Working with Emotions
How to identify disturbing emotions, their causes and antidotes, and transform them to bring inner peace.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Giving up the blame game
How to stop blaming ourselves and others for our problems, develop a broader view of…
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No need to fake it: Developing true self-confidence
Our good qualities, the basic purity of our mind and inborn potential, are the basis…
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Push and pull of emotional life
An Interview with Venerable Thubten Chodron and Travis Newbill from the Science of Meditation free…
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Genuine self-confidence
Self-confidence is the opposite of self-centeredness. As women, we should be secure in our commitments…
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Cultivating happiness and contentment
Happiness comes from a mind free from disturbing emotions. not from external things. Cultivating a…
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Examining our expectations of others
With a realistic view of others—friends and family and coworkers—we can avoid disappointment and conflict,…
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Becoming friends with ourselves
Through self-acceptance we can treat ourselves with kindness and compassion, and see that we have…
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Three types of emotion and their influence
The threat system, the drive system and the safeness system from the psychological and Buddhist…
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Getting a handle on anger
If we can be calm with an attitude of compassion in conflicts, then there's a…
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Connecting with others with an open heart
By opening our heart we can connect to others in a meaningful and healthy way…
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Comparing the Buddhist and scientific views of emotions
A look at two viewpoints on the source of disturbing emotions, how they cause problems,…
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How our emotions impact our mind
Understanding how emotions impact the mind helps us work with disturbing emotions and positive emotions.…
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