This week another Pema Chodron video, I selected it because it seems to hold really good advice for all of us here at DKos. In about 8 minutes it speaks to those with tender, easily hurt hearts. It speaks for people who absolutely lose it from time to time, and it speaks for people who encounter anger and meanness in others and helps all of us to find a way to offer kindness towards ourselves when we miss the mark, and kindness to others when they, perhaps, are offering unkindness to us.
Enjoy!
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Good evening and welcome to Monday Group Meditation. We will be sitting from 8:00 to 10:30 PM Eastern Time. It is not necessary to sit for the entire extended time, which is set up to make it convenient for people in four North American Time Zones; sit for as long as you like and when it is most convenient for you. Monday Group Meditation is open to everyone, believers and non-believers, who are interested in gathering in silence. If you are new to meditation and would like to try it for yourself, Mindful Nature gave a good description of one way to meditate in an earlier diary, copied and pasted below:
"It is a matter of focusing attention mostly. In many traditions, the idea is to sit and focus on the rising and falling of the breath. Not controlling it, but sitting in a relaxed fashion and merely observing experiences of breathing, sounds, etc. Be aware of your thoughts, but don't engage in them. When your mind wanders (it will, often), then return to focus on breath and repeat."
Note: You are also welcome to join us on Sunday mornings at 10:00AM for the Dkos Sangha Open Threads which are hosted by davehouck.