Meditation & Mindfulness
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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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The Relationship of Rage to Chronic Pain
Although the whole emotional spectrum is likely involved, John Sarno believes that the primary emotion responsible for chronic pain is unconscious rage. This post is…
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Working with Emotion in Mindfulness Meditation Practice
Working with emotional energy can be a real challenge, both in meditation and in daily life. We often suppress difficult emotions. In this post, I…
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Working with Habits of Impulse
What happens when we meditate just to keep things on an even keel? In this post, I talk about opening to experience as it is…
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Exercising the “Oops” Reflex in Meditation and Prayer
Although Centering Prayer and Mindfulness Meditation are two very different practices, in this post, Kimberly talks about one thing both practices share in common -…
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.