Compassion Meditation, Day 4 Holding Space for Silent Struggles Meditation Series

Mar 6, 2024

In this meditation series, they explore how to hold space for silent struggles like disenfranchised grief. The challenge this week is to manage emotional breaking points with meditation techniques. Each day offers a different meditation technique to help calm the mind during difficult times.

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Introduction

00:00 • 2min

Navigating Private Grief and Self-Compassion

02:26 • 6min

Compassion and Strength Visualization for Self and Others

08:07 • 2min

Cultivate a sense of compassion which can be particularly beneficial when dealing with grief.

Welcome to "Holding Space for Silent Struggles," a 7-day meditation series where we embrace the unseen, the unheard, and the unspoken parts of our grief journey. Each day, we will explore different meditation techniques to support you in holding space for your silent struggles and nurturing your healing process.

This is part 4 of a 7-part meditation series titled Holding Space for Silent Struggles, episodes 3057-3063.

THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: Bend Don't Break Quest

This week, select an emotional breaking point you might be enduring and apply a meditation technique to manage it. For example, do daily breathing, yoga, walk in nature, etc when you feel you're at an emotional breaking point.

A DIFFERENT MEDITATION TECHNIQUE EVERY DAY FOCUSED ON A WEEKLY THEME:

You are guided with a different meditation technique every day that is customized for the week's theme. Weave the techniques into the most stressful times of your day to manage difficult emotions. The meditation techniques help to calm the "monkey mind," when your thoughts continuously interrupt your meditation.

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