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Fostering Spiritual Kinship Reflections from Pamela Ayo Yetunde, author of Casting Indra’s Net For all the wonderful things people think Buddhism is about, I believe Buddhist practitioners remain under-resourced when it comes to interfaith (and by this I also mean interreligious) leadership and dialogue. Many things are said about Buddhism: it’s a world religion, it’s [...]
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Gentling the Inner Critic As you left their voice behind The stars began to burn Through. . . . —Mary Oliver, “The Journey” Our inner critic is the part of us that has given up on us. It hurls “can’ts” and “shoulds” at us: You can’t go. You can’t make it alone. You should [...]
Continue Reading >> Sign up to receive hand-picked advice on life, love, and relationships from psychotherapist, teacher, and bestselling author David Richo. With over 50 years of experience as a psychotherapist, David Richo is a leading relationship expert whose work has touched hundreds of thousands of hearts and lives. Blending Western psychology and Eastern spirituality, he offers a [...]
Continue Reading >> Relationships as a Spiritual Practice A Q&A with David Richo, author of How to Be an Adult in Relationships What does it mean to be an “adult” in relationships? Firstly, what does it mean to be an “adult?” To be an adult is to learn to play for ourselves the roles the functional family was [...]
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A Few Thoughts about Suffering An excerpt from Peace from Anxiety As you can see from the discussion of trauma, suffering comes in many flavors. It can be rooted in personal, interpersonal, or systemic issues. Some suffering is inevitable—things like death, illness, and loss touch everyone in their lifetime. Some of us are protected from [...]
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The material in Peace from Anxiety can be much more impactful when approached in an interactive and exploratory way. It is especially powerful when you can engage with the material with others. This is your guide to working with the concepts in this book with a small, trusted group of people. There are many ways [...]
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5 Free Tools to Release Stress and Anxiety ENTER YOUR EMAIL TO RECEIVE FIVE FREE TOOLS FROM PEACE FROM ANXIETY. Reclaim your capacity to heal and learn to regulate your nervous system with practices and reflections from therapist and yoga teacher Hala Khouri, author of Peace from Anxiety. Draw a body map, learn to feel [...]
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Navigating Difficult Conversations An excerpt from Compassionate Conversations Intention and Conversation Having a clear intention will literally help us navigate our conversations when we encounter difficult terrain. To enter a conversation (other than one that is simply social) without an intention is like walking into the wilderness without a compass. And yet we engage in conversations [...]
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Mindful Sex An excerpt from Passion & Presence Taking it to the Sheets: Mindful Sex So, what exactly is mindful sex? What images come into your mind at the mention of “erotic presence”? Are you seeing two people breathing in synchrony as they gaze lovingly into each other’s eyes? If you imagine penetration, are you [...]
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The Babylike Sweetness of Love An excerpt from Love Unveiled Let me see if I can give you some feel, some taste, some flavor of what love is like when it is active, manifesting, and we are feeling it. When we say “I love you” to somebody, what do we usually mean? Many of us [...]
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by Kimberly Myosai Loh, co-author of Compassionate Conversations This article is the third in a series of three, sharing perspectives from the book Compassionate Conversation: How to Speak and Listen from the Heart, co-authored by Diane Musho Hamilton, Gabriel Menegale Wilson, and Kimberly Myosai Loh. Read the first article in the series, “What Makes a Successful [...]
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By Kimberly Myosai Loh, co-author of Compassionate Conversations This article is the second in a series of three, sharing perspectives from the book Compassionate Conversation: How to Speak and Listen from the Heart, co-authored by Diane Musho Hamilton, Gabriel Menegale Wilson, and Kimberly Myosai Loh. Read the first article in the series, “What Makes a Successful [...]
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by Kimberly Myosai Loh, co-author of Compassionate Conversations Photo by eberhard grossgasteiger This article is the first in a series of three, sharing perspectives from the book Compassionate Conversation: How to Speak and Listen from the Heart, co-authored by Diane Musho Hamilton, Gabriel Menegale Wilson, and Kimberly Myosai Loh. Read the second article in the [...]
Continue Reading >> A Foreword to Compassionate Conversations by Ken Wilber One of the most gratifying and encouraging developments on the recent cultural scene is that, after literally decades of polarizing and increasingly nasty culture wars, there are individuals who do not simply join in the fray and thus only contribute to the mess, but rather have started to [...]
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How Not to Be a Hot Mess A Survival Guide for Modern Life ENTER YOUR EMAIL TO RECEIVE THREE GUIDED VIDEO MEDITATIONS TO YOUR INBOX. Authors of How Not to Be a Hot Mess, Craig and Devon Hase, offer a series of meditations that are short, introductory practices you can do anytime and anywhere to [...]
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Purposeful Communication & Negotiation An Excerpt from Politics and Conscience Hammarskjöld cared about nothing so much as dialogue and its formal version, negotiation. It was the heart of his activity as secretary-general, and the hum of purposeful dialogue is needed throughout the world if we are to find our way. From his perspective, dialogue isn’t day-to-day [...]
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Exploring Healthy Communication An excerpt from Triggers Building Trust Partners in romantic relationships naturally trigger one another. This follows from the fact that our choice of a partner has so much to do with transference from our past. We often unconsciously choose a partner who reminds us of the parent with whom we have unfinished [...]
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Being at Your Best When Your Kids Are at Their Worst Practical Compassion in Parenting ENTER YOUR EMAIL TO RECEIVE "THE FOURFOLD YOU" EXERCISE AS A PRINTABLE PDF FILE. Find support in your journey toward compassionate parenting with an exercise from Being at Your Best When Your Kids Are at Their Worst! The path of [...]
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The Fourth Trimester Cards ENTER YOUR EMAIL TO RECEIVE YOUR 10 FREE CARDS FROM THE FOURTH TRIMESTER CARD DECK. Help new mothers thrive with The Fourth Trimester Cards! The postpartum time can be one of bonding, restoration, and health, yet many new mothers feel isolated and lonely as they learn to care for a new [...]
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"Turn Your Wounds Into Wisdom" An Excerpt from Conceiving With Love I am a huge fan of Oprah. She has done what she encourages all of us to do: “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” She knows what it’s like to suffer sexual abuse and heal from it. And while she didn’t go on to have [...]
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The following is an excerpt from Inseparable Across Lifetimes by Holly Gayley A Letter from Tāre Lhamo The tenth letter Tāre Lhamo sent to Namtrul Rinpoche during their correspondence. This is a duet that Tāre Lhamo composed between Devī and Pema. Devī means “goddess” in Sanskrit and translates the second part of her name, Lhamo, [...]
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Trust in Your Relationship: Commitment, Constraint, and Containment
Exploring the Concept of Commitment in Relationships An Excerpt from Love between Equals: Relationship as a Spiritual Path Many people nowadays do not understand whether or why they should get married or commit themselves to a monogamous or exclusive sexual relationship. In this regard, we seem to have forgotten that what is most important to [...]
Where Are You Coming From? | A Mindful Approach to Communication
The Power of Intention An Excerpt from Say What You Mean "I developed NVC as a way to train my attention—to shine the light of consciousness—on places that have the potential to yield what I am seeking. What I want in my life is compassion, a flow between myself and others based on a mutual [...]
When Life Changed Forever Off to Colorado Life changed forever the day I set out in my sky-blue VW Bug heaving with everything I owned. An old carpenter’s chest, a gift from my mother and stepfather, had been carefully packed with watercolors, paintbrushes, and other art paraphernalia and small, cherished belongings. A single suitcase that [...]
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From Compliance to Choice All experience has shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer . . . than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But . . . it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their [...]
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By Taylor Sumner Student Intern, Prajna Studios I feel so frustrated by my habit of reaching for my phone the moment I open my eyes. Something about the blue-white light, the information, the advertisements in the space I use to rest and reset feels wrong. Starting my day with such a wave of content feels [...]
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Graduation means many different things: it means endings as well as new beginnings, celebrations as well as new challenges, uncertainties as well as excitements. This little collection of books—on relationships, change, festivities, and more—will help grads and the people who love them to navigate their rite of passage with grace and support. A LITTLE BOOK [...]
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by Lindsay Michko Whether you’re single, in relationship, or “it’s complicated,” February 14th is a day of super-charged emotions: the bliss of being in love, the pangs of loneliness, the bittersweet imperfections of relationship, and everything in between. Regardless of where you fall on this spectrum, the following titles are sure to heighten your [...]
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