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Sylvia Boorstein

Sylvia Boorstein is a psychologist and leading teacher of Insight Meditation. Her many best-selling books include Pay Attention, for Goodness’ Sake and Happiness Is An Inside Job.

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How to Set Meaningful Intentions

Regularly reminding yourself of your intentions is the key to keeping your life on target, says Sylvia Boorstein. She shares how to set meaningful intentions for yourself, your loved ones, and all beings.

A Practice to Meet Bad Habits with Loving-Kindness

Sylvia Boorstein unpacks the foundational Buddhist teaching “Recognize unwholesome states in the mind and replace them with wholesome states.”

How Endings Make Room for Beginnings

Sylvia Boorstein on the transformative power of acknowledging life's constant cycle of creation and loss.

How to Work with the Winter Blues

Perhaps these days of less sunlight are opportunities for more contemplative time, more looking deeply to see what can only be seen in the dark.

Man with headlamp looking into space.

Meditation for Interconnectedness

Sylvia Boorstein shares a meditation for deepening our sense of interconnectedness.