• Find posture, check in with your body, and take several deep, calming breaths.
• Be intentional about your motivation and find a place in us to understand that practices to cultivate our own wellbeing can also help others.
• This is a radical act of generosity
• Bring into your mind a situation that has been challenging in some way in the recent past - whether work, family, etc.. not too difficult, but something challenging. Identify what it is.
• Reflect on your own beliefs and expectations about that situation. What beliefs and expectations are we bringing to that situation?
• Envision how things might be different if we came to the situation with a different set of beliefs and expectations.
• Would it be different with the different beliefs and expectations?
• End practice by dedicating whatever insight we may have gleaned to the benefit of others.

Listen to the Full Episode - S1: E3 Cultivating a Healthy Mind: The Neuroscience of Awareness, Connection, Insight, & Purpose with Dr. Richie Davidson. Here Dr. Davidson guides you in a practice to gain insight into your life.

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About Dr. Pam King

Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy. Follow her @drpamking.

About With & For

• Host: Pam King
• Senior Director and Producer: Jill Westbrook
• Operations Manager: Lauren Kim
• Social Media Graphic Designer: Wren Juergensen
• Consulting Producer: Evan Rosa

Special thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.