All in Mindfulness
A growing list of free resources to help us orient towards self-care and community-care at this transformative moment.
Visionary physician Dr. Gabor Maté explores the deepest psychological, emotional and social forces leading to our society’s poor health and unhappiness. He says we have the capacity to heal both ourselves and the planet by reconnecting with our true nature as empathic, nurturing, social beings.
“One of his tools is particularly useful in helping us learn to savor the small, positive events of our day, pushing against our biological drive to preferentially attend to the negative ones. This easy and powerful tool is the simple act of writing down three things that went well during the day each evening before sleep. “
“Think of your emotions as passing clouds, visible but not a part of you.”
“Instead of mercilessly judging and criticizing yourself for various inadequacies or shortcomings, self-compassion means you are kind and understanding when confronted with personal failings – after all, who ever said you were supposed to be perfect?” – Kristen Neff