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Acceptance

Como trabajar con la ira

July 2, 2022 6 Comments

Monica Jordan explora como relacionarnos con la ira de una manera consciente

Este artículo fue publicado en Lion’s Roar el 28 de junio de 2022
 
Aunque no me considero una persona que se enoja fácilmente, siempre he tenido mucha curiosidad con respecto a la ira. Cuando era niña, recuerdo haber experimentado un miedo profundo en los momentos caóticos de ira de mi madre. Me sentía impotente y ansiosa, […]

Filed Under: Acceptance, Anger, Anxiety, Embodied Experience, Mindfulness, Miscellaneous, Presence, Self-Compassion

The Gift of Uncertainty

September 27, 2021 7 Comments

Impermanence

What Impermanence can Teach Us
About the Preciousness of Life

 

Clearly, we are living through uncertain times.
Things seem to be changing so radically and so fast that, unless we are aware of what is going on, we might experience a sense of instability that may have a profound impact on the way we feel both emotionally and physically.
In this transition to unpredictability, there is one practice that has been at the center of my wellbeing. […]

Filed Under: Acceptance, Impermanence, Love, Mindfulness, Presence Tagged With: Acceptance, appreciation, gratitude, impermanence, love

Four Mindful Steps to Working with Your Challenging Emotions

July 5, 2021 1 Comment

The RAIN Practice

Many of us are striving to lead a healthy lifestyle making sure to avoid processed foods, eating veggies and fruit, and incorporating some vitamins, supplements and exercise in our daily routine.
However, in spite of all that care, many people still do not feel at the top of their wellbeing scale.
On the other hand, many other people are not careful with their diets, do not exercise and yet they experience joy and enjoy perfect health. […]

Filed Under: Acceptance, Challenges, inner compass, wisdom, Mindfulness, Pausing Tagged With: being present, mindfulness, pausing, RAIN

On Mother’s Day

May 7, 2021 2 Comments

As we approach Mother’s Day, I would like to invite you to take a moment to contemplate, what is/was your mother like? What is/was your relationships with your mother like? What important lessons have you learned from her?
No relationship is perfect, of course. I’m sure there were some challenges, and some very beautiful moments you two spent together.
I had a very tumultuous relationship with my mother growing up. We both had good times but also very challenging times. […]

Filed Under: Acceptance, Embodied Experience, Love, Mindfulness, Miscellaneous, Self-Compassion

Making Friends with Yourself

February 12, 2021 4 Comments

Making Friends with Yourself is the Art of Self-Compassion 

Life offers us so many opportunities for great joy and pleasure but it is our sorrow that can undoubtedly have a detrimental effect on our confidence and on our ability to trust who we are. It is in moments like these that we need to make friends with ourselves by cultivating self-compassion.
Challenging times are often accompanied by anxiety, impatience and a deep sense of uncertainty. […]

Filed Under: Acceptance, Challenges, Compassion, Self-Compassion Tagged With: Buddhism, compassion, empathy, loneliness, lovingkindness, meditation, mindfulness, psychology, Self compassion

Somehow I’m Always Held

June 12, 2018 2 Comments

In my short time on this planet, I have known great sorrow, plunged into the depths of oceanic despair, been thrown so deeply into my loneliness that I thought I would never return.
I have tasted the ecstatic joys of meditation, the fierce intimacy of love, the savage pains of heartbreak, the excitement of unexpected success and the blows of sudden failure.
There were times when I thought I’d never make it, times when my dreams had been shattered so thoroughly I couldn’t imagine how life could ever go on. […]

Filed Under: Acceptance, Challenges, Trust

Laziness as a Personal Teacher

June 3, 2018 Leave a Comment

Also in Spanish ~
Rather than feeling discouraged by laziness, we could get to know laziness profoundly. This very moment of laziness becomes our personal teacher.
Traditionally, laziness is taught as one of the obstacles to awakening. There are different kinds of laziness. First, there’s the laziness of comfort orientation, we just try to stay comfortable and cozy. Then there’s the laziness of loss of heart, a kind of deep discouragement, a feeling of giving up on ourselves, […]

Filed Under: Acceptance, Challenges, Laziness, Mindfulness, Miscellaneous, Resistance, The Power of Thoughts

Relationships Exist to Make us Conscious not Happy

August 15, 2017 Leave a Comment

“Every crisis represents not only danger but also opportunity.  As the egoic mode of consciousness and all the social, political, and economic structures that it created enter the final stage of collapse, the relationships between men and women reflect the deep state of crisis in which humanity now finds itself. As humans have become increasingly identified with their mind, most relationships are not rooted in Being and so turn into a source of pain and become dominated by problems and conflict. […]

Filed Under: Acceptance, Challenges, Mindfulness, Relationships Tagged With: Acceptance, challenges, Mindful relationships, mindfulness

Pema Chodron – The Diamond Thief

August 10, 2017 Leave a Comment

This is a 3+ minute excerpt from Pema Chödrön’s online course called “Freedom to Love.” In this short talk, Pema tells the story of The Diamond Thief, and reflects on the need to become aware of our own inner richness that is always already within us. […]

Filed Under: Acceptance, Mindfulness, Relationships Tagged With: Acceptance, inner power, mindfulness, Self compassion

A Simple Way to Break a Bad Habit

August 1, 2017 Leave a Comment

Psychiatrist and addiction expert Judson Brewer shares groundbreaking research on the mechanism of mindfulness techniques that effectively help quell cravings of all kinds. […]

Filed Under: Acceptance, Challenges, Mindfulness, Pausing Tagged With: Breaking a bad habit, challenges, mindfulness, pausing

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