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It can be difficult to discern between sloth and the need for rest. Removing the judgment that can come with experiencing sloth can help us move toward a life that brings us energy.
Mindfulness and deep breathing may not cure anxiety, but they can be easy and quick practices to ground yourself — especially in situations and environments outside of your control.
Anxiety can feel like “high energy confined to a restricted space.” Changing your environment — whether through lovingkindness meditation, chanting, or otherwise — can help you create space for it to dissipate.
Some fears are realistic; others are imaginary and insurmountable creations, fabrications of “free-floating hyperactivity of the mind.”
Quieting your tendency to compare yourself to others can allow you to more fully enjoy the present moment — and fully claim your life.
Sharon Salzberg on the many faces of love — with practical tools to find love in everyday moments.
It takes courage to challenge our cultural story around love. Sharon Salzberg on the unfolding, sometimes tough, process of learning to love yourself.
The hard work of hope involves the discipline to embrace the unknown and the uncontrollable — one day at a time.
Sharon Salzberg on how to relate to the people whose views we find repugnant and frightening and with whom we can’t imagine standing on common ground.
Sharon Salzberg's advice for difficult conversations with family at Thanksgiving? Practice listening from a place of generosity and love — whether you agree or not.
We’re beset with horrible news from all sides, these days — from the lives lost in Las Vegas to the millions suffering in Puerto Rico and Houston. Sharon Salzberg asks: Can we break out of our cycle of agitation to meet this suffering from a place of love?
She embodied a sense of steady gratitude regardless of the circumstances. A reflection in memoriam of police captain-turned-dharma teacher Cheri Maples.
To make the world a better place is an intimidating challenge. But what if we focused on our immediate surroundings?
Love and gratitude can be daring, disruptive acts in a world that insists on conflict and endless craving.
A balm for burnout: self-love and a guided meditation to empower us to take a stand — literally — for our own right to be happy and whole.
Lovingkindness isn't a sweet and soft thing. It's a rigorous transformation of mind and spirit, and it's the first step to cultivating a sense of connection to those around us.
A sense of mindfulness can help us recalibrate our reactions to those we judge as different or dangerous.
The stories we tell about love and life are the root of dreams and frustration, alike. Sharon Salzberg on how "unstitching and reweaving" the narratives we hold can lead to a more generous understanding of our relationships, and ourselves.
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