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Loving-Kindness & Compassion

Loving-kindness and compassion practices train you to extend warmth and care - first to yourself, then to others. These meditations can shift how you relate to difficult emotions, tough relationships, and your own inner critic.
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Breathing Meditations
You Can Change Your Life by Loving Yourself 

Learning to take care of your heart, to accept the pain that comes with seeing the people you love suffer, and to be okay with suffering yourself, is the true work of self-love—and it begins with the breath. Read More 

  • Ali Smith
  • June 10, 2024
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Focus & Attention
A 12-Minute Meditation for Learning About Our Biases 

This guided meditation is a mindful journey of introspection and forgiveness. Tovi Scruggs-Hussein guides us to reflect on ingrained prejudices and the impact they have on our interactions and societal structures. Read More 

  • Tovi Scruggs-Hussein
  • May 16, 2024
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Depression & Grief
Please Die Soon: Finding Compassion for Unimaginable Thoughts 

When someone you love is dying, there could be a secret moment, when things are really bad, when you hear yourself silently whisper the unimaginable thought: Please die soon. Say what??? It is with a brave heart, writes Elaine Smookler, that we look at this whole journey of death and make peace with the wild currents that threaten to pull us under. Read More 

  • Elaine Smookler
  • May 15, 2024
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