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Standing in Line - Street Lovingkindness with Sharon Salzberg

By Sharon Salzberg — 2015

Does anyone like to wait in line? It’s annoying getting stuck at the post office or waiting endlessly in line at the store. Sharon takes these moments of stress and transforms them with Loving-kindness in her new video "Standing in Line". See more...

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Ready to Give Meditation a Try?

A beginner's guide to quieting the mind in a time of stress. Includes three guided meditations by popular mindfulness teachers to try now.

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Kimberly Goad
2020
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Compassion Is Like a Muscle That Gets Stronger with Training

Loving-kindness meditation and compassion training boost empathic resilience.

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Christopher Bergland
2018
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Nicole Cardoza’s Meditation for Finding Abundance

Try this short meditation when you need a reminder that you are, and have, enough.

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Nicole Cardoza
2019
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Cultivate a Metta Mind: Loving-Kindness Meditation

Loving-kindness meditation (metta) challenges us to send love and compassion to the difficult people in our lives, including ourselves.

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Sylvia Boorstein
2007
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How to Start Meditating in 21 Steps

Consider doing something nice for your poor, flustered brain. Don't know how to meditate? Neither did we! So we asked Andy Puddicombe, the cofounder of Headspace and the voice on its app, to write this basic script. Have a friend read it to you slowly, setting a timer for 10 minutes.

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Esquire Editors
2019
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Breathing Compassion In and Out

Kristin Neff guides us through a twenty-minute compassion meditation, first directing kind phrases to ourselves and then to others.

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Kristin Neff
2018
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How to Meditate

Meditation is a simple practice available to all, which can reduce stress, increase calmness and clarity and promote happiness. Learning how to meditate is straightforward, and the benefits can come quickly.

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David Gelles
2020
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Heart Minded: How to Hold Yourself and Others in Love

In our noisy, noisy world, it can seem nearly impossible to find ways to turn off our busy minds, which so often flood us with worry and unending lists of tasks.

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Sarah Blondin
2020
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The Practice of Pure Awareness: Somatic Meditation for Awakening the Sacred

Perhaps the most precious teaching Tibet has to offer the modern world is the practice of meditation. Reginald Ray presents the essence of this tradition through the somatic practice of Pure Awareness—a unique kind of meditation that is thoroughly grounded in the body and in ordinary experience.

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Reginald A. Ray
2018
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The Awakening Body: Somatic Meditation for Discovering Our Deepest Life

A senior Buddhist teacher offers fundamental body-based meditation practices that prove enlightenment is as close to you as your own body.

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Reginald A. Ray
2016
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