Healing From Within: Recent Episodes
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practice meditation on your own or in the company of others.
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mindfulness meditation, loving-kindness meditation, mindful walking, and body scan.
In Full Catastrophe Living, Jon Kabat-Zinn writes, “As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than there is wrong, no matter how ill or how hopeless you may feel.”
This recording is provided by Dr. Paul Ritvo, Clinical Psychologist and a Mindfulness Guide at York University.
To move from aggression to unconditional loving-kindness can seem like a daunting task. But we start with what’s familiar. The instruction for cultivating limitless maitri is to first find the tenderness that we already have. We touch in with our gratitude or appreciation—our current ability to feel goodwill. In a very nontheoretical way we contact the soft spot of bodhichitta. Whether we find it in the tenderness of feeling love or the vulnerability of feeling lonely is immaterial. If we look for that soft, unguarded place, we can always find it.