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Six Daily Questions to Ask Yourself While Social Distancing

BY BROOKE ANDERSON APRIL 13, 2020 As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads, and efforts to “flatten the curve” through physical distancing intensify, many of us find ourselves quarantined at home. The physical isolation and sudden departure from familiar routines can be jarring and disorienting. Settling in for the possibility of an extended shelter-in-place order, I wrote these six “Daily Quarantine

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Sparking Joy: A Mindfulness Practice for Everyday

BY WILLEM KUYKEN NOVEMBER 6, 2019 Mindfulness involves several attitudes of mind that are pivotal to the transformation and liberation of the mind: befriending, compassion, joy and equanimity. These qualities are seen as the foundations of all our development as we embark on a path of mindfulness practice. They are seen as being potentialities and capacities of every human mind

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Three Ways Acceptance Helps You Work with Difficult Emotions

Welcoming and letting tough emotions be—instead of pushing them away—might be the key to riding out unpleasant experiences. BY ZINDEL SEGAL MAY 18, 2016 People often stumble over the concept of acceptance as an approach for dealing with difficult emotions and mind states. In mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) groups that I’ve led, this predictably comes up around the

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