
difficult emotions

When despairing thoughts about climate collapse become overwhelming, try turning towards feeling.

Sitting with the Things I Came to Practice to Get Away From
How my spiritual practice deepened when I finally stopped trying to suppress, push away, and deny the pain in my life

Meditation Meditation Month 2023
The Power of the Third Moment
The look you gave the driver who cut you off. The email you shouldn't have sent. There's an effective way to avoid acting on your worst emotions.

A Fierce and Tender Clarity
When it comes to working with anger, the only way out is through.

We Are Held by What We Cannot See
No matter how off-kilter you feel, you are standing in a place of perfectly balanced forces.

There Are No Words in My Body
How the four foundations of mindfulness can help us practice with—and diffuse—difficult emotions

Turning Emotions Into Wisdom
Inside the Rubin Museum’s new Mandala Lab

Overcoming Difficult Emotions in a Chaotic World
The Buddha emphasized the need to cultivate an inner peace that is independent from external conditions. Bhante Buddharakkhita, who leads an emergent Theravada Buddhist community in his home country of Uganda, will guide us through mindfulness…

Why Grief Is A Series of Contractions and Expansions
A Zen priest and bereavement educator explains the importance of sticking with our pain and other difficult emotions so we can come out on the other side.

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