By Matthew Thorpe, Rachel Link — 2020
Meditation is the habitual process of training your mind to focus and redirect your thoughts. The popularity of meditation is increasing as more people discover its many health benefits.
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One of the most in-depth meditation studies to date shows that different practices have different benefits.
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Pema Chödrön on four ways that meditation helps us deal with difficulty.
Most of us have heard that meditation is a good practice to start, with many different benefits to both physical and mental health. Nowadays, there are so many different kinds of meditation out there that it can seem overwhelming to consider which one to choose.
This meditation uses words, images, and feelings to evoke a lovingkindness and friendliness toward oneself and others.
Call it love, kindness, compassion for all beings—it’s the real elixir, the only one that truly transforms life for ourselves and others.
You have enlightened nature, says Pema Khandro Rinpoche. If you truly know that, you’ll always be kind to yourself.
Pema Khandro Rinpoche on cultivating the boundless love of a bodhisattva.
Understanding Loving-Kindness, a meditation focused on nurturing compassion, kindness, goodwill, and love for oneself and others.
I have a love-hate relationship with the aphorism “happiness is a choice.” On the one hand, the saying has wonderful potential: it can speak to the power we could have (or already do have) to lift ourselves out of emotional quagmires.
The word "love"—one of the most compelling in the English language—is commonly used for purposes so widely separated, so gross and so rarefied, as to render it sometimes nearly meaningless.