Week 5 Recap - “Kindness & Coping”
Hi everyone,
Thanks for sticking with it and attending another session yesterday!
What we learned:
This week we flew through two more steps of STOP ACHE GO, covering:
“C” – Compassion, Curiosity towards our experiences, and Common Humanity
“H” – Holding the experience with warmth and sustaining touch
We discussed our capability and intentions to be compassionate with others as well as ourselves. After being led through a kindness-compassion meditation, some of you noticed that it was more difficult to wish ourselves well compared to wishing that for others. Self-compassion is a practice that we can always improve at. That being said, we encourage you to take a look at the home practices for this week and notice what kind of experience the loving-kindness meditation is for you.
As usual, getting into practice recommendations, please take a moment to complete the weekly check-in form. Likewise, please take a moment to send your reflections on the midway check-in to mmhs@challiance.org. The prompts were:
How am I finding the group so far?
Please note any problems/difficulties with:
Body Scan
Mindful Movement
Mindful Sitting
Things I’m learning about myself:
Am I making time to practice—how often—be honest!
Any comments, suggestions, requests?
Home Practice
Formal Practice
Practice the 20 Mindfulness of Breathing guided recording as well as the 20 minute Giving and Receiving Compassion guided recording, for 30-45 minutes/day. You can find recordings on our website here: (www.chacmc.org/mtpcprogram).
Additional recordings:
15 minute Giving and Receiving Compassion
Informal Practice
Start to incorporate Kindness/Compassion and Holding into your practice—for example, you could experiment with holding your hand to your heart.
Final Note
Thank you once again for attending today’s session! As always, please reach out to us if you have any questions.
Warmly,
Ian and the MTPC team
