We are mostly responsible for most of our intense emotions. They arise each day from patterns we reinforced over a lifetime of distracted flame-fanning. Claiming responsibility for our most intense emotions takes courage, because claiming responsibility for intense emotions means being alone with those emotions, but in this conscious solitude we can also claim responsibility … Continue reading For Myself and Others

Good morning. We can practice compassion for people who have upset us to help our feelings move on, but sometimes specifying a subject solidifies an individual in our minds, possibly an individual who we will never actually meet again. In this case, it's better to broaden the subject so something that includes the individual of … Continue reading For all the Managers and Co-Workers I’ve worked with

Today is a good day for the base-compassion-practice. Let's think about line 7, sympathy, and what feeling for a sufferer means, when it helps, and when more complex forms of compassion are needed: I practice compassion With compassion, I free myself and others from sufferingWith compassion, I help myself and others find peace and feel … Continue reading For Myself and Others