Transform Your Upsets with the Tonglen Compassion Meditation




This Exercise Uses the Following Wisdom Skills



Stub only: Open Your Heart to the Whole
Stub only: Visualize, Master the Ideal
Intro written: Emotional Balance
Stub only: Communication
Stub only: Managing and Using Chi Energy


Exercise Details



Duration = 10 minutes.
Difficulty = 65/100.


Use This Exercise:


  1. To transform negative emotions that you have about a situation in your life into a compassionate--or even loving--attitude, and by projecting the energy of this transformation to others who are feeling similar suffering throughout the world.
  2. When you feel isolated in your unhappiness, but you're so focused on your own problems that you don't have the bandwidth to open up to others.
  3. When you feel that no one should ever have to go through what you've gone through, when you want to do something to help others, and when you want to do something that furthers the evolution of the world culture.
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