By Jil Suttie — 2019
Rhonda Magee explains how mindfulness-based awareness and compassion is key to racial justice work.
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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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Simply put: compassion is lovingkindness in action.
Building Bridges for Peace brings together young people from Palestine and Israel.
It’s a spiritual truism that trading places with the less fortunate, psychologically if not literally, can be a powerful motive for doing unto others as you’d have them do unto you.
Call it love, kindness, compassion for all beings—it’s the real elixir, the only one that truly transforms life for ourselves and others.
It's time to open our minds and hearts to the innumerable connections we share with others—in our families, communities, social systems, and on our planet—and strive to understand what it means to be human now.
How to love yourself and others.
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People sometimes criticize meditation as being self-centered. Let’s consider that issue.
Meditation offers time for relaxation and heightened awareness in a stressful world where our senses are often dulled. Research suggests that meditation has the potential for more than just temporary stress relief.
One of the most in-depth meditation studies to date shows that different practices have different benefits.