Mindful Exhalations
A short film of UK artist, Sam Winston, who for 15 consecutive hours drew one line for each of his...
How To Open Your Own Heart
by Jeff Foster Do not try to open your heart now. That would be a subtle movement of aggression...
Journaling Practice
A regular journaling practice can be a key support to your growing personal awareness and growth. ...
The Way It Is
"The Way It Is" by William Stafford There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change....
Core Values
"If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my...
When Illness Become the Cure
https://humansandnature.org/when-illness-becomes-the-cure-a-personal-account-of-covid-19/
The Labyrinth to Shared Happiness by Mark Nepo
Though I run to get out of the rain, it’s standing in the rain with my hands on my heart that is...
Protective Self-Compassion Break
Sometimes the most compassionate thing we can do for ourselves is soften our hearts and treat...
MSC Practice: Self-Compassion in Daily Life
While we are learning many new ways to cultivate self-compassion, it is helpful to remember the...
MSC Practice: Soles of the Feet
This is an effective way to anchor your awareness in the present moment, in body sensation,...
MSC Practice: Supportive Touch
One easy way to care for and comfort yourself when you’re feeling badly is to give yourself...
Just Like Me
This practice can be found in the book, Walking Each Other Home (2018), by Ram Dass and Mirabai...
Self-Compassion Break for Shame
Self-Compassion Break is a fundamental practice taught in the Mindful Self-Compassion Training. ...
Compassionate U-Turn
This meditation was developed by Dr. Chris Germer: Instructions “Please find a comfortable...
Connecting with the Wish to Be Loved
This resourcing practice meditation was offered by Dr. Chris Germer during his recent workshop on...
How to be Alone by Padraig O-Tuama
How To Be Alone by Padraig O’Tuama It all begins with knowing nothing lasts forever. So you might...
Compassionate Friend Meditation
This meditation helps us discover and connect with a wise and compassionate presence within...
My Balm by Jane O’Shea
I close my eyes and sigh, and here I am lying in the hammock in my heart. Moving gently, with the...
Sometimes by David Whyte
This poem by David Whyte is an invitation to reflect into the place which troubles you with "tiny...
Kindness
Kindness Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in...
MSC Practice: 3-Centre Check-In
There is much research to show that simple, brief mindfulness practices can help us cope with...
First Nations Health
The Centre for Compassion Inspired Health acknowledges that we live, learn, and work on the...
Our Story
Start with the ground you know, the pale ground beneath your feet, your own way to begin the...
Felt Sense Prayer
This is a lovey prayer to say before or after doing the Compassionate Body Scan Guided Meditation...
The Way It Is
There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People...
My Self-Compassion Journey
In 2014 I found myself at a week long intensive training in Mindful Self-Compassion on Whidbey...
Letting Go of Striving
MSC is about building resources, skills, and strengths to face our human imperfections with...
Health Benefits of Self-Compassion
Self-criticism does more than make us feel badly. It is actually bad for our health....
Letting Go
“I think most of the spiritual life is really a matter of letting go, ceasing to cling, ceasing to...
The Art of Meditation: The Fly by Hanjin Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAtrogq9vMA