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Marc I am sorry about that cardiac condition. Stress is an old friend of mine or should I say enemy. Somehow I did not develop a heart condition nor my brother who was a physician. I suspect that genetics have a lot to do with it. I want to urge you to do guided meditations 15 to 20 minutes each day. It helps me a lot to not worry about. I am a worrier. And Tara Brach says during her guided meditations just accept the moment. My mind wanders she gently helps with that. Perfectionist. Yeah I know all about that too:)

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Thanks for this Allan. I never meditated until about two years ago after I was hospitalized for a cardiac condition which at first was diagnosed as stress-induced. I began to meditate 20 minutes every afternoon simply lying on the sofa with noise reduction headphones. I don’t do it as much anymore except in times of great stress. I read that I should not try to be a perfectionist at meditation but to just do the best I can. If my mind wandered, I should just pivot to feeling and listening to my breathing, which helped. In fact, often I would fall into a restful sleep.

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Thank you for the great article, sky as a metaphor is always relatable in spiritual modalities. To the sky :)

Cheers !

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And thank you for your comment

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A lovely treatise on how to live from the inside.

You provide good tools and helpful guidance that can help us to do so.

Thank you Allan.

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I appreciate that. My effort is to both provide you and me with tools. I have always believed in learning together

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Yes, I agree wholeheartedly. Mindfulness and meditation has helped me immensely. I did an online course back in 2015 and it was so good I repeated it in 2017 - unfortunately it's no longer available but if you can find a mindfulness course with trained experts it's useful. Gently bringing your mind back into the moment is all part of the meditation yourself.

Kristin Neff, for me, is the mother of self-compassion research and tools; her website generously shares free guided meditations and tools. Here's a link to the part of my index with self-compassion and burnout.- I hope you don't mind me sharing it here.

https://www.carermentor.com/i/140869453/self-compassion-and-the-stress-cycle

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Kristin Neff is wonderful and I highly recommend her.

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Of course I do not mind your sharing it here. Share whenever you wish.

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Thanks, Allan!

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Hello Mr. Schwartz, I am so sorry to hear about your cardiac issue. My prayers are always with you. How are you feeling today? Hope that you will give me some good news that you are doing well.

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