Comments on: Feeling Fear? Lovingkindness – A Path to Healing

By: The Necessary Ingredient to Prime Your Mind Toward Success | Mindfulness and Psychotherapy

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:13:50 +0000

[...] forward, what are you wishing for yourself (e.g., health, feeling safe, free from fear, happiness, a sense of [...]

By: Opening to Trust, Love and Intimacy: An Interview with David Richo Ph.D. | A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:03:20 +0000

[...] It is important to pay particular attention to our anger, defined as displeasure at an injustice. This means that anger is appropriate when it is based on the breaking of an agreement, a hurt at the heart level. Alternatively, an expectation is held by only one person. We are hurt at the ego level because our sense of entitlement was not honored. That anger is a frustration that can become aggressive and unhealthy. When we are committed to personal integrity, we look within ourselves to explore our anger. If it is appropriate, based on the breaking of a bilateral agreement, we express our anger directly to our partner, always nonviolently. When our anger is the indignation of our disappointed ego, we call ourselves on our projections and expectations. Then we bring our whole experience—and our unsatisfactory partner—to our loving-kindness practice. [...]

By: Opening to Trust, Love and Intimacy: An Interview with David Richo Ph.D. | Mindfulness and Psychotherapy

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:30:51 +0000

By: Making Change Stick in the New Year | Mindfulness and Psychotherapy

Making Change Stick in the New Year | Mindfulness and Psychotherapy — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 20:32:34 +0000

[...] forward, what are you wishing for yourself (e.g., health, feeling safe, free from fear, happiness, a sense of [...]

By: cheryl

cheryl — Sun, 30 May 2010 05:42:52 +0000

Hello…
Thank you for this elegant and easy to understand explanation of Loving Kindness: that we are culitivating wishes/aspirations for ourselves (and others). I find this experience empowering and calming, and I immediately thought of one of my favorite songs by Rod Stewart: Forever Young. That song is a loving concerto of Loving Kindess. I sing it as a prayer to my daughter. You can see and hear Rod sign it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va01iUb8cTY Please…enjoy! many thanks to Rod for this Loving Kindess anthem.

By: Radish Greens - Healthy Living | Blog | Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D.: Personal Development: 2 Steps to Simpler Living

Wed, 19 May 2010 15:04:41 +0000

[...] rather than spending your mental energy hating this person, could it be possible to engage in a lovingkindness practice? In other words, wishing them well. Why would you ever do that? Good question. This practice is not [...]

By: The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion: An Interview with Christopher Germer, Ph.D. | A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook

Fri, 14 May 2010 19:06:39 +0000

[...] compassion as the wish for others to be free from suffering. That’s a little different than loving-kindness, which is the wish for others to be happy. We need to be in the presence of suffering to experience [...]

By: The Mindful Path to Self Compassion: Interview with Christopher Germer | Mindfulness and Psychotherapy

Fri, 14 May 2010 11:47:02 +0000

By: Two Steps to Simply Living a Better Life | Mindfulness and Psychotherapy

Two Steps to Simply Living a Better Life | Mindfulness and Psychotherapy — Wed, 05 May 2010 16:20:05 +0000

[...] rather than spending your mental energy hating this person, could it be possible to engage in a lovingkindness practice. In other words, wishing them well. Why would you ever do that? Good question. This practice is not [...]

By: A Mindful Response to the Haiti Relief Effort « A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:06:38 +0000

[...] We crave to be loved and to feel compassion from the time we are born to the final moments of our lives. We can give this to ourselves and it’s equally important to give it to others. In a recent post I discussed the health benefits of altruism and lovingkindness. [...]