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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 
Sharon Salzberg is a meditation teacher and New York Times best-selling author. She is the co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, and has played a crucial role in bringing Asian meditation practices to the West. Sharon has been a student of meditation since 1971, guiding retreats worldwide since 1974. She is a weekly columnist for On Being, a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and the author of many books including Real Happiness, Lovingkindness, and Real Change.
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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
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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
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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
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Be Kind to Yourself—Right Now
To be kind to others, you need to start with yourself. Read More
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Imagine There’s No Suffering: Compassion, Equanimity, and Seeing Causes & Conditions
When a mind is free of judgment, Sharon Salzberg says, we see only suffering and its causes, and wish only that all beings be free from pain. Read More
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