Tonglen For Healthcare Providers: The Day Ahead

As a healthcare provider, your days can be filled with appointments - some of which you know will go smoothly, and some of which you already know are going to be hard. Use this practice to ground yourself and cultivate compassion before you start your day - I promise you it will make your day go smoother and even help your clients too. This practice invites you to pull up your schedule for the day, or for the following morning, applying tonglen to each of your clients and to yourself.

If you are new to tonglen, this practice is a visualization of breathing in suffering and transforming it with compassion into a sense of ease and well-being.