Just Like Me

Common humanity is a core component of self-compassion, and this short meditation will guide you in recognizing the ways that you are a human among humans. You’ll be supported in seeing uncertainty as a fundamental part of the human experience and reminded that you are not alone in not having answers.

Transcript

This is the just like me meditation. To begin please find a comfortable upright seated position and let your eyes close either partially or fully and now taking a few easy breaths to let go of any unnecessary tension. If it feels right putting a hand on your heart or some other soothing place as a reminder to bring kind loving attention both to yourself and to your experience and if it feels right you can leave your hand right where it is throughout this meditation and then I'd like you to please bring to mind someone you care about and picture them as clearly as you can in your mind and then as you are picturing them please identify something you have in common with this person and then repeat silently to yourself just like me. You can try saying this phrase silently to yourself with each inhale and exhale so inhaling just like me exhaling just like me. Another way that you might practice is to repeat a longer phrase that maybe more fully expresses interconnectedness common humanity so if you'd like to do this you might try repeating one or more of the following phrases just like me this person is alive right now just like me this person has questions without answers just like me this person feels joy and pain just like me this person will die just like me this person is a mystery and there's no rush you can repeat whatever phrases fit for you and you can repeat them slowly and gently for as long as you like there may even be other phrases that fit better for you so if those come to mind please repeat those and I'll repeat the ones that I mentioned earlier just like me this person is alive right now just like me this person has questions without answers just like me this person feels joy and pain just like me this person will die just like me this person is a mystery and then for now letting go of your focus on these phrases and of your focus on this person you are holding in your mind and letting your awareness rest in your body taking a few easy breaths noticing how you feel and remembering that there's no particular way that you're supposed to feel and that however you feel is okay and then as you feel ready gently opening your eyes

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