Compassion Archive

Self-Esteem vs. Self-Compassion: Understanding the Difference

Explore self-compassion as a nurturing approach to self-worth, distinct from self-esteem’s evaluative nature. Begin your journey to inner kindness.

Kindness Meditation Script for Your Thinking Mind

Be kind to your mind with this kindness meditation script. Download this script to use when working with others or in your personal practice.

A Loving Body Scan Self-Compassion Meditation Script

Learn to let go of self-judgment and love your body with this self-compassion body scan. A self-compassion meditation script PDF for you or to share with others.

A Compassion Meditation for Emotions

Learn how to bring care and kindness to all of your emotions with this compassion meditation for emotions. Download now for personal or professional use.

The Blanket of Love: A Self Love Meditation Script

Wrap yourself in The Blanket of Love, a self love meditation script to increase self-compassion. Use this practice for yourself or to guide others.

An Intention Meditation Script for Self-Compassion

Deepen your heartfelt intention for self-kindness using this intention meditation script. Download today for personal or professional use.

A Meditation For Self-Care And Caring For Others

In this guided meditation for self-care, we pause to wish ourselves well, and then send these same wishes to others. We learn that by giving, we receive.

A Breathing Self-Compassion Meditation Script

This guided meditation script combines breath awareness with compassion for the self. Use it to help yourself or someone else cultivate self-compassion.

• Dr. Gabor Mate

Self-Compassion Guide for Mindfulness Teachers

Feel more self-compassion as a mindfulness teacher by using insights from Dr. Gabor Maté’s compassionate inquiry.

Mindful Compassion: Living with Fullness, Connection, and Awareness

Can we live with compassion without practicing mindfulness? Do both need to exist to lead an engaged and present life?

Identifying Self-Judgment and Bringing in Self-Compassion

This meditation is to support us in identifying our self-judgment and then bringing self-compassion to meet it. Download “Identifying Self-Judgment and Bringing in Self-Compassion” by entering your name and email below:DOWNLOAD NOW Download “Identifying Self-Judgment and Bringing in Self-Compassion“ by entering your name and email below:DOWNLOAD NOW Here’s a Sample of the “Identifying Self-Judgment and […]

Directional Compassion

This meditation is a gentle reminder that even if we are physically alone or feel like we are the only one to face this challenge, we are never truly alone. Our experience is common to all of humanity. Download “Directional Compassion” by entering your name and email below:DOWNLOAD NOW Download “Directional Compassion“ by entering your […]

Self-Compassion Pause

Let’s take a moment to pause – to tune into our experience with presence, curiosity, and self-compassion. Download “Self-Compassion Pause” by entering your name and email below:DOWNLOAD NOW Download “Self-Compassion Pause“ by entering your name and email below:DOWNLOAD NOW Here’s a Sample of the “Self-Compassion Pause” Guided Meditation Script: Let’s take a moment to pause […]

Compassion for the Whole Body

Hello, and welcome to this gentle guided meditation practice that will invite you to cultivate compassion for your whole body. Before we get started, take a moment to find a comfortable position either seated or lying down. Download “Compassion for the Whole Body Script” by entering your name and email below:DOWNLOAD NOW Download “Directional Compassion“ […]

Meditation with a Pet

Meditation with a Pet. This isn’t a formal meditation, but more of an experience that can be done in the company of a pet, familiar with you.

Loving Kindness Meditation Script

Loving Kindness Meditation Script. Motivate the mind “To be kinder, both to myself and others.” Or, “to accept myself as I am, and life as it is.”

Loving Kindness – The Child

Loving Kindness – The Child. Children and babies have an extraordinary way of bringing us into the present moment – that’s where they dwell!

Sleep Meditation – Compassion for Friend

Sleep meditation – Compassion for Friend. Today, bring to mind someone from your life who you care about and you know that there’s difficulty.

Sleep Meditation – Compassion for Friend and Self

Sleep Meditation – Compassion for Friend and Self. Today, we’ll expand and move our compassion outward onto a broader range.

Mindfulness Body Scan for Self Compassion

Mindfulness body scan for self compassion. The intent is to send words of loving kindness to our body & deepen acceptance & awareness.

The Mother Meditation Guided Script

The Mother Meditation. You have lived countless past lives. In each of these past lives, you had a mother. And you’ve had infinite past mothers. Infinite.

Cultivating a Stable Mind

Cultivating a Stable Mind. With equanimity practice, you cultivate a state of mind that is both grounded and flexible, esp in the midst of intense emotional experiences.

Forgiveness Meditation

Meditation Script Forgiveness Meditation. It may seem daunting to forgive people, and instances of your past that hurt you. But its actually very easy.

Intention to be Happy

Intention to be Happy. The practice of Metta, or loving-kindness, can help you respond to your own mind with friendliness. With a caring and gentle heart.

Making Room for Pain or Discomfort

Making Room for Pain or Discomfort. You tense the body when struggling, trying to get rid of the unpleasantness. Instead, you can make room for the pain.

Recognition and Care for Those Who Frustrate You

A Meditation Script: Recognition and Care for Those Who Frustrate You. You can open the heart and train it to respond with care for those who frustrate you.

Reduce Envy And Celebrate Others

Reduce envy and celebrate others. This guided script is a celebration of loving-kindness. It wishes the abundance of goodness and love for all beings.

8 Meditation Scripts for Stress

8 Mindfulness Exercises for Love and Compassion. Where we come into greater resonance with this powerful force of love that rests at the core of each of us.

Mindful Media

Mindful Media. Media is a major stressor. This script (that reads like an exercise) helps its readers and listeners to engage more consciously with media.

8 Mindfulness Exercises for Love and Compassion

8 Mindfulness Exercises for Love and Compassion. Where we come into greater resonance with this powerful force of love that rests at the core of each of us.

Free Self-Compassion Exercises

There’s nothing wrong with taking care of yourself in time of suffering. Prioritize self-compassion through mindfulness exercises for your well-being.

Don’t Push

Read about the Buddha’s teaching on caring in action as explained by this book by Ajahn Amaro.that investigates the second of the brahma-vihāras – karuṇā.

Street Lovingkindness

Street Lovingkindness. A short & thought-provoking video that lends a new take on how one can & should be while experiencing the stress of standing in line.

Self Compassion Break Worksheet

Practicing self-compassion is important to achieving greater clarity, compassion, & mindfulness in our lives. Try this free mindfulness exercise worksheet.

Jon Kabat-Zinn: Compassion And Mindfulness

We are inherently compassionate. The spaciousness of compassion is pure awareness. Mindfulness can help unlock that compassion in us.

Tonglen

Feeling stuck, cold, alienated, loveless, or alone? Open up yourself to love and connection with others by practicing this mindfulness exercise on Tonglen.

Letter of Self-Compassion

The writing for self-compassion is an exercise that is designed to help cultivate and promote self-compassion through writing.

Dear Future Generations: Sorry [Video]

An apology letter to future generations, this video speaks of how we leave the planet in a sad state to our children’s children.

Seeing Goodness in Others

Seeing the goodness in someone can improve your interactions and relationship with that person, and also bring out the best in him or her. Namaste!

Loving-Kindness Affirmations

Practicing loving-kindness meditation is an important component of living a compassionate, mindful life. Check out free exercise here.

Guided Heart Meditation: Metta [Audio]

Guided Heart Meditation: Metta. This is a journey that you start when you’re inside yourself, and also this journey will continue within yourself.

Meeting Mindfulness with Kindness

Mindfulness is re-mindfulness, there’s never any failure with it. And it’s why mindfulness is a way of inviting and practicing kindness toward yourself.

What Can We Learn Through Betrayal?

Eckhart Tolle tells us what we can learn through betrayal, reminding us to be careful with the stories the mind creates so we can spare ourselves pain.

Guided Loving Kindness Meditation [Audio]

Guided Loving Kindness Meditation is an essential aspect of the spiritual path. Free mindfulness meditation can increase ones ability to feel and respond. Guided Loving Kindness Meditation, by Pat Coffey: [ai_playlist id=”195744″] About Pat Coffey: Pat Coffey, MEd, began his meditation practice over 30 years ago and has taught meditation since 1996. He studied with numerous […]

Awakening the Heart ~ by Thich Nhat Hanh [Video]

Thich Nhat Hanh, a respected Zen master, has the answer to the question “what is mindfulness” in this video on awakening the heart. Published on Oct 11, 2013 What is Mindfulness? Mindfulness is the energy of being aware and awake to the present moment. It is the continuous practice of touching life deeply in every […]

• Joseph Goldstein

Guided Metta Meditation with Joseph Goldstein [Video]

Short introductory dharma talk on Metta followed by a guided meditation with Buddhist teacher Joseph Goldstein. Some Q&A with the teacher at the end.

Simple Kindness

Enter your name and email address to download this ebook. Here Is Your Free Ebook: The Four Noble Truths There’s a story with which many of you are probably familiar, that begins with the Buddha walking in the woods with some of his disciples. At one point the Buddha bends down and picks up a […]

• Kristin Neff

How To Be Self-Compassionate

Kristin Neff: Overcoming objections to self-compassion considers–and rebuts–some of the main objections to treating yourself with kindness. Published on Oct 16, 2014 The world’s leading researcher of self-compassion and founder of the Mindful Self-Compassion program considers–and rebuts–some of the main objections to treating yourself with kindness. For another article on self-compassion, please visit our friends […]

Loving Kindness for Our Benefactor [Audio]

Loving kindness is an essential aspect of the spiritual path. Read this Guided Loving Kindness Meditation for our Benefactor, by Anushka Fernandopulle Guided Loving Kindness Meditation for our Benefactor, by Anushka Fernandopulle: Meta-practice, we’ll start with what’s easiest. And even where it seems to be easiest, sometimes it’s not easiest. So then, we’ll throw in […]

• Bonnie Duran

Guided Compassion Meditation [Audio]

Listen to this Guided Compassion Meditation. The right intention is knowing what’s in our mind and applying the right approach to whatever is in the mind. Guided Compassion Meditation by Bonnie Duran: So, we know that compassion is one of four Brahma Vihara’s. It’s a very wholesome and important mental quality. It’s actually one of the […]

Building Empathy

Download “Building Empathy” by entering your name and email below:DOWNLOAD NOW Building Empathy with Mindfulness This mindfulness worksheet outlines a simple practice that can help us to feel greater empathy for anyone we meet. It invites us to put ourselves in another person’s shoes – to experience the world as they do. Over time, this […]

Food for the Heart

Enter your name and email address to download this ebook. Here Is Your Free Ebook: j Detachment Within Activity Given at Wat Pah Pong during the rains retreat, 1977. Take a look at the example of the Buddha. Both in his own practice and in his methods for teaching the disciples he was exemplary. The […]

Knowing the Consequences of Your Behavior

Download “Knowing the Consequences of Your Behavior” by entering your name and email below:DOWNLOAD NOW With mindfulness exercises, you can know the consequences of your behavior. The way we conduct ourselves will always shift our inner posture, changing the way we interact with the world around us. For example, if you walk around with clenched […]

Cultivating a Quality or Virtue

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