…a clearly flawed self. My attachment to self-improvement transferred itself into the domain of spiritual practice. While I realized at the time that kindness was intrinsic to the spiritual path,…
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Blog – RAIN: A Practice of Radical Compassion
…your investigation will be most transformational if you step away from conceptualizing and bring your primary attention to the felt-sense in the body. N—Nurture with Self-Compassion Self-compassion begins to naturally…
Resources: Community Wisdom on Sleep
…my bones sink into comfort. SELF-COMPASSION It can be helpful to gently cross my hands over my chest (a la Mindful Self Compassion, stimulating oxytocin), adopt the half smile (Thich…
Compassion in Therapy Summit 2022
Join this FREE online event, to gather strength and inspiration, and learn how to successfully integrate mindfulness, self-compassion, and compassion into your therapy practice. Register Now The 2022 lineup features…
Blog: Connecting with Our ‘Soul Sadness’
…She was healing herself with compassion. Before she left, I suggested she pause whenever she became aware of guilt or shame, and take a moment to reconnect with self-compassion. If…
The Essence of Mindful Prayer: “May this Suffering Awaken Compassion”
…Christianity and other God-centered religions. Beseeching someone or something greater than our small and frightened self seems to reinforce the notion of a separate and wanting self. Yet while prayer…
Online Courses
…empowering, clear and caring presence. Learn more… Healing Harmful Habits & Addictions ON-DEMAND In this online course, we explore how mindfulness and self-compassion practices directly decondition habitual grasping and allow…
Blog: Creating a Home Retreat: Finding Freedom Wherever You Are [FREE Half Day Retreat Included]
…mindful loving awareness, compassion and loving kindness, big sky of mind, healing, self-compassion and others. You can repeat them many times, and let the audio guidance help deepen your meditations….
Blog: Self-Forgiveness and Making Amends
…tenderness, our own spirit. If we can see past our faults to our human vulnerability, we are on the path of reconciliation. Our self-compassion will naturally lead to caring about…
Blog: From Self-judgment to Compassion
…dig ourselves deeper into the trance of unworthiness. Whenever we’re trapped in self-judgment, like Daniel, our first and wisest step towards freedom is to develop compassion for ourselves. If we’ve…
Blog: Shifting from Blame to Love: 3 Practices for a Wise Heart
…If you’re working on self-compassion, look to the vulnerable part of yourself to sense what it most needs from you. Is it forgiveness? Acceptance? Companionship? Safety? Love? Then from the…
Part 2: Heart of Compassion
Most of us consciously value compassion, but move through much of life without access to the full capacity of our heart. This talk explores the self-compassion that is the very…
Translations: Other Languages
…Asked Questions by Meditation Beginners) PDF | Blog Arabic تأمل مطر من الرحمة الذاتية – PDF (RAIN of Self-Compassion) Dansk RAIN: Medfølelse med sig selv – PDF (RAIN of Self-Compassion)…
Resources ~ RAIN: Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture
…with an array of challenges that arise. • Download the free Study Guide for her book, Radical Compassion. The RAIN of Self-Compassion includes the steps of RAIN, as well as…
Part 2 – The Jewel in the Lotus: Cultivating Compassion
The compassion that arises from mindful awareness can heal our inner wounds, interpersonal conflict and the suffering in our world. These two talks focus on cultivating self-compassion and compassion for…
Blog: When the News Makes Us Miserable: Remembering a Fuller Presence and Larger Truth
…up in the place of the anger. Once we see how our own leg is in a trap and hold our experience with self-compassion, it becomes easier to see how…
Download RAIN: A Practice of Radical Compassion
Download RAIN: A Practice of Radical Compassion Download: RAIN: A Practice of Radical Compassion [PDF] The acronym RAIN is an easy-to-remember tool for bringing mindfulness and compassion to emotional difficulty….
Part 1 – The Jewel in the Lotus: Cultivating Compassion
The compassion that arises from mindful awareness can heal our inner wounds, interpersonal conflict and the suffering in our world. These two talks focus on cultivating self-compassion and compassion for…
Transcript: Tonglen: Radical Compassion
…PDF: Tonglen: Radical Compassion (PDF) We’ll be exploring the heart practice of compassion today. And when you consider radical compassion, or living compassion, there are two major components. One, that…
Blog: Reaching Out For Compassion
…her own life. At this point, compassion for herself was not only impossible, Marian was convinced it would have been wrong: the horror that Christy endured was her fault; she…