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15 Affirmations for Practicing Acceptance and Tolerance
Acceptance and tolerance leads to inner and outer peace. Let’s make it our business to practice a little more acceptance for the holidays and for the new year.
4 Tips to Practice Acceptance During the Holidays
Accepting, observing, and experiencing a different family culture as you would another country's may change your perspective.
9 Things You Might Assume Are Your Fault, But Aren't
When blaming yourself for your own suffering becomes a core belief.
Acceptance as a Tool for Dealing with Unpleasant Emotions
From the book Rock and Water: The Power of Thought; The Peace of Letting Go
Book Review: Walking Through Anger
Conte’s approach hinges on the principle of Yield Theory: the idea that anger is best defused when we meet other people where they are, as opposed to where we would like them to be.
Embracing Our Flaws
Instead of hiding who we are, we have to embrace the broken times and faults that make us beautiful.
Finding Home in the Moment
Psychotherapist Kevin Anderson answers questions from S&H readers. “I keep trying to figure out where I should move, but I feel stuck and unable to make a decision.”
Got Compassion?
Let’s skip the judgment and step into love. Sometimes when I speak to people of the importance of compassion, I see a look in their eyes that I interpret as, Why? All day long we …
Holding Death Close
“Holding death close serves as a continuous, gentle reminder that every moment I am alive is a special but limited opportunity.”
How to Break the Spell of Fear
When you take control, you break fear’s spell. The concept is simple, but is difficult to accomplish because fear is the ultimate enabler. I saw that clearly when I went blind.
It Is What It Is: How to Return to Neutrality
A reminder from a great blue heron: Cultivating neutrality begins with acceptance of what is.
Let’s Talk About Death
Excerpted from Let’s Talk About Death: Asking the Questions that Profoundly Change the Way We Live and Die
Paying Attention to Judgmental Thoughts
Excerpted from Says Who?: How Asking One Simple Question Can Change How You Think Forever by Ora Nadrich
Spirituality and Dying
“I don’t want to romanticize dying, but I do want to liberate it from the fears we foist upon it.”
The Antidote to Toxic Positivity
Difficult emotions are there for a reason. There is one cure for toxic positivity.
The Grass Is Greener Where You Water It
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” —Theodore Roosevelt Here’s a funny story: a new age thinker died and went to heaven. Upon entering the pearly gates, he saw tw…
