Sample tracks from Sharon Salzberg's, "Real Happiness at Work"

Touch-Point Meditation

Drinking Tea Meditation

Breathing Meditation Introduction from Sharon Salzberg's, "Real Happiness"

Breathing Meditation Introduction

Kristin Neff Body Scan

To be kind to others, you need to start with yourself. This loving kindness practice involves silently repeating phrases that offer good qualities to oneself and to others.

Loving-Kindness Meditation from Sharon Salzberg - The Mindful Practice Podcast

Sharon Salzberg offered this Guided Metta (Lovingkindness) Meditation — Sending metta to people we feel neutral towards as well as those we have difficult feelings towards — to a room full of people at an Insight Meditation Society retreat.

Guided Lovingkindness Meditation from Sharon Salzberg

Three minutes breathing space

This 5-minute mindfulness practice cultivates gratitude for life's small delights as you move through the senses.

5 minute gratitude meditation

A 5-minute gratitude practice: savor through the senses

Many of us struggle to silence our inner critic on a daily basis. According to meditation teacher Tara Brach, that’s because we are living in a “trance of unworthiness,” and are addicted to self-judgment. Tara is the the founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, D.C., a best-selling author, and a clinical psychologist who has been at the forefront of blending Buddhist meditation and therapeutic methods. She is perhaps best known for her teachings on RAIN, an acronym that stands for Recognize, Acceptance, Investigation, and Nurturing, and that describes a method for applying mindfulness to difficult emotions. In her new book, Radical Compassion, she focuses on using RAIN to cultivate compassion—beginning with compassion for ourselves.

Tara Brach: Radical Compassion

A Meditation to Gather Your Energy from Sharon Salzberg

A conversation with  Liz Stanley.

This episode's guest is Elizabeth Stanley, a professor at Georgetown University and author of the book "Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma." Liz is a U.S. Army veteran who came to practice (in part) to help her with PTSD. In their conversation, David and Liz discuss contemporary definitions of trauma and how this relates to the current moment; the neurophysiology of trauma, including the relationship between what Liz terms the “thinking brain” and “survival brain”; and their current assessments of the impacts of COVID-19, it’s impact on social windows of tolerance, and their hopes for the path ahead.

Episode 14 | Widening the Window of Tolerance

Sharon Salzberg is New York Times Best-Selling author and world-renowned mediation teacher. 