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Mindfulness is a path to giving others the five A’s, the essential components of love, respect, and support. The word mindfulness is a translation of Sanskrit words meaning “attend” and “stay.” Thus, we pay attention and we stay with someone in her feelings and in her here-and-now predicament. When I accept someone in this serene way, shifts occur
... See moreDavid Richo • How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving
Our meta-thoughts reveal where and how we think we are broken and what are our fantasies of being fixed or cured. These curative fantasies make up the core of what I call our secret practice. Becoming clear about our secret practice is the only path to true practice.
Barry Magid • Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide
To break free from such a tangle involves first of all letting go of the following illusions: 1. I am a solid identity separate from everything else around me. This duality is visible only to ego. As I progress in consciousness, I enjoy another perspective (that of my spiritual Self) which sees only unity and the marriage of apparent opposites. The
... See moreDavid Richo • How to Be an Adult: A Handbook on Psychological and Spiritual Integration
In allowing yourself to meet your own needs, try to get to the bottom of them by seeking the source of the needs rather than staying at the symptomatic level.
Ceanne DeRohan • Right Use of Will: Healing and Evolving the Emotional Body
The moment we bless our human encounters with the responsibility inherent in consciously navigating our life experiences, by working causally with the emotional body and seeing the miracle of this, we are ready to begin curbing our endless thinking and anal-eyes-ing. Then we are ready to accept that the mental body is a bridge to be crossed, a
... See moreMichael Brown • Alchemy of the Heart
creativity, courage, curiosity, a sense of connection, compassion, clarity, calm, confidence.
Ph.D. Richard Schwartz • No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
The intimacy in a self-transforming marriage
The image of an adult relationship that is genuinely intimate- sex-ually, but in every other respect as well-brings to light again the theme of reciprocity first seen in the interpersonal balance. Traveling once more over familiar psychological terrain, the evolution of mean-ing, in the interindividual
... See moreThe five A’s, like the food groups, are not arbitrary. Each of them is a specific and necessary building block of our psychological makeup. If one is missing, we feel the deficiency, and a part of us suffers. Here is how each A contributes to our psychological health: Attention is necessary so that we can be known. This makes it possible for us to
... See moreDavid Richo • How to Be an Adult in Love: Letting Love in Safely and Showing It Recklessly
Mindfulness is an elegant Buddhist practice that brings our bare attention to what is going on in the here and now. It does this by freeing us of our mental habit of entertaining ourselves with ego-based fears, desires, expectations, evaluations, attachments, biases, defenses, and so on.