Self-Compassion Meditation: Breathing In Your Difficulty

Day 5: Experience a complete tonglen meditation session, visualizing yourself in front of you, breathing in your own difficulty and breathing out whatever might help, then expanding the practice to include others who share similar struggles — discovering how self-compassion naturally leads to compassion for others.

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Reflections

  • How do you typically speak to yourself in difficult moments?
  • What tools  stood out in Ethan’s tonglen instructions, as helping you to cultivate a more compassionate tone towards yourself and others?”

About the teacher

Ethan Nichtern is a Buddhist teacher and the author of Confidence: Holding Your Seat through Life’s Eight Worldly Winds and The Road Home: A Contemporary Exploration of the Buddhist Path.