Compassion
How to Be Kind When Confronted with Cruelty
Kindness is a force of imagination—a whole-hearted, courageous, genuine awareness that we are all connected.
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Sharon Salzberg
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A Loving-Kindness Practice to Foster Acceptance
We spend a lot of our time and energy wishing our lives were different or "better." Loving-kindness helps us accept ourselves exactly as we are.
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Compassion
Sharon Salzberg: Connect with Kindness
Feeling disconnected? Try this loving-kindness practice.
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Feeling Lonely? Embrace Compassion
In a world driven by competition and comparison, Sharon Salzberg contends shifting our definition of love might be the key to reconnecting to what matters most.
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Meditation is About Recovering and Starting Again
Sharon Salzberg explains how she discovered the most important part of meditation practice.
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Calm
Connect to Your Anger Without Losing Control
Anger has a lot of energy, but what you use it for is up to you. Sharon Salzberg provides two practices to reflect on anger and transform it into self-compassion.
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Calm
From Anger to Love: The Art of Self-Intervention
A practice to help you stop resisting your anger and relate to it with awareness, so you can free yourself from anger’s strangle-hold.
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Calm
RAIN: A Mindfulness Practice for Welcoming Your Emotions
This four-step practice helps you recognize your emotions so you can respond, not react, to challenging situations.
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Calm
How to Recognize Your Inner Critic
There's a tiny voice in the back of our minds that plays off our greatest anxieties, giving its dialogue an addictive quality. Here is a guided meditation to help loosen the grip of problematic thought loops that keep us mired in self-criticism.
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Why Loving-Kindness Takes Time: Sharon Salzberg
It's only after we've practiced many times that we'll begin to notice a habit developing—namely, letting ourselves off the hook once in awhile.
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