Psychology & Personal Growth
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Aspirations to Perceive Goodness & Establish a Wholesome Society for the Benefit of All
Shambhala Warriorship was first introduced in the West by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche in the late 1970s. It represents his desire to teach the basic principles…
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The Meaning of Emptiness in Buddhism
Emptiness is a translation of the Sanskrit term shunyata. For Westerners, this term can create a lot of confusion. We tend to think of emptiness…
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How Mindfulness Meditation Helps Relieve Chronic Pain
In this post, I present the entire map of how mindfulness meditation practice helps us in our quest to resolve chronic pain. We will look…
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The Power of Mindfulness in Healing Chronic Pain
Chronic pain is hard, especially when we don’t know why we’re experiencing it. In this post, I talk about a fortuitous event that provided an…
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The Three Levels of Awareness and How We Turn Ordinary Awareness into Pure Gold
The basis of mindfulness meditation is awareness. So, what’s the big deal about awareness? In this post, I talk about ordinary awareness, how important it…
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How Secondary Pain Becomes Chronic
When we experience injury or illness, the body sends raw information to the brain. We call this primary pain. The mind’s reaction to primary pain…
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The Relationship Between Our Responses to Life Events and Our Capacity to Heal
I recently read an important statement in a book called “Your Power to Heal” by Henry Grayson. It reminded me that stress is not a…
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How Interpretive Perception Dictates Different People’s Experiences of Similar Events
Let’s face it. We don’t all see eye to eye on everything. In this story, I share my first experience realizing just how different our…
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The Meaning of the Zen Koan: Chop Wood Carry Water
What is enlightenment really? Is it some kind of ultimate experience? In this post, I consider a different solution while imagining a story behind a…
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Experiencing Pure Awareness While Driving Up Folsom Avenue
Meditation has a way of changing our perspective on many levels. In this post, I talk about my first experience of pure perception and how…
Kimberly Holman
Kimberly Holman is a certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher (MMT) with a B.A. in psychology from the University of Maine and an M.A in religious studies from Naropa University.
