By Rachel Simmons — 2015
It’s not easy to let our kids be less than perfect.
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Our mindfulness practice is not about vanquishing our thoughts. It’s about becoming aware of the process of thinking so that we are not in a trance—lost inside our thoughts.
At a weekend workshop I led, one of the participants, Marian, shared her story about the shame and guilt that had tortured her.
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The truth is: Without a genuine willingness to let in the suffering of others, our spiritual practice remains empty.
Through the acronym RAIN (Recognize-Allow-Investigate-Nurture) we can awaken the qualities of mature compassion—an embodied, mindful presence, active caring, and an all-inclusive heart.
What exactly is a moral person?
It’s hard to hang out with the truth of what we’re feeling. We may sincerely intend to pause and be mindful whenever a crisis arises or whenever we feel stuck and confused, but our conditioning to react, escape, or become possessed by emotion is very strong.
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In order to flower, self-compassion depends on honest, direct contact with our own vulnerability. Compassion fully blossoms when we actively offer care to ourselves.
Applying Buddhist teachings to emotional healing with relationships, marriage, and lust.
One of the great blocks to realizing the gold of who we are is our conviction that something is wrong with me.
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