Compassion: the heart
To cultivate kindness, you really need to involve the body, and more specifically, the heart. Because that really does seem to be where...
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Jun 30, 20232 min read
What is Deliberate Practice?
First, the bad news: Therapy outcomes have not improved in 50 years Therapists do not improve with experience Supervision is not as...
Jun 20, 20235 min read
Compassion: even unto the watering can
I once read in a book about Zen that after you do the gardening, you should clean your tools with great gentleness and care. It's a nice...
May 26, 20233 min read
Compassion: getting stuff done
The most basic benefit that you'll get from cultivating kindness in meditation is that it will help you to keep on meditating. Whereas...
May 17, 20233 min read
Compassion: a nit worth picking
I said in my last post that we don't need to split hairs or pick nits when it comes to kindness, but there is one nitpick/hairsplit that...
Apr 27, 20233 min read
Compassion - beyond nitpicks and hair splits
Warm, fuzzy feelings have always been an integral part of meditation and mindfulness, and not just because meditators are hippies....
Apr 16, 20233 min read
The single best way to get yourself to practise meditation and mindfulness
There are many ways to meditate, and many ways it might benefit you. But none of that is going to happen if you don't actually do it. So...
Apr 8, 20234 min read
The benefits of meditation
The benefits of meditation are many and various, so I won't try and detail them all here. What I'll do instead is lay out all the...
Mar 30, 20233 min read
How to deal with frustration and self-criticism in meditation
The single most common problem for beginner meditators is thinking they "can't do it", and then getting frustrated and self-critical...
Mar 21, 20233 min read
How (not) to use meditation guidance
Meditating on your own, in silence, is sometimes referred to as "self-guided" meditation, presumably because guided meditation is seen as...
Mar 5, 20236 min read
How to become a consistent meditator
So, you’ve learned how to meditate. Great. But now you face the big challenge of actually getting yourself to do it. Here are some tips...
Mar 5, 20234 min read
Mindfulness quick-start guide
What is mindfulness? There’s a lot that could be said about mindfulness, but let's start by saying that it means not being tangled up...
Mar 5, 20235 min read
The benefits of mindfulness
I've written already about what mindfulness is, and how meditation strengthens it, but why should you want it? If mindfulness is one of...
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