You Can Only Do What You Can Do
A reflection and practice on generating loving-kindness and compassion when dealing with difficult people
Kimberly Brown
Kimberly Brown is a meditation teacher and author. She works with individuals and groups to share the power of compassion and kindness meditation to reconnect us to ourselves and others. She studies in both the Tibetan and Insight schools of Buddhism and is a certified mindfulness instructor. Her latest book, Happy Relationships: 25 Buddhist Practices to Transform Your Connection with Your Partner, Family, and Friends, was released this year by Prometheus Books. You can learn more about her at www.meditationwithheart.com.
Navigating Conflict in Relationships
How mindfulness and patience can help us to transform our anger and cultivate healthier connections
TeachingsMagazine | In Brief, Teachings
Everyone Is Your Teacher
A brief teaching on seeing the Buddha in others
Overwhelmed? Pay Attention
Choosing to direct our mindfulness and compassion to other living beings can help us deeply connect with everyone’s struggles and suffering—including our own.
Loving-Kindness for Control Freaks
A practice for letting go of our illusion of control and relaxing into the present moment
Calling on the Buddhas
In a recent episode of Life As It Is, meditation teacher Kimberly Brown discusses how she learned to ask for help following her mother’s death.
Want to Change Someone Else’s Mind? Try This Instead.
Though you may not be able to change the way someone thinks or feels, you may be able to affect the outcome of their choices, and help create conditions for everyone to flourish.
What You’re Not Doing Matters
Making the choice to use restraint and self-discipline is equally as powerful as taking action—if not more so.
Living Your Real Best Life
A practice for true contentment, abiding happiness, and deep appreciation for what you have and who you are.
Podcasts
Planting the Seeds of Happy Relationships
Meditation teacher Kimberly Brown discusses how we can cultivate and maintain healthy relationships with the people who matter most to us.
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Navigating Grief and Loss
In this episode of Life As It Is, meditation teacher Kimberly Brown lays out concrete tools to help us become better friends to ourselves as we grieve.
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Length: 51:11
Dharma Talks
In It Together: Kindness through Crisis
After more than a year of social distancing, many of us continue to struggle in our day-to-day routines. Be it loneliness, grief, impatience, or frustration with family or roommates, Kimberly Brown encourages us to greet all…
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