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I am trying to learn how to stop feeling my children’s feelings. Today at the end of a challenging basketball game, which our side lost, I was working vigilantly to bear witness to my daughter’s frustration without feeling it. When I mentioned that I was trying to stop feeling my daughter’s feelings to another mother, she said: “Good luck- let me know how that works for you…” I am not alone in...

Discover a healthy and inspiring new way to view yourself and your life through Kristin Neff’sgroundbreaking research on self compassion. Find a new stability with your sense of self by making small but significant shifts in how you think about self esteem and the courage to care for yourself when facing challenging times. Learning to offer compassion to yourself is one of the ground breaking...

“One day a monk spoke bitterly to the Buddha. All he wanted to talk about was the unbearable sorrows of the world. The Buddha remained silent while the monk talked, then a faint smile appeared on his face. He pointed to the ground below his feet and said,“On this earth I have attained awakening.” -Buddhist Mondo

It is easy to become bitter by the weight of so much unresolved sorrow in life. I...

Self-compassion can actually enhance all of your relationship. Dr. Kristen Neff, author of “Self-Compassion – Stop Beating Yourself Up” shares techniques for cultivating a practice of self-compassion. TheOpeningDoor.org to listen to the full interview Saturday.

“The chains of habits are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”   -Samuel Johnson

To a large extent we are what we do every day. To an even larger extent, the human experience is a habitual one. This is why it isn’t that surprising that for the majority of us, even our thoughts are habitual. I have read that as much as 95% of our some 60,000 thoughts that fill our...

Start the new year by Reclaiming your Sexual Self. Devi Ward is a true tantric with the devotion and experience to guide you back to a comforting and passionate relationship to your erotic self. She has mastered the complexity of tantra and is able to communicate it effectively and clearly into The 5 Elements of Sensual Self-Expression and TantraFit, which will help you reclaim your full sexual...

“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”   -Fyodor Dostoevsky

As I read the caption “disgraced” under Lance Armstrong’s photo documenting the interview of him finally...