Working With Emotions
Can meditation help me deal with grief and loss?
When you're navigating grief it can be particularly helpful to practice loving-kindness for yourself and your loved ones. Sharon Salzberg teaches this in her course 10% Nicer and meditations for grief and loss in the app might be help you work through it:
- Working with Grief | Sebene Selassie
- Feeling Grief | Sharon Salzberg
- Losing Someone You Love | Alexis Santos
- When Grief Arrives | Oren Jay Sofer
Self-compassion work might also be helpful. Self-compassion work can help with the difficult feelings and pain of reconciling the loss you're going through. We have some self-compassion lessons from meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein in the Ten Percent Happier course, Compassion. You might also try:
- Three Steps Toward Self-Compassion | Alexis Santos
- Self-Compassion | Sharon Salzberg
- See Yourself Compassionately | Jess Morey
- Self-Compassion | Joseph Goldstein
You'll find more resources in our Help Center article Mindfulness Meditation for Grief.
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