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Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness
These days it’s hard to count on the world outside. So, it’s vital to grow strengths inside like grit, gratitude, and compassion – the key to resilience, and to lasting well-being in a changing world.
True resilience is much more than enduring terrible conditions. We need resilience every day to raise a family, work at a job, cope with stress, deal with health problems, navigate issues with others, heal from old pain, and simply keep on going.
With his trademark blend of neuroscience, mindfulness, and positive psychology, New York Times best-selling author Dr. Rick Hanson shows you how to develop 12 vital inner strengths hardwired into your own nervous system. Then no matter what life throws at you, you’ll be able to feel less stressed, pursue opportunities with confidence, and stay calm and centered in the face of adversity.
This practical guide is full of concrete suggestions, experiential practices, personal examples, and insights into the brain. It includes effective ways to interact with others and to repair and deepen important relationships.
Warm, encouraging, and down-to-earth, Dr. Hanson’s step-by-step approach is grounded in the science of positive neuroplasticity. He explains how to overcome the brain’s negativity bias, release painful thoughts and feelings, and replace them with self-compassion, self-worth, joy, and inner peace.
Bill Bergmann –
A Read Compassionate, Warm and Wise
“Resilient” is an exceptional book. It stands out as a book that is well-organized, well-written, useful, warm and wise.I initially wrote a “one-star” review of “Resilient” because I found my computer infected with malware after I visited a site mentioned at the end of the book. When I wrote that review, I offered to make another review should the issue I encountered be acknowledged. The authors have responded and I accept their assurances that, at the least, they have paid attention to the potential problem and may have it completely resolved. I expressed myself much more harshly than I really intended. I apologize to the Hansons and to the readers of the first review for that excess.Given that I committed to re-review the book in my first review, I felt a challenge to write a review that was an accurate review and not an apology. I offer this. I generally don’t experience books for which I want to write “five star” reviews. “Resilient” deserves five stars. In the context of making my life more resilient against all the pains, challenges and opportunities I face in life, “Resilient”, while not resilience itself, is certainly an excellent signpost pointing to where I might find a more resilient life. I expect that it will take me some time to fully appreciate how much I will be getting out of this book. “Resilient” discusses twelve qualities of being that one might cultivate in order to a have a more resilient life. I have not yet read each section closely, but in the several sections on which I have focused I have found compassionate concern for myself as the reader, insights that have quickly enriched my life, and suggestions for feeling, thinking and acting that I can actually use. I am glad for reading “Resilient”, and I look forward to expending the effort to bring what it shares into my life. To quote Dr. Hanson from the book, “If you know your course is good, even if it is not immediately rewarding, stay with it.” This is a book offering a course with which to stay. I plan on sharing this book with my friends and family, and I would encourage other readers to come along. To Rick and Forrest Hanson, thank you.
M. BearWoman –
Here is the “Resilience Hack,” in its most streamlined form. Get ready for Vitamins A, B, & C; X, Y, & Z! (plus 6 more)
Unfortunately, I am not able to give a thorough review of this fantastic book at this time. In order to get my review in under the wire, I must post an incomplete response. That said, I cannot recommend this book, or the FoundationsOfWellBeing (dot com) (FWB) online training program (upon which it is based) more highly than 5 stars. Else I would have rated it 10+ of 10. Having participated in the 2017 cohort of FWB (after achieving amazing gains working with Dr. Hanson’s “Hardwiring Happiness” (HH) book, I was eagerly awaiting the release of this book.Wow! What a knock-out, Hanson team! Way to go! Every sentence is packed full of multi-layered, multi-dimensional articulation of extremely complex and wide-ranging subjects, rendered down into very accessible, eminently practical, and down-to-earth instantly use-able information and exercises. I trust this is as true for the portions I have not yet read as it is for the ones I have, given Dr. Hanson’s proven integrity and past masterworks. Kudos as well to Dr. Hanson (dad) for “walking his talk” by assisting the next generation to come into their own by co-authoring with his son, Forrest. And congratulations to Forrest for coming more fully into his own adult power in the world, clearly contributing extensively to this shared work.I wish I had the time and space to undertake a thorough and exhaustive review, for the edification of and use by other potential readers. However, I am too busy reading further and continuing to put into practice all I have learned from Hanson so far. For me personally, my use of HH & FWB has been one of two crucial pivotal elements that aided me in shifting my life from one of extended untenable suffering to one of vibrant aliveness with a zest for meeting the challenges that any life might entail. The first changes come within–in terms of quality of (lived-) life experience. From that basis, the slower-to-change areas of physical and worldly endeavor have in many ways taken a back seat for me. Though in other ways I now view them through a lens with a much clearer perspective, I believe. One of the many paradoxes (in rational logic terms) that seem to be staples in the growth and transformation business (the “inner work”).My bottom line is: if you are hungry to up your Resilience game in the most efficient, effective, and efficacious way possible, you cannot go wrong by using this book as your entree. Bon appétit!
Beth –
Another WONDERFUL contribution!
I have taken many of Dr. Hansonâs outstanding courses and read many of his other ground-breaking books, and this book is another wonderful contribution to the field of psychology! In Resilience, Rick Hanson, with his son Forrest, teach readers how to cultivate 12 foundations for well-being that can help us to weather the challenges in our lives and grow the inner resources to flourish. Providing readers with an understanding of the neuroscience of learning and change, as well as sharing personal stories and short practices that help âwire inâ the skills being taught, Rick shows us how day by day we can develop lasting traits such as grit, motivation, compassion and courage. Rickâs writing is both warm and brilliant, and this book offers a must have guide for how we can all lead more rich and fulfilling lives.
Barbara S. –
Good information, mediocre writing
There is much to be gained from the information in this book. The writing, however, is at times simplistic enough for a fifth-grader, and at other times so confusing that it required re-reading and sometimes reading yet a third time. I almost gave up, but it seemed to turn around somewhere around page 182; almost as though a new author took over. Iâm glad that I finished it.
Clare P –
Like a handbook on how to manage yourself — practical, useful, and thought-provoking!
If you’re stuck somewhere in life or having difficulty with something that just doesn’t have to be that hard, this book will show you the way forward. Despite being a firm believer in reading a book from its beginning through to its end when I tried to read this book in that way I found it tedious and boring. Using it more as a handbook or manual, however I find it a remarkable and valuable source of inspiration and direction. Try it!
Mehnaz Amjad –
Having read hundreds of books on this topic and many more on self development,this stands apart for the wonderful narration laced with so much compassion that seeps through every word you read.Resiliency is a very wide topic,but this book offers it in a systematic way building it all up to with themes of forgiveness bringing in a beautiful closure to the entire work . A must have for a Resilient coach like me, I gifted this to myself and was more pleased with my gift that I intend to visit more often in future
John –
Lots of good advice and exercices.I feel happier and more often at peace in my daily life.I’m very impressed that it can have a powerful impact on your life and who you are very quickly.
rafaela azevedo –
Obrigada!
Cliente Kindle –
Primoroso! Fundamental. AtualÃssimo e inovador.
Femme –
Como psicóloga puedo decir que este es El mejor libro de resiliencia que he leÃdo súper practico. 100% recomendable