Reframing Our World
When it comes to trauma, many misunderstand the true meaning of forgiveness. How can you forgive, move forward, and thrive? Discover the secrets to post-traumatic thriving.
Empathy and compassion, for ourselves and others.
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When it comes to trauma, many misunderstand the true meaning of forgiveness. How can you forgive, move forward, and thrive? Discover the secrets to post-traumatic thriving.
“Pain can turn our world and our internal compass upside down and shove us into darkness. Simultaneously, however, pain can shock us or catapult us out of everyday autopilot.”
Kindness isn't just being nice—it's a superpower.
Listening with empathy allows you to deepen your relationships with loved ones and strangers alike.
Address your spiritual wounds with the traditional Hawaiian cleansing practice of ho'oponopono of taking responsibility and seeking absolution.
Dilip Jeste, MD, offers ideas for increasing wisdom through empathy, compassion, and belief.
Empathy and non-judgment lie at the heart of the therapeutic experience. “Strength and brokenness are not opposites.”
A political candidate's character matters just as much, if not more than their policy proposals and political philosophies.
Is a yawn simply a silent scream for coffee or is it something more? Understand why yawning is a spiritual practice, and how you can include more of it in your daily routine.
“Azim is a living example of how goodwill can lead, eventually, to peace: He found it in his heart to forgive the person who murdered his son. After extending this extraordinary act of forgiveness, Azim began a journey to promote the power of compassion, forgiveness, and restorative justice.”
Maggie the Wunderdog was shot, attacked, and left for dead, but, thanks to a rescuer, survived, is thriving—and is loving. Here are four lessons on forgiveness rescue dogs like Maggie teach us.
“Learning about and trying to practice a form of restorative justice can help you work toward self-forgiveness.”
Leaning how to have real conversations about important topics with people you disagree with is a skill. These days, it's more important than ever. Diane Hamilton, Gabriel Wilson, and Kimberly Loh offer useful advice and powerful stories in their new book Compassionate Conversations.
Difficult conversations are a powerful time to learn to handle strong emotions. It's not an easy practice, but it is worth the effort.
Time doesn’t heal all wounds. Here is how to address what still nags at you, and to finally right those long-standing hurts.
There's a crucial difference between a positive outlook and toxic positivity: "It’s very easy to become so focused on staying positive that you end up denying any and all negative experiences."
S&H's Stephen Kiesling sat down with Tara Brach, founder and senior teacher of the Insight Meditation Center of Washington and author of Radical Acceptance, to explore her RAIN practice: Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture.
Getting together with family, especially during the holidays, can cause a lot of stress and anxiety—even if it’s all love. In this week’s The Soul of Therapy, psychologist Kevin Anderson, PhD, gives us the tools to cope.
We all have a tendency to divide things into categories: “us” and “them,” “right” and “wrong,” “worthy” and “unworthy.”
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.
Rabbi Rami explains why he encourages everyone to take part in asking for forgiveness during Elul, whether they practice Judaism or not.
“Becoming clear on what is our problem and what is someone else’s is revolutionary.”
Kevin Anderson offers a call to action: My membership in the human race is my truest belonging.
“Empathy will not heal the hurt world overnight, but can at least make life more interesting. Try these strategies.”
"I worry sometimes that outrage, even when completely justified, can blind us to spiritual values such as forgiveness and compassion, and that fury can drive us to sacrifice offenders on the altar of social change rather than treat them as individuals with the capacity to learn, grow, and reform."
"How many of us have entered a doctor’s office only to be met by an unemotional individual with very little time for us who mostly stares into a computer screen?"
Release the guilt and be free.
In this guided meditation, take a true self reflection of gazing into yourself with love.
Adapted from The Way of Grace: The Transforming Power of Ego Relaxation, by Miranda Macpherson.
Clearing unwanted energy from our system is one of the most important things you can learn, especially when doing Reiki.
7 Neuroscience-Based Keys for Transforming the Way We Live, Love, Work, and Connect Across Differences
Establish a new beginning with a refreshed outlook that can help you in your quest to release the past and embrace forgiveness.
Gentleness with ourselves and our others sometimes means pushing back.
A 3-step approach to cultivating compassion and overcoming empathic sensitivity.
An audio meditation to open our understanding of our different voices.
How to cultivate and strengthen our capacity for kindness and compassion.
The willingness to face suffering can give rise to compassion.
Feeling like you might throttle someone? Try these tactics instead.
Excerpt from the book More Beautiful Than Before: How Suffering Transforms Us.
Use this guided meditation as a way to practice listening softly through the lens of your heart.
Being an empath is all about ‘feeling’ the emotions of others. Sometimes we need extra tools to help us stay grounded and connected.
The life of a community depends on how we care for the ground we stand on and how we step lightly, walking side by side.
"In Buddhism, we often talk about enlightenment or awakening, but words like that feel far away to me. I speak about intimacy."
(We're reposting our interview with Frank Ostaseski from 2017 after we received news that he's recovering from a stroke. Our thoughts are with him and his loved ones.)
Here are five self-love exercises to incorporate into your weekly routine.
As caregivers, we need to be more than problem solvers. We need to be portals to a larger possibility.
Caring is a natural expression of our humanity.
Sometimes, the nicest thing we can do for someone is to make them feel bad.
How Loving God Helps Us Become Better People
This key tool is employed, often unwittingly, by exceptional teachers, health care practitioners, clergy, and devoted guardians or parents.
3 steps to get you healthy, grounded, and empowered to create a compassion revolution and save the world.
Does it ever seem like you’re crying for no reason? Does watching a sad movie cause you to break into spontaneous crying? You may be an empath.
We think we’re alone, but the largest hidden population in our society is the closet authentics.
Excerpted from Ordinary Goodness
Not only do animals live, they have lives—with “undiluted purity and clarity…”
Excerpt from Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver
Cellphones may cause a lack of empathy.
Here are eight ways to shift your thoughts to develop deeper empathy and help raise the vibration of our world.
Excerpt from The Missing Element: Inspiring Compassion for Human Condition
An excerpt from Overcoming Destructive Anger by Bernard Golden, PhD.
Is it possible to forgive infidelity and to overcome the emotional pain of betrayal?
Excerpt from The Intelligent Heart
An excerpt from How the Art of Medicine Makes the Science More Effective: Becoming the Medicine We Practice
Try the difficult path to enlightenment
Excerpted from The Power of Forgiveness by Joan Gattuso
Here are some affirmations to help wash away the pain of resentment to a more loving, healthier, fresher, lighter, cleaner and joyful life.
An excerpt from The Light Between Us
Help for the overstimulated
The Evolution of Empathy, Altruism, and Even the Soul
Excerpted from Grow: Stories from the Urban Food Movement
How loving-kindness meditation taps the roots of empathy
Nature endowed humanity with both revenge and forgiveness as tools of conflict resolution. But why does one seem so much harder than the other?
An excerpt from Empathy: Why it Matters and How to Get It
Self-esteem is the practice of seeing yourself as above average. And in a world that's constantly comparing, keeping a high level of self-esteem may feel more like a challenge than a relief.
The secret to empowered action is learning not to beat yourself up.
To become more forgiving, we first need to understand why we crave revenge.
New studies find that getting lost in a good novel actually makes us more empathetic in real life.
By letting go of past hurts, we can heal not only ourselves, but our families, our communities, and our world.
The ideal spiritual practice fosters compassion, justice, love, and a sense of unity.
Rabbi Rami shares his personal practice for elevating awareness and compassion to bring thoughts, actions, and values into alignment.
The faith and spirituality expert shares her insight into the unifying practice of compassion.
Tips to become depression-proof, because misery does love company.
We're a culture of addicts, says Canadian physician Gabor Maté, whose controversial ideas just might heal us all.
Therapists Seana McGee and Maurice Taylor explain the dark side of compassion.
The capacity to forgive reveals a soul that is free of anxiety, one that is mature and equal to the complexity of human interaction.
As any detective knows, when something is missing that should be present, a void where there should be a plenum, it is an important clue. Like the archetypal philosophical detective Socrates, I set out to discover what had happened to justice. Had it disappeared from modern minds, hearts, and conversation? Or merely from the consciousness of New Age pilgrims?
Everett Worthington taught others how to forgive. One night, he had to become his own best pupil.