Articles
Written reflections from Robert Strock and the Awareness That Heals community.
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Developing Wisdom Guidance
In the first four chapters, we explored awareness that heals, friendly mind, moving from self-rejection toward self-compassion and inquiry. All of them, especially inquiry, can help us access our wisdom guidance and persevere when access is difficult. To define it from a different perspective, our wisdom guidance frames in word and tone the message that
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Understanding Healing Awareness
Discover the part of you that wants to care about yourself while you are feeling emotionally challenged. Awareness That Heals Chapter 1 Meditation #2.
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How Friendly Mind is Different than Other Approaches
Robert Strock and Shelley Pearce talk about how “friendly mind” differs from positive thinking, conventional thinking, and negative thinking.
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Inquiring from the Heart – Part 3
Inquiry can go on intermittently for days in the background of your mind and heart when you are really interested in exploring a specific part of your life. When this happens, you want to be sure that you keep the same positive focus of questioning where it is clear that you are looking to support
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Inquiring from the Heart – Part 2
Inquiry from the heart is essential because, if we make this practice part of our lives, it is one of the key ways to focus our awareness in the direction of our own healing and fulfillment. It can also alert us when we are not heading in a healing direction. When we develop awareness that
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Fear and Courage
This guided meditation helps you explore the relationship between courage and fear and how to transform it to be able to reside primarily in your courage.
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Australia’s devastating fires are still burning. Here’s how you can help.
The best way each of us can help with the fires is to recognize that we are all interconnected with Global Warming and therefore all of our actions matter. Look at the side of yourself when you think, “Well, I’m only one person, so what difference does it make if I get an electric car,
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Inquiring from the Heart – Part 1
Although most of us already ask ourselves questions about how we might make positive changes in our lives, those questions are often asked in ways that do not support us and do not bring healing. They can be expressed with a negative edge like, “Why aren’t you making more progress?” or “Why are you stuck
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Using Friendly Mind When Your Feel the Worst
Robert Strock and Shelley Pearce discuss how “friendly mind” can steer you in a neutral — and sometimes playful — way to find the thoughts that are most helpful to you.
