Calm
There’s Someone Missing in Your Friend Circle: You
We’re mindful to treat our friends with kindness and compassion—here’s how to bring some of that warmth back to the person who often gets neglected.
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Sharon Salzberg on Why Love Will Drive Out Hate
Meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg takes an honest look at the pain and heartsickness in the United States and offers a few words of hope.
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Calm
A Loving-Kindness Meditation to Expand Your Perspective
Mark Bertin offers this twist on loving-kindness meditation where we practice taking small steps toward cultivating well-wishes even for the people we find challenging.
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Purpose, Fear, Love: A “Real Change” Q&A with Sharon Salzberg
Sharon Salzberg offers wise, compassion-focused views on where the world is right now and the part we each have to play in being the change we wish to see.
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Calm
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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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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Calm
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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Mindfulness and Protesting: How to Show Up Without Burning Out
Learning to be present with ourselves may not seem like it directly influences efforts to create change, but it can deepen our awareness and impact how we speak out.
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Compassion
The Gift of Loving-Kindness
World-renowned meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg reveals that we don’t have to make anything happen while practicing loving-kindness. With time, you’ll notice its benefits.
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