Working With Challenging
Emotions
Compassionate Meditations
Here I guide a meditation designed to alleviate aversions or attractions which arise as a result of powerful emotions. By holding the aural field, visual fie...
In this meditation we learn to reclaim our power from our emotions, allowing for more effective, heartfelt communication with ourselves, our community, and the world. Recorded live at The New Life Foundation in Chiangrai, Thailand
Here we can see the Buddha's Noble Truths in action. In the silence of meditation we bring up desire. It gives rise to craving. By then embracing more and more of the present moment, we can experience the desire shift ad change and eventually release.
Upon his release from prison, after 27 years of incarceration, Nelson Mandela made the astonishing statement :"I forgive my captors, because holding on to anger is like drinking rat poison and expecting the rat to die." When we forgive, it is not the forgiven who benefits. It is us. Through forgiveness, we learn to let go and to let love heal. The meditation provided here is loosely based on the chapter on forgiveness in the book entitled "Lovingkindness" by Sharon Salzburg. May All Benefit
Fear arises. That is a natural, normal part of the human condition. However, most fear we experience is based on the past, whipping us out of the present moment and into emotional reactivity. This guided meditation is designed to alleviate our reactivity to fear.