BREATHE: Right Now, It's Like This

About this episode

This episode discusses how to pause and breathe during difficult times to regain presence and respond wisely to challenges.

During difficult times, allowing ourselves to pause, breathe, and come back home to the present moment is exactly how we can regain our footing, become more grounded, and shore up our ability to more wisely respond instead of automatically react to whatever's happening. This talk offers us a variety of ways that our meditation practice can help us learn to rest our attention in awareness itself, and discover more calm, compassion, and wisdom in the face of our challenges. It includes a brief meditation at the end.

Topics covered

• meditation
• mindfulness
• present moment
• compassion
• wisdom

Keywords

• grounded
• awareness
• calm
• challenges

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