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Mindfulness Resilience

Creating a Compassionate Heart of Resilience

Creating a compassionate heart of resilience can help to sustain us during difficult times. In times of uncertainty or difficulty, we often experience emotional pain. If we lack emotional coping skills, we may become entangled in and overwhelmed by these emotions, which may lead to increased anxiety, stress, anger, and other difficult emotions.  Mindfulness and […]

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Mindfulness Resilience

How to Be Resilient

We can be resilient in difficult times by starting with developing a resilient mindset. In difficult times, there is pain. What we do in reaction to the pain determines whether we will cope well and ride the wave of pain or become entangled in wanting things to be different and thus, create suffering for ourselves. […]

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Mindfulness and Resilience for Wellbeing

Mindfulness and Resilience are correlated, as some studies have shown. If you have a regular mindfulness practice or meditation practice, you have likely experienced the positive benefits of meditation. Mindfulness practices can help us to reduce stress, anxiety, and depression and increase a sense of peace, happiness, wellbeing, and resilience. Practicing mindfulness helps us to […]

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Mindfulness Meditation for a Calm Body, Open Heart, & Steady Mind

You can use mindfulness to cultivate a calm body, open heart, and steady mind. As you age and are exposed to increasing toxic burdens, cultivating a calm body becomes increasingly relevant to health and wellbeing. Meditation for Healing It is estimated that 90% of illness is stress related illness. Your body, heart, and brain were […]

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Poems About Resilience As Offering of Hope

Poems about resilience can evoke a sense of compassion and connection. They remind us of our sense of shared humanity, and they remind us to always look for the hope and the helpers.  Poetry can open the heart and touch the soul in a way that other ways of arranging words cannot quite reach. I’m […]

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Resilience Quotes – Maya Angelou

These resilience quotes by Maya Angelou offer a sense of hope. They serve as reminders to always connect with our authentic self, share our unique inner strengths with the world, and cultivate our own resilience in difficult times. Inspiring words about resilience offer a path to others who are seeking to become more resilient in […]

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Mindful Writing Mindfulness

Create an Intentional Life with Mindful Writing

Creating an intentional life serves as the foundation for living a life filled with meaning and purpose. You can begin to lay the groundwork to create an intentional life with mindful writing practice. When your body is relaxed, your heart open, and your mind steady from practicing mindful writing, you make space for your most […]

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Radical Compassion for Emotional Resilience

Radical compassion is a special compassion practice. Compassion is the practice of seeing, at a foundational level, the goodness of all beings and recognizing that all beings long to feel happy and at peace. Special compassion practice involves cultivating the capacity to feel in one’s heart a desire to release all beings from suffering and […]

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How to Create Emotional Resilience for Difficult Times

Emotional resilience is our ability to bounce back quickly and with relative ease during difficult times and meet future stressors with greater ease. When we experience stressful times, such as the pandemic, loss, illness, or climate related disasters, we may experience fatigue, anxiety, sadness, or overwhelm. Even in the midst of stressful times, there are things […]

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Resiliency Definition

Resiliency definition: Resiliency is the ability to be adaptable in the face of stress, to bounce back more easily and quickly following difficult events, and to be more adaptable to future stress.  There are a number of factors that may contribute to a decreased sense of resiliency, or ability to remain calm and steady during […]