Igniting Compassion

Center and tap into your innate compassion and passion for justice. "Igniting Compassion" begins with a short centering exercise, guiding you into your breath, your body, and then resting awareness in your heart-center. From there, I offer questions intended to help you tap into compassion, your sense of justice, and your resolve to engage in compassionate social action. If you enjoy this, it is the first meditation as part of a free, three-part online course.

Reviews

Namaste. 🌸🌺

This is a gently yet clearly guided invitation to reflect on the issues that really matter to us, to identify/discover the roots of our social justice values, then to direct our emotions and energies purposefully. Thomas’ voice is rich and resonant, conveying trust, safety, and compassion. I felt grounded, seen, and inspired. Highly recommended.

Great exercise that cpuld be used in schools or universities, thanks

Very useful and simple guidance, especially the focus on questions to guide/probe our own personal interests in social justice and engagement, and encourage connection.

Tom, I've listened to several of your prayers, 11th step course, and interviews. Thank you for putting your work forward! I continually connect, learn and grow when I listen to your work!

Fully supporting your attempt to experiment with integrative approaches as you have an “idea/ideal” in the background to be able to give a healing hand to today’s social, political etc injustices....I appreciate your approach! I’ll use this method in my women circles! Thank you 🙏🏼

Prompted me to think about why I truly feel so angry/passionate about the internal terrorism created by the pharmaceutical/chemical industry poisoning us thru excessive pesticide used on our foods- depriving me and the country of their basic right to life, liberty and persuit if happiness because we must battle for our health since all Americans need to eat. Bayer (Monsanto), follows it's roots and is attempting mass genocide just like Hitler, except on Americans, via Agent Orange, Round up, Ranger, Opiates... The evil they do"disguised as good" far outweigh the good when one can no longer perform a basic need for human survival: to eat and Nourish the Temple that the Creator made, with OUT poisoning and damage to the primary fundamental barrier to the outside world- the intestinal wall... And creating dysbiosis, disease, cancer etc. I see this daily in my patients and it is brutal to watch esp after they try so hard to reform their diet etc and live as healthy as possible. It's heart breaking.

This process was useful in allowing me to move from anger & frustration about some injustices to a place of compassion not just for the victims but also perpetrators (not condoning the behaviour) however for their ignorance. I can see that the world needs me to be Love & to carry that in my whole being, as anger will add fuel to the disfunction.

With a grateful heart...

Awesome self awareness for me to understand my feelings when it comes to this segment of meditation. I will listen to this again. This is one of my new favorites...