Practice Guide : Tonglen - Letting In & Letting Go

The ancient practice of Tonglen, literally translated to "taking in and sending out."

This practice can support you to release what is no longer serving you and invite in what does support you. This is a practical way to let go by working with the natural flow of your breath.

Practice Guide : Steps of Letting Go

Can you surrender the idea that (your stuckness, your difficulty) is a bad thing?

Can some part of you remember when you’re hurting that your hurt is not failure, it’s feedback… and being with, allowing that hurt to be there (not as a bad thing) that’s where the light will shine through.

Practice Guide : Practice of Taking a Pause

Learning to pause is the first step of Radical Acceptance.

You don’t have to sit down on a meditation cushion to practice pause.

Practice Guide : Radical Acceptance

... but how do we get out of the trance? A little something called – Radical Acceptance.

Radical Acceptance is about dismantling (with clarity and compassion) the very foundations of the trance. This practice will help you heal and move on, free from unconscious habits of self-hatred and blame.

Practice Guide : Recognizing the 'Trance of Unworthiness'

The belief that you are deficient and unworthy, that something is wrong with you – that is what I have learned to call, the trance of the unworthiness.

This guide helps you learn more about the trance and build the practice of identifying when you're in it.

Practice Guide : Mental Noting Practice

One tool of mindfulness that can help cut through our distracting and often painful and judgmental thinking is, ‘mental noting’.

Mental noting is the practice of using a simple “note” to calmly name – as a whisper in the mind – what we are experiencing.