Other Meditations by David

Recorded during a live meditation session.  Trigger warning:  background noise.

From Internal Family Systems, with some added self-compassion touches

The Path Exercise

Recorded during a live meditation session.  Trigger warning:  background noise.

Loving Kindness To Our Parts

Compassionately being with your parts ( a la Internal Family Systems)

Lots of background noise.  Including oxygen concentrator.  Recorded during live session

Being with Our Parts

Recorded during Public Circles of Practice.  Trigger Warning - background noise

Grounding And Letting Go With Kindness

[Recorded during a live meditation session.  Trigger warning:  background noise]

A different version of the MSC core meditation Affectionate Breathing

Another Version Of Affectionate Breathing

[Recorded during a meditation session.  Trigger warning: background noise.]

When I was faced with all the craziness in our world as well as a progressively worsening health condition, I felt like I was tumbling in space with nothing to hold on to. Because guess what? There WASN’T anything to hold on to. The things that used to feel solid were disintegrating. I couldn’t rely on tried-and-true sources of connection, of strength, or support. Until one day, as I found myself, once again, on the floor, not able to move, in so much pain and fatigue from a failing body, I discovered (or more aptly, I remembered) some simple strategies that might bring relief to this suffering. So simple it’s easy to forget them.

Finding Your Ground … Literally
Increasing Relaxation in Body and Mind
Noticing You’re Alright Right Now
Showing Yourself Compassion and Kindness

Four Simple Steps

Recorded during live meditation session.  Trigger warning:  background noise.

Start by developing stillness, relaxation, and rest in the body by gently focusing on the breath and the pleasant qualities of the breath.  Deepening stillness, relaxation, and rest by moving from observer of the breath to feeling the breath or being the breath or communing with the breath (whatever those are).  Then, offering ourselves words of kindness, compassion, support, guidance, love, etc. and allowing them to land, to truly land, and to soak down into our bones.

Stillness, Rest, Relaxation, And Kindness

Recorded during live meditation session.  Trigger warning:  background noise.

The way to freedom is to be with, to allow, with compassion so that you can let go and be free.

The way to Freedom

Recorded during live meditation session.  Trigger Warning: background noise.

Resting in already available vast, spacious awareness while cultivating affectionate breathing.  Allowing this comforting, soothing breath infuse and ultimately merge with all there is.

Vast Spacious Awareness with Affectionate Breath

Trigger Warning:  Background noise as this was recorded in a live meditation session.

First, we let go, we release, we relax in the breath.  A breath that holds us with support, kindness, tenderness.  Then, we offer ourselves what it is that we need in this moment,  Perhaps, soothing or supportive touch, or kind and tender words, or maybe it's just resting in the limitless, boundless ocean of compassion.

Letting Go With Kindness

Trigger Warning:  Background noise as this was recorded during a live meditation session.

Practicing compassionately being with pleasant and unpleasant emotions from a vast, spacious awareness; a wide open, vast ocean of compassion.

Being with Emotions with Vast, Spacious Awareness

Trigger Warning: Background noise as this was recorded during a live meditation session.

A version of the classic Compassionate Friend meditation.

Compassionate Presence

From Center for Mindful Self Compassion's Public Circle of Practice.

Trigger Warning - background noise

Offering yourself kindness, support, love, whatever YOU need right now.

New Year's Kindness Meditation

From Center for Mindful Self-Compassion Public Circles of Practice.

Stop, Be Still, Put It All Down, And Rest (with Kindness).

You do not have to carry all of It, all the time.  Profound peace comes from letting it all go, putting it all down, however you want to say it.  It doesn't mean pushing it away, though.  It means releasing it, releasing the grip it has on you.  And since this is MSC, we do this with a profound sense of kindness, compassion, and tenderness.  Because the act of putting it down can be painful.  And because there is pain, our move is to be kind.  This takes lots of practice...practice putting it down and practice being kind while doing so.

Stop, Be Still, Put It All Down, And Rest (with Kindness)

From Center for Mindful Self-Compassion Public Circles of Practice.

Stop, Be Still, Put It All Down, And Rest (with Kindness) - Short Form.

You do not have to carry all of It, all the time. Profound peace comes from letting it all go, putting it all down, however you want to say it. It doesn't mean pushing it away, though. It means releasing it, releasing the grip it has on you. And since this is MSC, we do this with a profound sense of kindness, compassion, and tenderness. Because the act of putting it down can be painful. And because there is pain, our move is to be kind. This takes lots of practice...practice putting it down and practice being kind while doing so.

Stop, Be still, Put it all down, Rest (with kindness) - short version

Savoring and Expressing Gratitude for Positive Emotions
Being with challenging emotions with kindness, gentleness, and love.

Being With What Is With Gratitude And Kindness

Classic Self Compassion (SC Break)

Mindful Self Compassion...step by step

Adapted from from “QUEER MORNING BLESSINGS / BIRKOT HASHACHAR”
Written by Dori Midnight & Randy Furash- Stewart 
Music by Batya Levine

Other Meditations by David

David Teitelman