Chris Germer leads you through a guided meditation designed to help you discover loving-kindness and compassion phrases that are deeply meaningful to you.

Find Your Loving-Kindness Phrases

Compassion means that we care for the well being of others. We wish them peace and happiness and do not want them to suffer. In this meditation, Lama Yeshe invites you to look at compassion through your own experience. He asks you to think about 'What does it feel like to have compassion towards others?' and 'What does it feel like when others show compassion towards you?' If you feel that you may need to boost your compassion for others, then this meditation is for you.

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Compassion Awareness - Open Awareness Open Mind Meditation

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Awareness of Breath (5 mns) – Rita Young

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

it's not uncommon for physical illnesses, especially ones causing chronic pain, to lead to mental suffering. In this visulisation meditation, you are guided to downsize your pain through various exercises. You will be asked to rate the pain and see it as a shape and colour, and by altering your image of the pain, you will be able to reduce your pain levels.

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Downsizing Pain

Forgiveness doesn’t mean being passive or not taking action. It doesn’t mean standing down when we need to protect ourselves or someone else from harm. You practice forgiveness for your own sake, so you are not locked in bitterness, sadness and resentment. These just harden your emotions, narrow your options in responding to life, cloud your judgment and shift your attention from those who matter to you to those whom you dislike. This guided meditation helps you to give forgiveness to yourself and others.

Finding Forgiveness

The world is going through a very challenging time, due to the Coronavirus. Many people are becoming sick and having to isolate. This is causing huge amounts of fear, anxiety and panic. All of these ultimately stem from our minds. It is not possible to control the spread of the virus, but it is possible to control our minds and the way we respond to it. This guided meditation will help you deal with your thoughts of fear, anxiety and panic by showing you they are just thoughts and so we can learn to let them go. 

Please stay safe and healthy at this difficult time.

Coronavirus: Dealing With Fear And Anxiety

In this podcast, Yeshe Rabgye gives us some very useful tips on how to deal with working from home or being in isolation. Please stay home and stay safe.

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Dealing With Isolation

A Meditation to Gather Your Energy from Sharon Salzberg

3-Min Mindful Moment by Marta Patterson

Emotions are not our enemy and we don't have to try and run away from them or fight them. This meditation will help you work your way through your emotions in a mindful way. A way that is going to help you let go and move on.

Working with Your Emotions

Karma Yeshe Rabgye is a Western Monk in the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Originally from England, he now teaches Buddhism, mindfulness and meditation to people all over the world.

Working with Your Emotions

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