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Preference & Demand
What’s the difference between a preference and a demand? And what do they have to do with acceptance? Both preferences and demands are...

Jonathan Gibbons
Oct 13, 20222 min read
Past & Future
You’ve talked a lot about accepting whatever’s coming up in the moment, but what about the past and the future? Do we have to accept...

Jonathan Gibbons
Oct 13, 20222 min read
Be Here Now
“Be Here Now” has become a kind of cliché, and you may be tired of hearing it. But it’s become a cliché for good reason. Because it’s...

Jonathan Gibbons
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Letting Go of the Future
How can we stop obsessing about the future when everything seems so uncertain? The future is uncertain. And that’s the first thing we...

Jonathan Gibbons
Oct 13, 20222 min read
Pain
Last summer, while we were on vacation on the coast, I found myself watching Annchen doing her energetic yoga practice out on the patio...

Jonathan Gibbons
Oct 13, 20222 min read
Micro-Victim Identity
When we talk about somebody having a victim identity, we tend to think of a case where the person has become quite dysfunctional—a person...

Jonathan Gibbons
Oct 13, 20223 min read
Sitting Doing Nothing
Nothing is more important than doing nothing. Sitting doing nothing is the most basic of meditative practices, and yet it has the...

Jonathan Gibbons
Oct 13, 20222 min read
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