Practice You
On womanhood, excellence, Blackness, and our crucial collaborations in parenting, partnership, and creativity.
CLEAR ALL
The “lively” (The New Yorker), “convincing” (Forbes), and “riveting pick-me-up we all need right now” (People) that proves humanity thrives in a crisis and that our innate kindness and cooperation have been the greatest factors in our long-term success as a species.
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Yoga has been misunderstood and misrepresented. We can improve this while carrying compassion, love, and respect for everyone.
A bird was lying on his back in the road with his feet in the air. A horse saw him and asked, “What’re you doing?” The sparrow said, “I’m helping hold back the darkness.” The horse sneered and said, “Yeah, right,” and the sparrow said, “One does what one can.”
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Three messages by prominent Buddhists address the recent mail bombing campaign and deadly shootings.
I wonder how the world would be, how we would live, how children would learn if we intentionally cultivated the spirit of being kind each day. In a world filled with fear and cruelty, we are itching for an outbreak of this characteristic.
When you step out of your own life and take more notice of what's happening in other people's lives, you realise that you have the power to make a difference – a positive difference – in their lives and your own.
Ask how to break a bad habit and just about everyone will tell you to use willpower. Let’s call it the “just say no” response.
Drawing on forty collective years of research and decades of clinical experience, the authors present the best practical advice science has to offer to show family and friends how they can use kindness, positive reinforcement, and motivational and behavioral strategies to help someone change.
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