Dear Friends,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We’re over halfway through this month of reflection and practice! And maybe you notice times you are discouraged that your practice isn’t going “better,” or you are sure you’re just not getting it, or other stories of self-judgment or shame. The RAIN practice discussed yesterday is one way to work with these kind of thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jeanne has another acronym that we can use, based on the self-compassion work pioneered by Kristin Neff and Christopher Germer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The simple form of Jeanne’s acronym is MUK<\/strong>. When we notice we are experiencing self-judgment, self-criticism, or difficult emotions we can try these three steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kirstin Neff calls her version of these steps the Self-Compassion Break, and you can read about it here: Kristin’s website includes a number of guided meditations – why not try one today? I’ll close with a lovely poem by Derek Walcott, which expresses what might be possible as we do this practice of self-compassion:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Love After Love<\/strong><\/p> The time will come and say, sit here. Eat. all your life, whom you ignored the photographs, the desperate notes, You can find a recording of Jon Kabat-Zinn reading this poem here: With kindness and care, Dear Friends, We’re over halfway through this month of reflection and practice! And maybe you notice times you are discouraged that your practice isn’t going “better,” or you are sure you’re just not getting it, or other stories of self-judgment or shame. The RAIN practice discussed yesterday is one way to work with these kind of thoughts. Jeanne\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[238],"tags":[58,289,32,57],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jan-2021","tag-compassion","tag-derek-walcott","tag-jeanne-corrigal","tag-kristin-neff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1222,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/1222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
https:\/\/self-compassion.org\/exercise-2-self-compassion-break\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
https:\/\/self-compassion.org\/category\/exercises\/#guided-meditations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other\u2019s welcome,<\/p>
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you<\/p>
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,<\/p>
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.<\/p>Derek Walcott, Collected Poems 1948-1984<\/em>.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2015\/04\/21\/love-after-love-derek-walcott\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Andrea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"