If You’re Having Trouble With Self-Compassion, Try This | Bonus Meditation with La Sarmiento
Mar 29, 2024
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La Sarmiento, mentor for the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program, discusses the difficulty of self-compassion. They suggest imagining your younger self to soften armor and receive care. Topics include BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and teen meditation retreats, and the practice of cultivating self-compassion through connecting with your inner child.
Imagining your younger self can soften your armor and help you receive the care you deeply deserve.
Connecting with your inner child or teenager can offer words of comfort and encouragement during challenging times, promoting self-kindness and understanding.
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Self-Compassion Meditation with La Sarmiento
La Sarmiento leads a meditation on self-compassion, encouraging listeners to envision a younger version of themselves to cultivate compassion during challenging times. By acknowledging difficult emotions and offering support to their younger self, individuals can practice self-kindness and understanding. The meditation guides individuals to connect with their inner child or teenager, offering words of comfort and encouragement to address feelings of inadequacy or doubt. Through this practice, the importance of self-compassion and nurturing one's inner child is emphasized for emotional well-being.
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Self-compassion can be really difficult. Imagining your younger self can soften your armor and help you receive the care you deeply deserve.
About La Sarmiento:
La Sarmiento (they/them) is a mentor for the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program (MMTCP) and a teacher with Cloud Sangha. They have taught meditation retreats for BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, Teens, and Young Adults, and everyone in-between around the United States since 2010 and are a 2012 graduate of the Spirit Rock Community Dharma Leader Training.
To find this meditation in the Ten Percent Happier app, you can search for “Receiving Self-Compassion.”