{"id":570,"date":"2014-07-04T04:05:10","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T11:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rickhanson.net\/?p=16239"},"modified":"2014-07-04T04:05:10","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T11:05:10","slug":"from-idea-to-embodied-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/justonething\/2014\/07\/from-idea-to-embodied-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"From Idea to Embodied Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>This practice \u2013 <i>From Idea to Embodied Experience<\/i>\u2013 from page 92 in my book \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rickhanson.net\/books\/hardwiring-happiness\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><i>Hardwiring Happiness<\/i><\/a> \u2013 helps <i>thoughts<\/i> about a good fact become good <i>feelings<\/i>, <i>sensations, desires <\/i>and <i>actions<\/i> related to it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be aware of your body as well as the good fact.<\/li>\n<li>Soften and open your mind and body, with a sense of receiving the fact.<\/li>\n<li>Think about aspects of the good fact that naturally encourage positive emotions, sensations, desires and actions.<\/li>\n<li>Be kind toward yourself\u2014like an inner voice saying, \u201cGo ahead, this is real, it\u2019s true, it\u2019s all right to feel good about it.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Imagine that this good fact is in the life of a friend. What experience would you wish for him or her? Could you wish this same experience for yourself?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can deepen your practice with this and other exercises with the <i>Hardwiring Happiness <\/i>reading guide \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rickhanson.net\/books\/reading-guides#Hardwiring-Happiness\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.rickhanson.net\/books\/reading-guides#Hardwiring-Happiness<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rickhanson.net\/idea-embodied-experience\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">From Idea to Embodied Experience<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rickhanson.net\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Rick Hanson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/rickhanson\/blog?a=qDxBKwlL6XE:OEym9_dwo9g:yIl2AUoC8zA\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/rickhanson\/blog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/rickhanson\/blog?a=qDxBKwlL6XE:OEym9_dwo9g:qj6IDK7rITs\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/rickhanson\/blog?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/rickhanson\/blog?a=qDxBKwlL6XE:OEym9_dwo9g:V_sGLiPBpWU\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/rickhanson\/blog?i=qDxBKwlL6XE:OEym9_dwo9g:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/rickhanson\/blog?a=qDxBKwlL6XE:OEym9_dwo9g:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/rickhanson\/blog?i=qDxBKwlL6XE:OEym9_dwo9g:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/rickhanson\/blog\/~4\/qDxBKwlL6XE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This practice &ndash; From Idea to Embodied Experience&ndash; from page 92 in my book &ndash; Hardwiring Happiness &ndash; helps thoughts about a good fact become good feelings, sensations, desires and actions related to it: Be aware of your body as well as the good fact. Soften and open your mind and body, with a sense <\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rickhanson.net\/idea-embodied-experience\/\">From Idea to Embodied Experience<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rickhanson.net\/\">Dr. Rick Hanson<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-excerpt","tag-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>From Idea to Embodied Experience<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This practice &ndash; From Idea to Embodied Experience&ndash; from page 92 in my book &ndash; Hardwiring Happiness &ndash; helps thoughts about a good fact become good feelings, sensations, desires and actions related to it: Be aware of your body as well as the good fact. 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