Help Your Lonely Part

In this guided meditation—a companion to the talk, Your Loneliness Longs For You—I use an IFS approach to help you enter your inner world, find the origin of your loneliness in a distinct part of you, and interact with this lonely part in a healing way. As you give it your attention—learning how old it is, what wound it carries, and what it needs—you begin a relationship with it. Your loneliness is no longer alone. Even simply recognizing your part in this meditation can change how you experience loneliness.
I want to give you a sense of what it’s like to go inside and work with a part—even though I can’t give you personal guidance in response to your moment-by-moment experience. There will be prompts and questions that don’t apply—let these flow by and stay with what is actually happening inside you. What you notice about your experience in the inner world is more important information than anything I might say.