Self-Compassion For Difficult Times

This is a self-compassion practice to help meet life's difficult moments with ease. It's for anyone dealing with any difficult emotions like anxiety, fear, loss, confusion, overwhelm, anger, sadness, or anything that feels tough. As humans we tend to evade and avoid when difficulties arise. No healing comes from this. Instead, what's needed is self-compassion.

Transcript

Gently closing the eyes,

Settling into stillness.

And on your own,

Taking a few deep settling breaths.

Drawing your attention to arrive here.

Gently landing on the present moment.

Allowing to your practice,

Kindly,

Slowly,

Gently arriving here.

So allowing your awareness to rest in the heart,

The emotional heart that holds on to so much.

And so we can begin to look deeply at the heart,

Noticing the tender parts of the heart.

The parts of the heart that have been holding on to any difficulties or suffering.

And so we can imagine the heart gently turning towards itself and caring for what's there.

Caring for what's calling for our attention.

So noticing the tender parts of your heart.

What's there right now?

What could use some love,

Some care,

Some attention?

Perhaps feelings of sadness,

Anger,

Fear,

Frustration.

Caring for whatever needs your attention.

I'm here suffering,

What do you need?

I'm listening.

We care for our difficulties as a mother cares for a crying child.

I'm here.

I'm listening.

What do you need?

So practicing on your own for a couple of minutes.

Practicing deep listening.

Looking deeply at the tender parts of your heart.

I'm here,

I'm listening.

I see you suffering,

I'm here to care.

What do you need?

What do you need?

Soothing our difficulties.

Offering our presence,

Our kindness,

Our love.

Less concerned with why these difficulties are here.

Instead just being present with our suffering and caring,

Loving.

Offering our kindness and understanding.

I'm here suffering,

I'm here.

What do you need?

Holding our difficulties in a warm embrace as a mother holds a child.

You see when love touches pain,

It turns into compassion.

Our suffering is transformed.

And so we look deeply at the tender parts of our heart and we care.

And so we can tell our suffering we'll be back to care for it later.

We'll be back.

Beginning to deepen the breath.

Gently wiggling the body solid and whole.

Noticing sound.

Gently wiggling the fingers and toes coming back to the body.

And gently coming out of practice and opening the eyes when you're ready.

Reviews

That was incredible, your voice took me to a place of self compassion that I needed to find.🌹❤️🙏

What a beautiful meditation. It really touched me. 🙏💖

A beautiful and gentle practice to start my day. Thank you 🙏🏻

Lovely and so helpful. Made it so much easier to connect with self-compassion. Thank you 🙏

It was good to think of what do I need to do to feel better. Thank you

Beautiful. Love her voice and her message. I wish the piano wasn’t so repetitive; that was a little wearing. I almost gave 4 stars bc of it. But everything else is so beautiful and perfect. Just something to keep in mind for future recordings.

Thanks for the space you created in this beautiful meditation. A lot of stuff came up for me and I was able to soften and find self compassion. 🤍

Thank you for a gentle calming and soothing to restore self peace. Much gratitude. Laura ,🌸🪷🪻✨🌻

I loved this so much and really needed this, thank you!

This exercise, being with the suffering heart and caring, being there with compassion is a meditation of self love and nurturing.

Beautiful! The guidance the voice, the music the outcome. Just what I didn’t know I needed. I will add this to my Favorites.

So powerful is healing when we embrace it! Thank you! “When love touches pain, it turns into compassion; our suffering is transformed.”

Thx 4 caressing my soul, just when I needed it. 🤲🏻💜

Beautifully nurturing, landed perfectly with me, thank you ❤️

This was absolutely amazing! I will listen to this everyday! It helped me so much.

Wonderful, really calmed my anxious mind shall use this everyday

Both me & my client who has severe autism "got there" into a very deep meditation & peaceful place. Amazing, thank you kindly!

Beautiful very comforting thank you. I needed this so much.

Compassionate, which is something I need right now. Thank you 🙏🏼❤️

Very kind & gentle. Exactly what I needed today. Thank you.