How You Can Learn to Face Any of Life’s Challenges With More Resilience
When crises arise, some people flourish while others flounder. Here's how your practice can help you build resilience.
Sally Kempton is an internationally recognized teacher of meditation and yoga philosophy and the author of Meditation for the Love of It and Awakening Shakti. Find her at sallykempton.com. Ancient yogic texts are as vast as they are deep, and there is perhaps no better way to navigate the waters than with someone like Sally Kempton, a Mauktananda-initiated Vedic swami since 1982. As Yoga Journal’s longtime Wisdom columnist, she uses Tantra philosophy, meditation techniques, and Hindu myths to shed light on everyday challenges and help readers fully live their yoga. In addition to her meditation books and audio programs, you can find her teachings through her online courses and meditation retreats around the world.
When crises arise, some people flourish while others flounder. Here's how your practice can help you build resilience.
Embrace authenticity.
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Help your inner control freak chill out just a little bit.
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Meditation teacher Sally Kempton discusses the mythology of two Hindu deities that majorly inform Tantric philosophy.
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Sally Kempton answers some of the most frequently asked questions about meditation.
Use yogic philosophy to find satisfaction in your job, no matter what it is.
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Establish a place of refuge and weather even the toughest of times with grace.
Use these core yogic teachings to support you through radical life changes.
Practicing the art of accepting a gift—be it a material item or something less tangible like a compliment, favor, or piece of wisdom—can help us live, and give, with more meaning.
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Shine a light on the dark side of yourself to discover your negative tendencies, and change them.
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Everything you ever wanted to know about meditating, but didn't have a teacher to ask.
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Is it really possible that imagination can influence outcomes in the "real" world? Using your imagination can be a powerful and creative tool for a life transformation.
Because if you're human, chances are you struggle with it.
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Explore the layers of your body and soul to find your inner core of goodness.
You try to mask your vulnerability, but at some point it's sure to get the better of you. Then what do you do?
When you forgive a long-held grievance, you open the door to true freedom.
You can change the world, or at least your experience of it, by discovering how mindful speaking can change our realities.
Time spent alone doesn't have to be lonely. Embrace it as a chance to connect with what's truly essential.
Practicing generosity not only makes you feel good but it connects you with the essence of who you really are.
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You can work on it every day, starting with the small stuff. Here’s how.
As much as we might like to, we can't force love to happen. But we can understand its many levels and connect more easily to its source.
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To harness the energy of the mind, you must learn to see beyond the content of your thoughts to their very substance.
Toiling under the tyranny of perfectionism? Perfection isn't the tyrant—it's our notions about it that rule us.