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Diamond Approach Inquiry: Discovering Inner Freedom

By Olivia Fermi — 2021

We can temporarily push our ego away or try to rearrange our personality to be happier, freer, or more realized. But ego comes back. And that’s where Diamond Approach inquiry comes in. We all have awareness and inquiry helps us harness awareness to dissolve ego instead of pushing it away.

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Why Is It So Hard to Pay Attention? Or Is It? Curiosity May Be Key to Concentrating

Here are two ways we can pay attention: force ourselves to concentrate, or be interested. The first way is what I did when I was first learning mindfulness.

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Judson Brewer
2014
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Constant Consciousness

I became extremely serious about meditation practice when I read the following line from the illustrious Sri Ramana Maharshi: “That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.”

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Ken Wilber
1999
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Understand Your Emotions to Grow and Heal

In McLaren’s view, we typically perceive emotions as problems, which we then thoughtlessly express or repress. She advocates a more mindful approach, where we step back and see our emotions as sources of information.

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Marci Sharif
2020
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Repressing or Expressing Emotions? There’s Another Choice!

I don’t know what happened to emotions in this society. They are the least understood, most maligned, and most ridiculously over-analyzed aspects of human life.

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Karla McLaren
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When Rage Goes Viral: 4 Strategies to Cope with Anger in a Healthy Way

Our world is in the midst of an emotional meltdown. People are restless, volatile, our tempers about to blow. Why is rage so rampant? What is the solution?

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Judith Orloff
2011
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Obama’s People and the African Americans: The Language of Othering

To the list of identities Black people in America have assumed or been asked to, we can now add, thanks to this presidential election season, “Obama’s people” and “the African Americans.”

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john a. powell
2016
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Mediation as a Healing Art: A Conversation with Daniel Benor, MD

Linda Lazarus, the Spirituality Editor of Mediate.Com, interviewed Dr. Benor about the relationships between peacemaking and healing.

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Linda Lazarus
2005
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Develop a Mind Like Sky

Meditation teacher Jack Kornfield explains the why and how of developing wise attention, or open awareness.

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Jack Kornfield
2017
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Delighting in Criticism

In the absence of defensiveness, gratitude is all that’s left.

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Byron Katie
2016
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Inner Listening: A Self-Inquiry Exercise

The yoga tradition offers a profound formula for realizing your heartfelt desires: it’s called the practice of sankalpa, or resolve.

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Kelly McGonigal
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