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“To be creative means to consider the whole process of life as a process of birth, and not to take any stage of life as a final stage.” Eric Fromm 26 Aug 2013 | 08:24 pm
For social psychologist and psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, creativity wasn’t necessarily about bringing something — a poem, a symphony, a sculpture — into being. For him, creativity was an attitude. Creat...
The Power of Self-Compassion: A Workshop in Toronto, Oct 19, 2013 21 Aug 2013 | 09:32 pm
On this workshop we’ll explore the power that self-compassion has to free us from hurt and fear, and to free us up to be compassionate toward others. Studies have shown that self-compassion leads to ...
On doing a variety of practices 20 Aug 2013 | 11:17 pm
Sometimes I have meditation students who have problems learning a particular meditation technique because it appears to be fundamentally different — even contradictory — to other approaches to meditat...
Guided meditation: mindfulness of breathing 18 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
The video below is another recording from one of the Google Plus Hangout meditations that I lead from time to time. This one is a form of the mindfulness of breathing. It follows the traditional form...
Could an awareness of the heartbeat be a vital component of empathy with others? 16 Aug 2013 | 06:55 pm
An awareness of the heart (the physical organ, not the metaphorical seat of emotion) and its role in empathy. Noticing the heart concerns a process called interoceptive awareness (IA), which is just a...
Mindfulness: now in exciting 3D! 15 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
I used to practice and teach mindfulness of breathing largely as if it were “mindfulness of the breath.” The difference is that when we think about “the breath” we think about the stuff that flows in ...
The dark side of meditation 14 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm
Here’s an interesting conversation between Brown University neuroscientist (and meditation teacher) Willoughby Britton and yoga and Buddhism teacher Michael Stone. Britton, as a good scientist, is int...
Meditation, technology, and Google Glass 14 Aug 2013 | 07:10 pm
New Hampshire magazine had a nice piece on some of the meditation facilities and teachers available in the state, and part of the article was about my work. The Future of Meditation? You’d think not...
Taking care of the present moment 9 Aug 2013 | 08:57 pm
I’ve been having a well-earned rest from blogging after completing our 100 Days of Lovingkindness, during which time I managed to contribute a blog post every day, despite also, for the last month, ha...
Guided Meditation: Mindfulness of Breathing 3 Aug 2013 | 01:09 am
This is a guided meditation that I led this week in a Google+ Hangout (that’s a form of videoconferencing, if you’re not familiar with it) with some meditation students. After 100 Days of Lovingkindn...
