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Why We Need to Practice Self-Compassion
This five-minute video offers an easy self-compassion practice for moments when we’re feeling critical of ourselves.
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Dive into the world of compassion through mindful practices, articles, and advice. Learn to empathize better and spread kindness in your community.
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Taking Your Practice Off the Meditation Cushion with Improv
An unlikely tool for cultivating compassion lies well beyond the meditation cushion. We find it, instead, in improv communities.
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3 Practices to Come Back to Your Heart
Heather Hurlock, Executive Editor at Mindful, explores ways we can tune into our innate capacity for love and compassion.
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A Practice to Welcome Gratitude with Sharon Salzberg
This practice, from Sharon Salzberg’s book Real Change, opens a doorway in your heart to gratitude and receiving happiness.
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How a Money Conversation Can Transform Your Relationships
Finding the courage to discuss this taboo with others can powerfully heal many of our deep-seated fears and improve our self-worth.
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5 Benefits of Mindfulness for Black, Indigenous, and Women of Color
Coach Katara McCarty writes that, for Black, Indigenous, Women of Color, the mindful act of pausing and noticing trauma—as well as resilience—is key to the journey of healing and thriving.
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A 4-Step Practice to Awaken Your Intention
A strong intention is like a rudder to navigate us through stormy seas. Wendy O’Leary offers a practice to reflect and return to our personal intention, no matter the weather.
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Guided Meditation: Offering Loving-Kindness to Yourself and Others
Loving-kindness expert Sharon Salzberg guides an 8-minute meditation for wishing everyone around us well—including ourselves.
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5 Mindful Habits to Fight Bias Every Day
Our mindfulness practice can be a strong source of support for our efforts to combat bias in ourselves and others.
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A Simple Meditation to Connect With Loving-Kindness, from Sharon Salzberg
This classic loving-kindness meditation can help you to awaken to how connected we all are. You don’t have to like everybody, or agree with everything they do—but you can open up to the possibility of caring for them, because our lives are inextricably linked.
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