Giving Your Heart to Real Change Friends, The excerpt this week is from Insights at the Edge, produced by Sounds True and edited from Tami Simon’s interview with Sharon Salzberg. Sharon is the co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, the host of the Metta podcast. For Sharon, the practice of meditation and…
All For Love Friends, The excerpt this week is from a chapter in Matt Kahn’s book, All for Love: The Transformative Power of Holding Space. “In this chapter, … you’ll get a sense of the Holding Space process as it relates to supporting those around you by seeing them with a deep sense of reverence…
Quotes of Yogananda Friends, The excerpt this week is from a webpage called “21 Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes to Unveil Your Inner Light” posted on February 4, 2018. Yogananda is a Hindu guru who came to the United States in the 1920’s and established headquarters for Self Realization Fellowship in Los Angeles, CA. His mission was…
RAIN To Transform Suffering Friends, The excerpt this week comes from Buddhist teacher Tara Brach entitled,”Transforming Suffering with RAIN: Remembering Who We Are.” “Greetings, my friends, and welcome to this program on the RAIN meditation: the acronym RAIN stands for Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture. It’s a weave of mindfulness and compassion that can radically transform…
Processing Daughter’s Death Friends, The excerpt for the week of April 5, 2022 is from an article in The International Focusing Institute’s March newsletter entitled, “Processing my Daughter’s Death,” by Richard Dawson. “In recent months I have been introduced to the activity of Focusing. This has been a gift for me, for I have been…