You can learn to relate more skillfully to your emotions using mindfulness. A common mistake that we make, however, is depending on our rational, problem-solving mind to fix negative emotions. Remember that emotions are a complex fusion of feelings, thoughts, urges, and bodily sensations. You can only experience emotions, you cannot fix them. Trying to …
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There are many therapeutic approaches that help decrease human distress and suffering. In this article, I will talk about two approaches, including a mindfulness practice, that have been influential and successful in understanding and treating many mental health and quality-of-life issues. Both are based in a present-moment orientation and represent a welcome joining of Eastern …
About seven percent of the population in the U.S. suffer from social anxiety. You are not alone. If you are at an event with a hundred people it is very likely that you will find at least 6 other people with social anxiety and will have suffered from it for most of their lives. You …
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The Chinese Finger Trap Have you ever tried a Chinese finger trap? It’s fun but frustrating. The fun comes as you learn a lesson in the futility of an unwise struggle. The frustration comes if you don’t figure out how to escape and continue the struggle. Imagine sliding your index fingers of each hand into …
Mindfulness: Identifying our thoughts, images and automatic reactivity to them. Seeing our thoughts instead of being our thoughts. Paying attention For many years as I ate a meal I noticed that often the last bite of whatever I was eating tasted so good. Better than all the other bites, in fact. I have to admit that …
What is meditation? The Pali word for meditation is “Bhavana,” which means “to make grow” or “to develop.” What is mindfulness? Mindfulness meditation is what comes from paying attention to something in this moment, on purpose, and without judgment. Adapted from Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Audio “Mindfulness for Beginners“. Personal Insights on Mindfulness Meditation I’m sitting here preparing …
There are many myths and misunderstandings regarding what a mindful meditation practice is. So let’s start from the end. I’ll explain what I mean by starting from the end. I have a friend who, while in music school years ago, used to practice all the wrong notes in a musical scale on his saxophone. This …
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