My last post on teaching reminded me of this favorite from Sharon Salzberg’s The Force of Kindness: “’People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities….Ability is not a fixed property…there is huge variability in it; people who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failures; they approach things in terms ofContinue reading “Reading: Self-efficacy”
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Readings: Rolf Gates
Very popular reading from his book Meditations from the Mat: Daily Reflections on the Path of Yoga: “The obstacles in our path are the path. Every time we stretch beyond our resistance and our fear, we make a choice for life. And every time we choose life, fear loses its grip on us. We allContinue reading “Readings: Rolf Gates”