Blog Topic: Inspiration
Read more“If your compassion does not include yourself,
it is incomplete.”~Jack Kornfield
Today's Dose of Inspiration
"If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete." ~Jack Kornfield
What is Self-Compassion?
Simple treating yourself with the same kindness, love and care as you would treat a friend who was having a difficult time.
Caring for Your Soul
"You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output -- how much you produce -- not in...
Body Compassion: Using Your Breath to Change Body Image
You can always use your breathe to settle your mind and gently change your relationship to food and your body. It takes practice and kindness. Because your mind will wander. The practice is to gently, kindly bring it back to your breathe. Observe your mind, note...
Meditation for Compassionate Weight Loss
We live in a 'boot camp' kind of world. Most of us have been taught to motivate ourselves with striving, pushing, ignoring feelings and using negative self-talk. There is another way. A more compassionate way - that research shows has positive health, fitness and...
Body Compassion: Head to Toe Appreciation
This visualization helps you cultivate the skill of appreciating your body from head to toe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKKfhQI-uVY
Afternoon of Life
After I turned 50, I became more aware of the preciousness of life. That there was a time limit on my existence in this little life as I know it and there was less time now, than more. I looked around at my beautiful friends who are also moving into the afternoons of...
In These Arms, A Song for All Beings
Ten Secrets to Positive Parenting This ls a great resource to parents of young children. There is no doubt that those early years are the busiest. You wake up and hit the ground running. If we are too stressed, our parenting becomes more reactive to situations,...
8 Step Recovery – another way
Book Recommendation: Eight Step Recovery: Using the Buddha’s Teachings to Overcome Addiction Dr. VALERIE MASON-JOHN Here are the 8 steps: Step One: Accepting that this human life will bring suffering Step Two: Seeing how we create extra suffering in our lives Step...