24/25 | Resting in Open Awareness | 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... | 33m 32s | ||||||
| 12/17/25 | Resting in the Sense of Your Innate Goodness | 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:... | 33m 03s | ||||||
| 12/10/25 | Feeling Already Supported | 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 ... | 33m 29s | ||||||
| 12/3/25 | 4 Steps to Inner Peace | 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... | 34m 25s | ||||||
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