Loving Kindness and the Realization of Personal Freedom
Hello everyone, I wanted to talk with you a moment about the relationship between loving kindness and personal freedom. Practicing loving kindness isn’t about being a better person and it doesn’t mean that you will stop having negative thoughts about people and situations. What the practice of loving kindness does however, is give you the […]
Continue ReadingRelaxation Meditation: Focus on the exhale
Have you ever heard the expression, “Take a deep breath and relax?” Of course you have. But this advice could be doing you more harm then good. You may have noticed that when you are feeling stressed or tense that it is difficult to inhale deeply, maybe even painful. In fact one of the tell-tale […]
Continue ReadingThe Problem with Forgiveness
In June while preparing a lesson on “forgiveness” for my meditation class, my husband Stu and I had a long discussion on the subject. I said that I felt that forgiveness was essential to feeling balanced, joyful, and “connected.” “In my mind,” I said, “I imagine the feeling of one-ness to be blissful.” My husband […]
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