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To cultivate kindness, you really need to involve the body, and more specifically, the heart. Because that really does seem to be where...

First, the bad news: Therapy outcomes have not improved in 50 years Therapists do not improve with experience Supervision is not as...

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...

The most basic benefit that you'll get from cultivating kindness in meditation is that it will help you to keep on meditating. Whereas...

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...

Warm, fuzzy feelings have always been an integral part of meditation and mindfulness, and not just because meditators are hippies....

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...

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...

The single most common problem for beginner meditators is thinking they "can't do it", and then getting frustrated and self-critical...

Meditating on your own, in silence, is sometimes referred to as "self-guided" meditation, presumably because guided meditation is seen as...

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...

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...

I've written already about what mindfulness is, and how meditation strengthens it, but why should you want it? If mindfulness is one of...