How to Claim the Power You Do Have (and Disengage Where You Don't) with Rick Hanson

We often give away our power by focusing on what we can’t control and getting pulled into stress, overthinking, or other people’s reactions. In this talk, I’ll show you how to reclaim your power by focusing on where you actually have influence—your attention, your actions, and your choices—so you can live with more clarity, strength, and purpose.

00:00 — A practical path of inner development begins with stabilizing attention and building the ability to stay present moment by moment.
02:26 — Recognizing and strengthening beneficial inner states like calm, compassion, openness, and ease.
04:20 — A shift in identity from reacting to experience → to abiding in qualities like presence, awareness, and spaciousness.
07:05 — Growth as an ongoing path, focusing on the next step within reach to deepen stability and inner strength.
08:41 — A key framework: distinguishing where you are at cause (where you have power) versus at effect (where things act on you).
12:35 — Clearly seeing limits—not as defeat, but as a way to direct energy toward what you can actually influence.
21:18 — How attention, reactivity, and familiar patterns can pull you into other people’s agendas—and how to take your power back.
31:48 — Acting with care and intention, investing your time, energy, and attention where they can truly make a difference.

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