Practices for Recovering Resilience
Tara Brach’s True Refuge
Tara Brach’s latest book was released Tuesday: True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart. Tara is an internationally revered meditation teacher and clinical psychologist. Her first […]
The Compassionate Mind
The Greater Good Science Center at U.C. Berkeley is bringing together leading researchers and educators in the fields of mindfulness and compassion practice for a day of scientific and clinical […]
Healthy Mind Platter
I heard Dan Siegel, co- author of The Whole Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind, speak to a group of parents earlier this week about […]
From New Year’s Resolutions to Reliable Habits
Ten days into the new year, we may already be experiencing the falling away of the best of our intentions to create new wholesome habits. We really mean to exercise […]
Three Points to Steady You through Life’s Changes
At breakfast the other day, I commented to my friend Richard Miller, developer of yoga nidra, that when we’re going through a time of change and transition, as often happens […]
Taking the Leap
The title of Pema Chodron’s book Taking the Leap inspired this year-end e-newsletter. We’re on the cusp of 2012 transitioning into 2013. Some folks believe we’re also at the end […]
Running Makes Your Brain Smarter
An article yesterday in the New York Times Health/Science section on “Exercise and the Ever-Smarter Human Brain” provides some strong incentives to include running or walking in our new year’s […]
Human Strength and Goodness After Sandy Hook
(I taught The Healing Power of Self-Compassion in the Wednesday morning meditation class at Spirit Rock Meditation Center yesterday. The post below came in from the Greater Good Science Center […]
landFillharmonic
Transforming trash into music and joy Please, please view the less-than-four minutes landFillharmonic video of the recycled orchestra, kids playing classical music on instruments transformed from trash in Cateura, Paraguay. […]
The Grasshopper in the Salad… Adventures in Resilience
I buy my organic lettuce greens and salad mixings at the grocery story, come home, toss up a large salad, large enough to serve myself for lunch and put several […]