Hello there and welcome back to practicing human. This is the podcast where every day we are

practicing getting a little better at life. I am your host, Corey Muscarra.

And in today's episode, I'm going to share a practice

that can help transform suffering

into compassion, shift a sense of selfishness to a sense of selflessness, and overall

give you a new found sense of strength and empowerment amid the great pain and suffering that's often surrounding us.

I'll share more about that practice in a moment, but first let's settle in with the sound of the bell. So the practice I want to share with you today is an ancient Buddhist practice called

Tong Glen. That's T-O-N-G-L-E-N, T-G-L-E-N, Tong-G-L-E-N-G-L-N-G-L-E-N-G-L-E-N-G-L-E-N-G-L-E-N-Tang-G-L-E-N-T-G-L-N-G-L-E-N, and this is different than a normal awareness of breath meditation, awareness type meditation as there's more structure visualization and

agenda with the practice which is specifically to move toward welcome and embrace the

suffering of others other beings beings, people, animals, the world, or even yourself, and then once you take

that in, you offer back out compassion, relief, ease, peace.

So I'll walk you through some of the details, or more of the details in a moment, but in general this looks like taking an inhale and on that

inhale feeling and imagining that you're taking on the suffering of another person,

someone that you know that might have cancer

or is dying or is grieving.

And you know how hard it can be to be in the presence of that person's pain and

suffering.

A lot of times our response is to quickly turn away or to try to make it better for that person or to not really

like be able to stay in the intensity of the suffering with that person.

So here, if you're doing this practice just by yourself,

you would imagine that person's suffering

and you on the inhale, that in taking that on even bringing in

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