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Being Well Podcast: How to Make 2021 Your Best Year

We all have something we want to do “some day,” but for most of us “some day” just never seems to come around. Here’s how to make 2021 the year you finally put all the pieces together, and achieve the goals you’ve set for yourself.

For the New Year: The Foundations of Well-Being brings together the lessons of a lifetime of practice into one year-long online program. Our holiday sale is going on...

Meditation + Talk: Remembering Your True Home

This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 33-minute guided meditation and 48-minute talk and discussion.

I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join my free Wednesday Meditations – open to everyone!

Meditation: Remembering Your True Home

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Avoid The Rush

What’s the hurry?

The Practice:

Avoid the rush.

Why?

As I was meditating one morning, our cat hopped up on to my lap. It felt sweet to sit there with him. And yet – even though I was feeling fine and had plenty of time, there was this internal pressure to start zipping along with emails and calls and all the other clamoring minutiae of the day.

You see the irony. We rush about as a means to an end: as a method for getting results in the form of good experiences, such as relaxation and happiness....

Being Well Podcast: Facing Your Dreaded Experience

We all have things in life that scare us. Some of us are scared of spiders, or earthquakes, or the dark – as Forrest was as a child. Most of these things we can push back against, or do our best to avoid. We can squish a spider – though I’m generally an advocate for trying to rescue them when possible – or we can turn on a night light.

Then there are other, more personal fears. Maybe a fear of ...

Meditation + Talk: A Powerful Simple Way to Stay Rested in the Heart

This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 35-minute guided meditation and 50-minute talk and discussion.

I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join my free Wednesday Meditations – open to everyone!

Meditation: A Powerful Simple Way to Stay Rested in the Heart

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Twelve Good Things 2020

Each year I use an issue of the Just One Thing newsletter to offer Twelve Good Things that I think are really wonderful and worth your attention.

May you and those you love and in fact the whole wide world be truly well, truly happy, and truly at peace

UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center is a world-class resource for compassion, parenting, and positive psychology – including their Greater Good Magazine.
Two causes that are near and dear to me are aided by Amnesty International an...

Meditation + Talk: Knowing How Deeply Our Lives Are Intertwined

This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 35-minute guided meditation and 49-minute talk and discussion, with guest teacher Leslie Booker.

Known as “Booker,” she brings her heart and wisdom to the intersection of Dharma, Embodied Wisdom, and Social Justice. She shares her expertise nationally on expanding our vision around culturally responsive teaching, and changing the paradigm of self and community care.

Booker is a graduate of the 2020 Spirit Rock Retreat Teacher Training, is a 2020...

Being Well Podcast: Compassion, Power, and Human Nature with Dr. Dacher Keltner

Does power corrupt? Where does compassion come from? And do positive or negative emotions serve as the basis for our true nature? Today we’re exploring these questions with a world-class expert on emotion, power, and morality: Dr. Dacher Keltner.

About Our Guest: Dr. Keltner is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he directs the Berkeley Social Interaction ...

Being Well Podcast: What Did We Learn From 2020?

Its been a long, strange, challenging year. As we get toward the end of it, and look forward to 2021, it feels appropriate to start by taking a look back and seeing what, if anything, we can learn from the year thats gone by. 

Support the Podcast: Were on Patreon! If youd like to support the podcast, follow this link.

Key Topics:

2:30: The importance of internal resources.

4:15: It can happen to us too.

6:00: Putting more effort into whats local.

8:30:...

Meditation + Talk: The Perfection of Patience

This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 34-minute guided meditation and 47-minute talk and discussion.

I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join my free Wednesday Meditations open to everyone!

Meditation: Making The Perfection of Patience

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These teachings are...