Meditation Is About Recovering and Starting Again
Sharon Salzberg explains how she discovered the most important part of meditation practice. Read More
Articles by Sharon Salzberg
Expert Interviews
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
Connect to Your Anger Without Losing Control
Anger has a lot of energy, but what you use it for is up to you. Sharon Salzberg provides two practices to reflect on anger and transform it into self-compassion. Read More
Focus & Attention
From Anger to Love: The Art of Self-Intervention
A practice to help you stop resisting your anger and relate to it with awareness, so you can free yourself from anger’s strangle-hold. Read More
Expert Interviews
The Key to a Mindful Work Life
This expert Q&A with Sharon Salzberg, Janice Marturano, and Barry Boyce explores the role mindfulness plays in taking leadership, measuring success, and preventing burnout. Read More
Guided Meditations
Practice Self-Compassion with Forgiveness
We cannot force ourselves to move on from a painful situation — expecting forgiveness to be quick and voluntary can have negative effects. Explore this mindfulness practice for creating space for ourselves to forgive. Read More
Guided Meditations
RAIN: A Mindfulness Practice for Welcoming Your Emotions
This four-step practice helps you recognize your emotions so you can respond, not react, to challenging situations. Read More
Guided Meditations
How to Recognize Your Inner Critic
There's a tiny voice in the back of our minds that plays off our greatest anxieties, giving its dialogue an addictive quality. Here is a guided meditation to help loosen the grip of problematic thought loops that keep us mired in self-criticism. Read More
Expert Interviews
Why Loving-Kindness Takes Time: Sharon Salzberg
It's only after we've practiced many times that we'll begin to notice a habit developing—namely, letting ourselves off the hook once in awhile. Read More
Expert Interviews
Love Everyone
Sharon Salzberg on how we can extend our hearts to every single person—not just the people we know or like, and not just when we’re feeling good. Read More
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
Be Kind to Yourself—Right Now
To be kind to others, you need to start with yourself. Read More
