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A Meditation for Offering Yourself Kindness
Follow this practice to give yourself the kind wishes and words you need to hear the most.
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Steven Hickman is the former Executive Director of the non-profit Center for Mindful Self-Compassion, a Certified Mindful Self-Compassion teacher and trainer, and a Clinical Psychologist by training. He is also a Retired Associate Clinical Professor in the University of California at San Diego School of Medicine, as well as the Founding Director of the UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness. With his colleague Michelle Becker, he co-developed the Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher Training program (both in-person and live online versions) and has directly participated in the training of over 1,000 MSC teachers around the world. He has taught the MSC program many times around the globe and is also a Certified teacher and trainer of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). He lives in Newport, Oregon.
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What Is Interpersonal Meditation?
The latest installment in our ongoing series of helpful answers to common meditator questions.
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Calm
Meditating with Asthma and Other Breathing Problems
For those with a history of breathing problems, the seemingly simple process of breathing is entangled with fear, anxiety, and other difficult emotions.
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The Mindful FAQ: When to Make a Meditation Session Longer
Extending your practice can bring challenges that may not arise in shorter sessions. Find out when to make your meditation session longer.
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Anxiety
The Mindful FAQ: How to Meditate with a Cold
Can you meditate with a cold? Mindfulness is a practice of being with whatever shows up—that includes the sniffles and itchy eyes.
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The Mindful FAQ: Why Meditate Early in the Morning?
Test your theory about not being a morning person.
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The Mindful FAQ: Can Mindfulness Do More Harm Than Help?
If you feel that a particularly challenging feeling or memory is growing too big or intense to bear, the most mindful thing you can do is to choose intentionally to disengage, says clinical psychologist and mindfulness teacher Steve Hickman.
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Anxiety
How to Handle Big Emotions During Group Meditation
The trick is to keep challenging feelings from overwhelming you—to have them simply inform how you feel instead.
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Anxiety
How to Meditate When You’re Anxious
When you're feeling anxious and jittery, try an alternative to seated meditation.
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Anxiety
The Upside of Sadness
It’s never fun, but over the course of a lifetime, sadness visits us all. What if instead of resisting, you could welcome it in and listen to what it has to say?
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