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Dr. Rick Hanson's Book: Hardwiring Happiness

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Dr. Rick Hanson is a very well-known psychologist, and he has written many great essays and four amazing books.  Dr. Rick Hanson started his writing because he has a passion for helping others to incorporate important strategies into their personal development plans. The fourth and the most recent book that Dr. Rick Hanson has published is called Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm and Confidence. This is an excellent read and it really does touch on how to bring more happiness into your life.

What is the basis of the book, Hardwiring Happiness?

Dr. Rick Hanson had very direct intents when he wrote the book, Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm and Confidence. Basically, this book talks about an easy-to-use method for bringing love, happiness, peace and confidence into your everyday life. There are four steps to this method and they all work to build your brain’s strengths. The steps to this method also help you to rid negative thinking from your mind, helping you to be more content with your life, and giving you more power over your mind. With just minutes of practice a day you can change the way you think and be calmer and happier too.

What does the title of this book mean to Dr. Rick Hanson?

When Dr. Rick Hanson worked on his personal development plan he wanted a way to communicate with others about how to bring happiness into their lives. He has done this extremely well through his writing of Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm and Confidence. He believes that the way that someone is feeling is really based on what is going on in their brain. In this book he says that the better and more positive things you bring into your brain, the more positive and creative your life will be.
In this book, Dr. Rick Hanson basically explains how you can hardwire happiness into your brain. This is done by using the personal strengths that you have helped you to develop through various positive life experiences. He explains that making positive changes is more difficult than making negative ones, but it can be done through consistent personal development processes. Another meaning of the title of this book is that to find a solution to a problem, there are the four steps of healing for bringing positivity into your life.

What are the four steps of healing that Dr. Rick Hanson discuss in Hardwiring Happiness?

What does your personal development plan consist of? Does it consist of bringing happiness into your life? If so, reading and learning more about Dr. Rick Hanson’s book, Hardwiring Happiness can really help you to accomplish this. In this book he wrote, he has created four steps of healing that you can use to bring positivity into your life. These four steps include remembering an experience that is positive, enriching that experience, absorbing that experience and linking that positive experience to negative thoughts so that the positive experience can outweigh the negative thoughts.

What can you find in Dr. Rick Hanson’s book, Hardwiring Happiness?

In Dr. Rick Hanson’s book, Hardwiring Happiness, you will find more than just the four steps of healing in order to bring positivity into your life. This book is an all-around discussion guide for taking the good into your life. It has many guided practices in it that show you how to use every day experiences and make them last and to make them bring peace into your life as well. This book also uses these guided practices to help you improve your strengths as well.

Dr. Rick Hanson is an excellent author who has written many great books. Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm and Confidence is a top seller. It goes deep into the reality of how your brain really does control how you feel. However, you are in control as well. Dr. Rick Hanson believes that the better and the more positive things you bring into your brain, the more happiness and contentment you can have in your life. Sounds like something to add to your personal development plan today, right?

- Cara Havens

References:

http://www.rickhanson.net/hardwiring-happiness/faq/

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17288646-hardwiring-happiness

https://www.rickhanson.net/writings/books/hardwiring-happiness/

http://publicradiotulsa.org/post/new-brain-science-contentment-calm-and-confidence

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