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Daily Meditation Recordings, with Wiebke Pausch – Week of October 31, 2022

Wiebke Pausch

Wiebke Pausch

We’re fortunate that Wiebke Pausch has generously offered to lead our daily meditation sessions for Europe and the UK. To find out more about Wiebke, and to view her other contributions to Sangha Live, click here. Recordings will be posted by the end of the day of the live session.

 

 

This week’s topic is “Awaken Self-Compassion”

 

For many of us it is easier to be friendly and compassionate with others than with ourselves. Old conditioning, limiting beliefs of not being worthy of love and are confining our hearts. Compassion is an essential part of our true nature. We all know how to be gentle and compassionate with ourselves – this is how we survived situations of suffering and loss in our lives.

 

This week we will be exploring how to awaken Self-Compassion, allowing our hearts to soften and open with care. With a tender heart we begin naturally to respond to the world around us with clarity and compassion.

 

“You can search the whole tenfold universe and not find a single being more worthy of love and compassion than the one seated here—yourself.” Buddha

 

Why Practice Self-Compassion?

October 31, 2022

Mindfulness and Compassion for Ourselves - the Two Wings of a Bird

November 1, 2022

Challenges of the Practice

November 2, 2022

Being Fully Human

November 3, 2022

Allowing the Heart to Rest

November 4, 2022

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