Articles
Written reflections from Robert Strock and the Awareness That Heals community.
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Confronting Impossible Standards with Friendly Mind
Robert Strock and Shelley Pearce talk about how “friendly mind” can confront the most common irrational standards that can affect our mood throughout the day.
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Botham Jean’s Neighbor, a Key Witness in Amber Guyger Trial, Shot to Death in Dallas
Deeply tragic. Such a horrible symptom of a culture that still is loaded with bigotry and violence. What can each of us do to support less violence? It seems the first thing is to realize that virtually all of us have anger that we underestimate that is inside us. That would be a major contribution
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Poverty is Down — But Concerns About Homelessness Remain Up
Those of us that are able to take care of our livelihood need to open our hearts, wallets and minds to help develop alternatives for the homeless. It is important that we not trivialize the homeless and believe that they are unworthy of our help. This means we will have to create intentional communities eventually
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Cultivating Friendly Mind – Part 1
In this series, we take a look at one of the eight key practices for navigating life’s challenges that are explored in my new book, Awareness That Heals. How often have you found yourself feeling bad or thinking about yourself in a critical way and thought, “I wish I knew what I could do to
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Accessing Awareness that Heals – Part 3
Existing only with an Intellectual Awareness almost inevitably leaves us feeling like we are caught in a dead end of painful feelings—and we can’t see a way out. Because this level doesn’t actually lead to any significant healing, it is no wonder that we might have a tendency to turn away from these feelings or
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Accessing Awareness that Heals – Part 2
Starting with the Dilemma In this series, we take a look at one of the eight key practices for navigating life’s challenges that are explored in my new book, Awareness That Heals. For more, order the book today and receive a 10% new release discount and free shipping. Here is one way my clients have
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Hand on Heart Guided Meditation for Anger
Will I take the time today to create a safe space to be more aware of and harmlessly feel my resistance and anger, and infuse it with kindness?
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The Six Principles of Friendly Mind
Robert Strock and Shelley Pearce talk about the principles for developing a friendlier mind.
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The Indivisible Project
The Indivisible Project’s mission is to cultivate a grassroots movement of literally thousands of local Indivisible groups to elect progressive leaders, realize bold progressive policies, rebuild our democracy, and defeat the Trump agenda. I’m honored to be supporting Indivisible with fundraisers through The Global Bridge Foundation and for Indivisible founder Ezra Levin for endorsing Awareness
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Trump Pushed Ukraine to Investigate Joe Biden, Transcript Shows
Trump also asked the Ukrainian leader to work with his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and US Attorney General William Barr on the issue, the call transcript reveals It is so important that we break our level of denial and see that close to half our country really believes that our president is within his rights