A 10-Minute Gratitude Practice to Notice, Shift, and Rewire A 10-Minute Gratitude Practice to Notice, Shift, and Rewire Audio recorded by Priti Patel. READ MORE READ MORE Mindful Staff September 21, 2022 Glenn Fox June 10, 2019 Amber Tucker December 13, 2019

I want to talk about the concept of self-compassion. Self-compassion is different than self-esteem. There seems to be this epidemic of self-judgment in the world, where people are often self-critical and have a lot of self-hating voices in their heads. Self-compassion is not the build up of self-esteem, because the build up of self-esteem tends to lead people to needing a lot of external validation to feel ok. Instead, self-compassion is the idea that even with all of our flaws, we can still care about ourselves, that we can make mistakes, that we can screw up, that we can have problems, but we’re still fundamentally a good human being....

Full stop. Though the Guardian article went on to provide more nuance, the reading public sees seven years of complex painstaking work by a large group of dedicated people reduced to a single conclusion in a headline. That is what is to be expected. As the old newspaper saying goes, “If it bleeds, it leads.” When results are simplified to this degree, though, it helps if we can remember to dive deeper to see the specifics of what was studied, and what continues to be learned as a result....

Barry, I feel that boredom is such a rich topic for a writer and for a meditator, and you start by writing about those long afternoons of childhood. And I feel like I can summon one of those up right now, forty-five years later. “Mom, I’m bored.” I know why boredom and thinking about it is important to me. But why was boredom on your agenda to write about? Barry Boyce: Well, the Point of View is really about looking at the intersection between life and meditation and mindfulness practice....

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