Loving kindness. We all need it.
In the free Insight Timer app (available for ios and adroid), you can find short, 6-minute and 10-minute guided loving kindness meditations offered and led by Sharon Salzberg.
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Everyone has a nervous system. One of the things that this nervous system does is it listens. And then it reflects, and then it responds.
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I took this photograph today. Later, I noticed hearts lining the spines of some of the leaves.
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Read more ›“You expand and then you meet your own resistance. In the human body and experience, as in nature, there is a continuous play between these forces. We reach to expand and are held back by constriction.”
—Betsy Polatin, Humanual, from Chapter One, (c) 2020
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Daily Questions—or what I have been tending to refer to as the daily question—is a wonderful resource available on the website, Gratefulness.org, that I wanted to share here in case you or another might sense it to be a nice fit/resource for you at this time and/or it might be something you experience it as beneficial.
Read more ›In case you need a reminder, may you be gentle toward yourself. (Equally, may you be gentle toward all of your selves.)
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