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The use of affirmations has become an inseparable part of quite a few practices of training and therapy. From my understanding, using affirmations can sometimes have real value, but when it’s used in an imprecise way, it can create the opposite effect from what we intended. I’m not writing this as a post against affirmations (personally, in my own work, I don’t use them), but as an attempt to be more accurate about when and why they work, and when they start working against u

Focusing and mindfulness are two practices that developed at very different times. However, both contain much of each other in terms of the perception of the path and direction they aim for: liberation from suffering and progress through a deep acceptance of inner experience, as it manifests itself in the body and mind. When I look at the society around me, at patients, students, and myself, I feel that the most important thing for happiness in our lives is empathy and the ex