I’ve had a lot of opportunity to teach metta, or “lovingkindness,” over the last two years. One thing I’m doing…
Ann Lukits, Wall Street Journal: Self-critical people were significantly kinder and more compassionate toward themselves after practicing lovingkindness meditation compared…
Kira M. Newman, GGSC: A new study suggests that experience trumps intellectual knowledge when it comes to fostering compassion. If…
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings: “To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.” What does love mean,…
Two days ago I got an email message from a friend, saying that Wildmind had been hacked. Uh, oh. It…
Recently someone asked me what she should do if she couldn't trust a person she was being kind to. In…
Anyone who has worked a set of steps either in the 12 step tradition or the 8 step model, will…
Recently Euan, whom I don't know, wrote a comment expressing his dismay at a girl turning him down because he…
Linda and Charlie Bloom, Psych Central: “Mindfulness is not something that is only done in the meditation hall, it is…
Ed Halliwell, Mindful: In my last blog, I wrote that I had been experimenting with a slightly adapted working definition…