The author shares how the advice of five Buddhist teachers inspires him to view even the most ordinary parts of daily life as spiritual practice.
The author’s frustration with parenting a teenager becomes an occasion to apply the Emotional Rescue Method to working with experiences of intense fear, grief and anger.
The author shares insights gained through challenging the ego’s best arguments, and offers a contemplation exercise to try.
An editor discovers what it really means to her to collaborate in service of a common cause, and offers an exercise to try.
On receiving notice of a breast cancer diagnosis, the author works with the mind’s reactive thoughts and finds relief in present moment awareness. Included are steps for working with any moment of strong fear or anger.
The author contemplates the challenge of truly relaxing amidst a busy life, and shares some favorite ways to respond creatively to physical and mental stress.
