Tag: compassion
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How to Alleviate Pain through Mindfulness Practices
This post explores the concept of mindfulness of the body and how we typically avoid feeling unpleasant sensations. Since the pain or discomfort often indicates a temporary condition, resisting it can worsen our suffering. Mindfulness meditation can be used as a way to cope, as it promotes self-compassion and acceptance when experiencing unpleasant sensations.
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Why Meditation Is Key to Experiencing More Joy and Pleasure
Meditation is often misunderstood as a strict discipline, which can lead to failure in practice. While it helps in focusing and experiencing the present moment, it’s not about emptying the mind but rather noticing thoughts. Meditation enhances awareness of bodily sensations, promoting self-compassion and acceptance of life’s changes, leading to joy and healing.
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Rebuild Trust with Your Body: A Self-Care Journey
Many people struggle to maintain their New Year’s resolutions focused on diet and exercise. The author urges readers to reconsider their approach to self-improvement by emphasizing the importance of listening to their bodies rather than rigid goals. The meditation practice fosters self-care, intuition, and reconnection with one’s needs for overall wellbeing.
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Mindfulness in Health and Sickness: Steps to Heal with Compassion
The author reflects on the themes of impermanence and suffering, sharing personal struggles with chronic illness. They emphasize the importance of self-kindness and compassion in overcoming the urge to “power through” pain. By practicing mindfulness and changing habitual responses, individuals can foster healthier coping strategies and ultimately enhance their quality of life.
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Spring Clean
For many people springtime is the most welcome and favourite time of the year. The new life sprouts all around us. Flowers are blooming. Fresh green leaves appear on tree branches and the air warms up. We can almost imagine the long summer evenings and pack those bulky winter clothes jackets and coats away. We…
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Overthinking
I think that overthinking is a major problem in our lives 😉 It really affects how we function in the world. It can stop us from doing things that are beneficial to us, when we believe we cannot do those for one reason or the other. It can lead us to do things that are…
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Forgiveness
Welcome to the New Year, a time when we often find ourselves reviewing the previous year’s goals and resolutions. Some of us are probably generally satisfied with the accomplishments of some of those goals. Others may be disappointed with how things turned out. I wonder which group do you find yourself in? I usually discover…
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Choices
There are so many things that we cannot control, yet we must make choices. We make them based on a strong belief that by making the choice, we do have some influence on the future outcome. My life has been filled with such choices. I have chosen to rebel against diet culture to free myself…
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Too Much? Too Loud? Too Big?
I was always told I am too much of something. I was instructed not to speak so much and not to sing so loud. I was asked not to be so emotional. And, certainly, I was told not to eat so much. I was too much, too loud, and too big. For years and years,…
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Healing through belonging
We are social beings; we all need to belong. We literally get ill from loneliness, and we heal by reconnecting to others. I have experienced this phenomenon many times in my own life, as I am sure, most of us did. Even the most introverted of us, those who balance their energy by hiding away…
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