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Tag: Compassion

  • Welcome November

    This month, look for small things to appreciate.

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Focus Switching This powerful practice can train our ability to switch our focus and discover which type of mindful focal point works best for us. Here’s how! Notice a niggle or (physical) pain in your body or an uncomfortable emotion you are experiencing, or…

  • Mindful Monday

    Mindful Monday

    Self-Compassion What do you need right now? What do you long to hear from others? Write 3 well wishes to yourself by filling in the blank: “May I __________.” Close your eyes, and say out loud these statements slowly to yourself. *If speaking out loud is not available to you now, write down the statements…

  • Welcome May

    May is Mental Health Awareness Month. For this month, focus on slowing down and simplifying. What is one thing you can remove from your schedule today?

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  • Meditation Monday

    Loving Kindness Meditation “Metta” How to Develop Compassion: Apply  the 5 Stages of Loving Kindness Stage 1: Loving Kindness for Yourself Stage 2: Loving Kindness for a Good Friend Stage 3: Loving Kindness for a Neutral Person Stage 4: Loving Kindness for a Difficult Person (Enemy) Stage  5: Loving Kindness for All Beings (Everybody) A Loving Kindness Script: May I…

  • Mindful Monday

    Mindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment. Mindfulness also involves acceptance, meaning that we pay attention to our thoughts and feelings without judging them – without believing, for instance, that there is a “right” or “wrong” way to think or feel in a given moment. When we…

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