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(If you’re having trouble viewing the clip, click here). Andy Puddicombe, co-founder of Headspace, talked to Bloomberg TV about meditation making its way to the mainstream and how it can be practiced on a day-to-day basis. Nearly 1 million people have downloaded the Headspace app, and Puddicombe spoke to the newfound popularity of learning the skill of being present: “The neuroscience now is showing us that we can have a calmer mind, a clearer mind, our attention can be stronger, our focus can be stronger, performance improves, efficieny, productivity....

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Imagine for a moment the amount of energy you expend brooding over the future, ruminating about the past, comparing yourself to others, judging yourself, worrying about what might happen next. That is a huge amount of energy. Now imagine all of that energy gathered in and returned to you. Underlying our usual patterns of self-preoccupation, stinging self-judgment, and fear is the universal, innate potential for love and awareness. Loving-kindness meditations point us back to a place within, where we can cultivate love and help it flourish....

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While each chapter focuses on a different aspect of the practice, a key theme throughout is that self-compassion ultimately means asking ourselves one question: “What do I need?” Easier said than done. Hickman—a longtime teacher of Mindful Self-Compassion, and Founding Director of the UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness—leads us in his witty and reassuring way, starting with defining self-compassion and its three components of mindfulness, common humanity, and kindness. He briefs us on the science of self-compassion, followed by sections like “How Kindness Transforms in the Fire of Life,” and “Dancing with the Inner Critic and Making Change....