Archive for June, 2018
Meditation on Compassion
Tuesday, June 26th, 2018
Fill yourself up with compassion with each breath.
What do you look like when you are living with compassion?
Show yourself some compassion right now.
Allow yourself to breathe compassion into your whole body.
Notice your body and breathe even more compassion.
Let compassion move your hands to your heart.
How are you transmitting compassion to yourself?
What is your message of compassion today?
Listen to compassion.
Take a deeper breath in and out.
Breathe compassion. Again. And again.
When you see the world with compassion, what’s possible?
And take a nice big breath.
Be compassionate to youself, always.
Beam compassion with every interaction.
And so it is.
As Pema Chödrön writes, “Just as nurturing our ability to love is a way of awakening bodhichitta, so also is nurturing our ability to feel compassion. Compassion, however, is more emotionally challenging than loving-kindness because it involves the willingness to feel pain. It definitely requires the training of a warrior.
When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience our fear of pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allow ourselves to move gently toward what scares us. The trick to doing this is to stay with emotional distress without tightening into aversion, to let fear soften us rather than harden into resistance.”
Stay with your breath. Stay with yourself. Stay with compassion.
Aware, Awake, and Alive Meditation
Tuesday, June 19th, 2018
Tune into your body. Notice any place that is tense and breathe there. Like a radio station that we adjust the knob to remove the static—take a moment to adjust your body to remove any static. Send your breath to any part of your body that feels tense. Breathe into that part of you that is holding on. Be aware of your body in this moment. Your body is teaching you right now where it is. Allow your body to show what is most needed in your life right now. Your body is showing you how to be aware, aware, and alive.