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Meditation & identity

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Is Meditation Self-Centered?: Adapted from the Science of Enlightenment: How Meditation Works by Shinzen Young

People sometimes criticize meditation as being self-centered. Let’s consider that issue.

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New Year’s Spiritual Renewal: Making Resolutions vs. Transforming Our Identity

What are the “spiritual” approaches to change that go deeper—and are far more successful—than the mere making of resolutions?

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Going on Being: Buddhism and the Way of Change

The bestselling author of Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart combines a memoir of his own journey as a student of Buddhism and psychology with a powerful message about how cultivating true self-awareness and adopting a Buddhist understanding of change can free the mind.

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FindCenter When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, I took a new idea with me: compassion. I asked my heart if it could please infuse my soul with a more generous perspective on my mind’s workings.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Sally Kempton’s Simple Self-Inquiry Meditation

A 5-minute meditation on the question “Who Am I?” can help you look beyond your ego’s definition of you and discover what lies beneath.

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Radio Headspace Rewind: Letting Go of Identities

Through meditation, we are able to let go of the manufactured identities we build for ourselves and the identities that others place on us. Learn to reset the mind and let go of these unhealthy tendencies.

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Radio Headspace Rewind: You vs. You

If you were to line a bunch of babies up, you’d notice that there’s a difference in their nature. Don’t get so caught up in these surface-level traits that you don’t notice who you really are.

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Redefined - Sharon Salzberg

Sharon Salzberg has maintained a meditation practice for nearly fifty years and during that time she has become one of our most compassionate and compelling teachers.

Redefined with Zainab Salbi

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Radio Headspace Rewind: Being vs. Becoming

Do you remember what you wanted to be when you grew up? How about what you want to be in 5 years? So often, we’re so focused on becoming something or someone different, that we can forget to just be who we are right now.

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Radio Headspace Rewind: How Do You See Yourself?

We all seem to have a fixed idea of who we think we are and who we’re not. And often, that can define how we live. But if we can catch those ideas as they arise and explore them, we can see that anything and everything is possible.

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