Meditations for Isolation - Loving Kindness (N219)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In this contemplation, Anna Robinson considers the significance of acknowledging how we are feeling in these uncertain and unsettling times. She considers the importance of kindness and compassion to others and ourselves, recognising our shared human experiences. Anna then leads us into a stilling exercise to help us become fully present, after which she guides us a Loving-Kindness meditation that fosters feelings of compassion and kindness and enables us to feel more connected to those we love and those around us during this time of isolation.Â
David Blower compliments the meditation with original music and ambience.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The The |
| 0:23.6 | The Welcome to Nomad Contemplations. |
| 0:57.0 | These are unprecedented times. |
| 1:02.0 | There are no quick fixes or easy answers. |
| 1:07.0 | We need to pace ourselves. |
| 1:10.0 | And we need to find practices that help us to take care of ourselves and each other. |
| 1:18.6 | We will all be in different circumstances and having different experiences, |
| 1:24.6 | depending on, amongst other things, where we live and what we do. |
| 1:31.7 | Many feelings will be surfacing in response to what is happening, in our own lives, and those we |
| 1:38.1 | read and hear about in the media. |
| 1:42.7 | Being aware of how we're feeling and processing those feelings is really important for our well-being, |
| 1:49.0 | emotionally, physically and spiritually. |
| 1:54.0 | A feelings inventory can be a great tool, giving us a wider vocabulary to describe both positive and uncomfortable feelings that may arise. |
| 2:06.6 | The Centre for Nonviolent Communication have some great resources on their website, |
| 2:12.6 | including an inventory of feelings and a list of core needs. |
| 2:19.3 | Try using these in prayer to increase your awareness of how you are feeling |
| 2:24.3 | and to be more present to yourself and to God. |
| 2:30.3 | Comparative suffering is not helpful. |
| 2:33.3 | That is, not feeling we're justified to feel something, |
| 2:37.0 | because someone else, somewhere, may have it worse than us. |
| 2:42.0 | Feelings are feelings, and they don't go away, just because we dismiss them or ignore them. |
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