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Explore meditation techniques for every level - from your first sitting practice to advanced methods like body scan, breathwork, and loving-kindness. Each practice includes step-by-step guidance to help you build a meditation habit that lasts.
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The Science of Love 

Are there provable methods we can use to become more altruistic and compassionate? Barry Boyce reports on CCARE's growing number of scientists and researchers who are studying how to bring out the best in human nature.  Read More 

  • Barry Boyce
  • September 7, 2010
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Expert Interviews
It’s Not Helping 

What can you do when compassion shows up as frustration? Karen Kissel Wegela on how to be present with our own helplessness. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • August 25, 2010
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Loving-Kindness & Compassion
Surrendered to Love 

How Martin Luther King's vision of life based on a love ethic could heal our wounded world. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • August 25, 2010
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Expert Interviews
The Thisness of What Is 

Diane Ackerman, best-selling author of Cultivating Delight, and The Zoo Keeper’s Wife, on the ancient tradition of meditation and mysticism that sustained two heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • August 25, 2010
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Loving-Kindness & Compassion
Friends & Enemies 

When a sharp word turns a friend into an enemy, it’s always difficult to go back to the way things were. Sylvia Boorstein tells her own story of estrangement and healing. Read More 

  • Sylvia Boorstein
  • August 25, 2010
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Loving-Kindness & Compassion
The Perfect Love We Seek, the Imperfect Love We Live 

Love is what we long to receive and to give, yet our intimate relationships are conflicted and often painful. Psychologist John Welwood reveals the difference between absolute and relative love, and the wound within each of us that no other can heal. Read More 

  • John Welwood
  • August 24, 2010
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Loving-Kindness & Compassion
The Great Mirror 

To see clearly in a relationship we must notice where we connect and where we idealize. Buddhist teacher Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche gives us the tools for greater understanding and insight. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • August 24, 2010
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