MARINA BARNES COACHING

Tag: #perceptions

  • Do Judgments Reveal Your Inner World?

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    For the past decade, I have mostly looked at judgments through Marshall Rosenberg’s lens: “Even criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.” When I receive a criticism or sense I”m being judged, I try to figure out what this person’s unmet need is. When or if the unmet…

  • Perceptions of a Kettle

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    I recently heard Ying Chen’s (a guest dharma teacher at Insight Meditation South Bay) talk titled Dancing with Elements. She gave a great description of how to practice mindfulness of the body along with an example of how thoughts cloud reality. Ying described a time when she saw children running around the pool while dropping…