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Skillful Means: Ecotherapy
Your Skillful Means, sponsored by the Wellspring Institute, is designed to be a comprehensive resource for people interested in personal growth, overcoming inner obstacles, being helpful to others, and expanding consciousness. It includes instructions in everything from common psychological tools for dealing with negative self talk, to physical exercises for…
Working with the Many Flavors of the Worrying Mind
How to “A.C.T.” and Other Strategies to Bring Ease © 2022 Beth Kurland, PhD In late November of 2021 when I woke up to the news of another variant of “potential great concern” that might evade present vaccines, my heart began to sink, and I started experiencing that familiar tension…
Skillful Means: Using RAIN
Your Skillful Means, sponsored by the Wellspring Institute, is designed to be a comprehensive resource for people interested in personal growth, overcoming inner obstacles, being helpful to others, and expanding consciousness. It includes instructions in everything from common psychological tools for dealing with negative self talk, to physical exercises for…
Uncertainty: Friend, Foe or a Door to New Possibilities?
© 2022 Anat Baniel The sense of predictability in the daily flow of our lives is essential to our ability to function. When walking down the street, as we place one foot in front of the other on the sidewalk, we expect there to be a solid ground. When having…
Skillful Means: Identifying Personal Values
Your Skillful Means, sponsored by the Wellspring Institute, is designed to be a comprehensive resource for people interested in personal growth, overcoming inner obstacles, being helpful to others, and expanding consciousness. It includes instructions in everything from common psychological tools for dealing with negative self talk, to physical exercises for…
Tuolumne Triple
© 2022 Roddy McCalley I wake with the sun, sky turning light behind a canopy of pines. Dan and Michelle are still in their sleeping bags. Leaving quietly, I drive to Tenaya Lake, park and head up the trail. Sun still behind the mountain, but almost immediately I am warm….
Skillful Means: Self-Inquiry
Your Skillful Means, sponsored by the Wellspring Institute, is designed to be a comprehensive resource for people interested in personal growth, overcoming inner obstacles, being helpful to others, and expanding consciousness. It includes instructions in everything from common psychological tools for dealing with negative self talk, to physical exercises for…
The Most Important Relationship in Your Life
© 2021 Jeremy Lent You meet an old friend in the grocery store. She’s telling you about her difficult time at a company that she’s finally left. “I was pushing myself way too hard,” she tells you. “It was wild. I’d accept unrealistic projects from my boss and then hate…
Skillful Means: Lectio Divina / Holy Reading / Scriptural Meditation
Your Skillful Means, sponsored by the Wellspring Institute, is designed to be a comprehensive resource for people interested in personal growth, overcoming inner obstacles, being helpful to others, and expanding consciousness. It includes instructions in everything from common psychological tools for dealing with negative self talk, to physical exercises for…
Pocketful Of Miracles
© 2021 Joan Borysenko PhD Excerpted from Pocketful of Miracles: Prayers, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year, by Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. Reprinted with permission from Balance Books, an imprint of the Hachette Book Group, Inc. Boston and New York. “The miracle that this book…