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Meditation

Coping with Coronavirus Stress and Anxiety

March 24, 2020 by Dr Jennifer Hartman

Life in the time of coronavirus. We are living through a remarkably stressful time, with global scope and interventions unlike any health crisis we have ever seen. With so many rapid changes occurring related to the COVID-19 pandemic, many people are understandably feeling anxious and stressed.

Filed Under: Anxiety, Blog, Breath Work, Emotions, Exercise, Meditation, Mindfulness, Self-care, Self-compassion, Stress Resilience Tagged With: Anxiety, coronavirus, coronavirus anxiety, coronavirus stress, stress, stress resilience

Holding Mind in Mind: A Mindful Mentalization-Based Skill to Improve Relationships

April 27, 2018 by Dr Jennifer Hartman

Have you ever tried to hold someone else’s mind in your mind? Let’s do it together right now. Imagine that one of your good friends or close family members is having a good day. Maybe they had a big success at work, maybe they got a good report from their doctor, or maybe they just had one of those days where everything seems to go smoothly—ahhh, those days are nice when they come along, right?

Filed Under: Blog, Compassion, Meditation, Mindfulness, Relationships, Wellbeing, Wellness Tagged With: Compassion, Meditation, Mentalizing, Mind in mind, Mindfulness, Mindfulness for relationships, Relationships

Experiencing Unpleasant Emotions? Invite Them In for Tea: The Counterintuitive Practice of Creating Space for Our Difficult Emotions

March 3, 2018 by Dr Jennifer Hartman

What do you do when you feel intense upset, anxiety, anger, or despair? Many of us want to get rid of the unpleasant emotions as soon as possible because unpleasant emotions are, well, unpleasant. We may look for a quick fix that helps turn down the volume on the unpleasantness or distracts us entirely.

Filed Under: Blog, Compassion, Emotions, Meditation, Mindfulness, Wellbeing, Wellness Tagged With: Allowing emotions, Difficult emotions, Guest house, Mindfulness, Unpleasant emotions, Welcoming prayer

Depression is a Lying, Manipulative, Thieving, Self-Important A-Hole

November 3, 2016 by Dr Jennifer Hartman

Depression is kind of an a-hole. There, I said it. Please pardon my crude language but I think it’s an apt description. Depression can turn a perfectly lovely, capable, intelligent person into an irritable, lethargic, confused, pessimistic mess. It is notorious for telling very convincing lies, and these lies are often big whoppers packing a […]

Filed Under: Blog, Depression, Exercise, Meditation, Mindfulness, Psychotherapy, Yoga Tagged With: Depression, psychotherapy

A Mindful Breathing Exercise: Alternate-Nostril Breathing

July 25, 2016 by Dr Jennifer Hartman

Alternate nostril breathing from Jennifer Hartman. Check out the above video, my first ever video blog, where I teach you how to do alternate-nostril breathing. It sounds weird, I know, but it’s actually pretty cool. This breathing practice comes from yoga tradition and in the yoga world, it is touted to have all kinds of […]

Filed Under: Anxiety, Blog, Breath Work, Meditation, Mindfulness, Wellness

Don’t Lose Your Mind! Learn to Respond Instead of React

July 14, 2016 by Dr Jennifer Hartman

Orlando, St. Paul, Baton Rouge, Dallas (where I live), Nice (France). After a string of recent tragedies, I, like so many people, have been grappling with feelings of shock, outrage, sadness, and confusion. I come to you today not with any answers or direct commentary, but with a request. My request involves a call to action […]

Filed Under: Blog, Compassion, Meditation, Mindfulness Tagged With: Meditation, Mindfulness

“But why would I want to breathe in the bad stuff?”: A Brief Intro to Tonglen Meditation

May 20, 2016 by Dr Jennifer Hartman

That’s the question I often get asked when I teach a specific meditation style called Tonglen. Before I explain Tonglen meditation, think about any guided relaxation exercises you might have done in your life. Many of us have experienced guided meditations, relaxation exercises, and even yoga practices that encourage us to breathe in the “good […]

Filed Under: Acceptance, Blog, Meditation, Mindfulness, Transformation Tagged With: bad stuff, good stuff, Meditation, Mindfulness

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