Companies like Amazon and Google present mindfulness as a secular technology for stress relief. But authentic Buddhism cannot be harmed.
Mindfulness
adrienne maree brown reflects on the lessons they’ve learned authoring this column for the past year, and lays out a path for what’s to come.
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“My journeys in nature have been profound experiences of Black people coming together to cultivate healing, community, and joy.”
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An attitude of gratitude may relieve stress, which in turn may lead to better health.
How mindfulness can help balance the toil of farm life.
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An approach to examining systems, navigating emotional distress, and increasing social harmony.
“Rather than letting our relationship with nature extinguish itself during the cold, wet, dark days, we need to take special care to keep it kindled.”
Thich Nhat Hanh, who taught mindfulness for decades, approached death in that same spirit.
Learning from other languages and cultures of gratitude, perhaps Americans can make “thank you” less casual and more heartfelt.
An Indigenous writer describes how ritual is the entryway to connection and wholeness.
These daily actions can help heal your nervous system for right action instead of reaction.
In her new book, beloved comics artist Lynda Barry encourages your inner storyteller.
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Be it through mutual aid, healing circles, grief rituals, or direct actions, we grow our resilience when we gather with the intention of holding one another’s wholeness.
A weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad.
This year, many people will have Passover Seder over the internet rather than in the physical company of friends and family.
A weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad.
Just because we cannot be physically present in each other’s lives doesn’t mean we have to lose our sense of kinship and interdependence.
SANE stands for strong, active, neighborly, and energetic.
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