Every one of us can cultivate, train, and naturalize these four qualities, in the same way that attention can be trained and developed. In the face of great distress, though, befriending, compassion, joy, and equanimity can disappear just when they are most needed. Today, we’re going to focus on the second of these qualities: compassion. What Does It Mean to Grow Our Compassion? What Does It Mean to Grow Our Compassion?...

C — Choose to stay open As we make the conscious choice to stay open, raw, and vulnerable, we can be brave, tender, and present to the technicolor experiences that reveal life’s texture and richness. H — Have awareness of what is unfolding, moment by moment The key to mindfulness is training ourselves to notice the details: Which thoughts are here? Which emotions? Which body sensations? As we stop trying to resist what’s coming our way, we can become scientists of our own experience—full of wonder at each new discovery....

It is worth noting, too, that this process will actually work on both mobile platforms such as Android or iOS and on desktop platforms. So whatever platform you happen to be using Spotify on, you don’t have to move individual songs to combine playlists. Or, at the very least, not one at a time. Although it is also a possibility, using the three-dot overflow menu on any single song in a playlist, that’s a hassle....

For kids, however, I like to refer to the inner critic as “The Critical Critter” to take some of the weight off. Exploring self-critical thoughts can often feel like heavy, exhausting work, so using a playful approach can help children bring a certain amount of lightness to balance out the heavy work of noticing unhelpful habits and challenging them or approaching them differently. The character of the inner critic as “Critter” helps children understand when they are being too hard on themselves and also the crucial lesson that thoughts are not facts....

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