Bringing Heart and Wisdom to Life's Challenges
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Psychotherapist Robert Strock discusses how beneficial it would be for spiritual teachers to share their own struggles and model how they helped guide themselves with their own teachings.
When you are frightened or feeling really anxious while reading the news about the coronavirus epidemic, the key in situations like this is to be aware of and allow whatever feelings are there. Recognize these feelings are perfectly natural given the circumstances, be as kind and accepting of yourself as possible, and ask, “What thoughts … Read more
Extreme black and white thinking about socialism or anti-socialism is imbalanced. Of course we need socialistic elements like Medicare and social security. We also need to have the potentiating of a free market to give maximum individual incentive and to create a balance. If we could look to find the optimal balance we would be … Read more
The first guided meditation from Robert Strock’s book, Awareness that Heals, helps you maintain awareness of a challenging emotion in order to have a chance to have a healing influence on yourself.
In the first four chapters, we explored awareness that heals, friendly mind, moving from self-rejection toward self-compassion and inquiry. All of them, especially inquiry, can help us access our wisdom guidance and persevere when access is difficult. To define it from a different perspective, our wisdom guidance frames in word and tone the message that … Read more
Discover the part of you that wants to care about yourself while you are feeling emotionally challenged. Awareness That Heals Chapter 1 Meditation #2.
Robert Strock and Shelley Pearce talk about how “friendly mind” differs from positive thinking, conventional thinking, and negative thinking.
Inquiry can go on intermittently for days in the background of your mind and heart when you are really interested in exploring a specific part of your life. When this happens, you want to be sure that you keep the same positive focus of questioning where it is clear that you are looking to support … Read more
This guided meditation helps you explore the relationship between courage and fear and how to transform it to be able to reside primarily in your courage.
