Category: Working with Emotions
5 Tips for Mindful Journaling
James C. Hopkins on how—through writing—you can find the flow of awareness, free of judgment.
How to Feed Your Demons
Lama Tsultrim Allione teaches you an innovative technique, based on the Tibetan Buddhist principles of "Chöd," to turn your inner demons into friends.
Compassion Practice for the Los Angeles Wildfires with Diana Winston
In this video talk and guided practice, UCLA Mindful director Diana Winston shares how compassion practice can support those facing the devastating wildfires in the greater Los Angeles area.
How to Make Friends with Your Beautiful Monsters
Anger, fear, envy—usually we’re ashamed of our so-called monstrous emotional patterns. Yet if we make friends with our monsters, says Tsoknyi Rinpoche, magic happens. We are no longer afraid.
How to Practice Mindful Breathing for Anxiety
It’s a simple, calming meditation that you can do anytime, anywhere. Instructions by Melvin Escobar with Gregory Mengel.
How to Cultivate Resilience in Tough Times
Shauna Shapiro explains how to face difficult emotions, re-center, and find calm.
A 3-Step Practice to Soothe Anxiety
Psychologist Chris Germer’s three-step self-compassion practice to soothe your anxiety with kindness. Join Chris Germer in our new online course <a href="https://learn.lionsroar.com/p/five-keys-to-the-complete-path-of-mindfulness/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Five Keys to the Complete Path of Mindfulness.”</a>
Don’t Let Hatred Destroy Your Practice
His Holiness the Dalai Lama takes an in-depth look at how we can work with anger and hatred in our practice.
A Mindfulness Practice to Transform Anger into Love
This mindfulness practice from Thich Nhat Hanh will help you face your anger and transform it into the energies of love and understanding.
How do I know whether to avoid or accept something that causes me distress?
In Buddhadharma's Ask the Teachers section, Sestuan Gaelyn Godwin, Larry Yang, and Dungse Jampal Norbu discuss relating to obstacles and difficult emotions.
Feeling Our Way to Awakening
The emotions we wish we didn’t have, that we’d like to just get over? Those feelings, say Jody Hojin Kimmel, are not obstacles on the path — they are the path.
The Healing Power of Feeling
“The way to find freedom from difficult emotions is to find it right within the feelings themselves,” writes Andy Karr. Here, he shares a practice for locating and working with difficult feelings in the subtle body to ultimately heal them.
The Power of Mindfulness
Diana Winston on how to use the tools of mindfulness to work with negative patterns like shame, guilt, and self-criticism that stand in the way of caring for and liking yourself.
Pema Chödrön’s 3 Ways to Transform Your Emotions
At the root of our suffering are the destructive emotions that Buddhism calls the kleshas, or poisons. Pema Chödrön teaches us a three-step practice to transform their energy from a cause of suffering into a path to awakening.
What Miscarriage Taught Me about Love and Impermanence
Atia Sattar shares her account of the suffering of miscarriage and what it taught her about love, generosity, and impermanence.
A Meditation to Befriend Your Feelings
How you relate to your feelings, says Willa Blythe Baker, may be the most important habit of all. When you meet your feelings with grace and mindfulness, you find they’re your best friends on the spiritual path.
The 4 Noble Truths of Emotions
The Buddha laid out a four-step path to freedom from difficult emotions. Anyen Rinpoche says the secret is understanding why our emotions cause suffering.
How to Find Balance Through Equanimity
Equanimity protects us from emotional overreaction and allows us to rest in a bigger perspective. Christiane Wolf on how to cultivate it.
How 3 Buddhist Teachers Work with Difficult Emotions
Working with difficult emotions is a lifelong practice. Three Buddhist teachers open up about their own struggles.