Introduction Today I would like to spend some time talking about how we can bring self-compassion to our difficult emotions. In our fast-paced modern world, all of us might find ourselves becoming more reactive and on edge. Our minds might get in hyperdrive with...
Introduction When we sit down to meditate, all sorts of emotions will arise. Emotions and feelings that we might have not allowed ourselves to feel fully and acknowledge will present themselves: pain from past traumas, early childhood and family pain, grief from...
At the first Mind Life conference in 1987, the Dalai Lama was asked by a journalist what was the happiest moment of his life. He was silent for a while and then he gave a mischievous look and said, “I think now”. And this is really the essence of the...
Cultivating the attitude of letting be and letting go or non-attachment is fundamental to the practice of mindfulness. The Thai forest Buddhist monk Ajahn Chah invited his students: “If you let go a little, you ‘ll have a little peace, if you let go a lot, you’ll...
Today I felt drawn to talk about self-care as it is something I have been exploring more in my life as a way to help me cope with increased levels of stress. What is self-care? Self-care is simply taking care of ourselves, every day, nurturing our well-being by...
Mindfulness practice helps us to cultivate presence in our life, by paying attention to what is happening in the here and now. But what is presence? What is presence? The meditation teacher and clinical psychologist Tara Brach describes presence as “the felt sense of...
