After sitting and walking meditation, we watched a video featuring Lama Tsultrim Allione. In it, she explores a very different way to work with difficult emotions, called Feeding Your Demons:

Anything that drains our energy and blocks us from being completely awake is a demon. The approach of...

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We read part of an article by Norm Fischer, titled Life is Tough - Here are Six Ways to Deal With It. It examines ways we can train our mind to be more skillful with the difficulties in our lives:

While trying to avoid difficulty may be natural and understandable, it actually doesn’t work. We...

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We mixed up our usual schedule up a bit this week, starting with a 15 minute meditation and then reading a short article on one of the four foundations of mindfulness: mindfulness of body. Here is part of what Shambhala founder Chogyam Trungpa wrote:

Mindfulness plays a very important role in th...

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We watched a TED talk by Daniel Kahneman after meditation. The subject was the difference in the way we experience happiness, and the way we remember it. Here's a bit from that talk:

We actually don't choose between experiences, we choose between memories of experiences. And even when we think...

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