This is the BBC World Service. I'm Nula McGovern and welcome to World of Wisdom

where we offer inspiration to those who have struggled during the coronavirus pandemic.

Three spiritual advisors are offering life lessons to

members of the public who have contacted us from all over the world. Dr.

Schifali Sabri is from India and brings Eastern philosophies to her

perspective as a clinical psychologist. Eckart Tulli is originally from

Germany and the author of books including a new earth awakening to your life's purpose.

Now sister Dangiem is Vietnamese and a Buddhist nun. If you heard her in our other edition you cannot fail to have been moved by her advice to Chitalu, who was from Zambia.

He was suffering after being severely ill. Before every session she brings a relaxed focus with the use of a bell like this.

My dear ones, before we start this session together, let us enjoy three sounds of the bell.

Let us sit beautifully with our back upright, shoulders open and relaxed, and we come back to our breathing, breathing

in, aware that the breath is flowing in,

and breathing out,

aware that the breath is flowing out. Okay, my back is upright, my shoulders are open and relaxed.

Unfortunately, we only have time for one sound off the bell. But let's hear Sister Dang Giam with Janus on a difficult subject.

Sister Dang has suffered trauma herself as a child and has written on how to heal from it in her book

Flowers in the Dark. Janice has experienced serious physical abuse during the

pandemic which she does not shy away from discussing openly with

Sister Dang.

Since the pandemic, my life's been pretty much a wreck when my partner had lost his job because of COVID, he basically took it out on my face.

So I was locked down with me and our baby in the Washington DC area and he physically abused

me, you know, strangling me in front of the baby.

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