Compassion & Curiosity

The Yin and Yang of Mindfulness

I spent 1 & 1/2 semesters in a master’s program in clinical mental health counseling. The emphasis of the program? Mindfulness-based, transpersonal psychology.

One of my first semester classes was titled “Foundations of Mindfulness”, and a primary theme of the class was understanding and actualizing attitudes of curiosity and compassion during mindfulnes…