6: Intro to Mindfulness Meditation: Difficult Emotions, Compassion and Awakening

This is the last of six guided meditations, which will provide you with a firm foundation to begin and deepen your mindfulness, insight, meditation practice. This session provides guidance in how to work with difficult emotions.  We tend to delight in pleasant emotions and struggle to get rid of the unpleasant ones.  Mindfulness will allow you to meet emotions of all kinds as guides and teachers. When challenging emotions are present we are guided to turn toward them with love and compassion: to embrace rather than hate them.  As we allow ourselves to become intimate with them they reveal their true impermanent and impersonal nature. we learn to rest with our hearts open in the middle of all of the challenges of life.    🙏 SUPPORT THIS WORK These teachings are offered freely in the Buddhist tradition of dana (generosity). If this practice benefits you, please consider supporting: linktr.ee/robertbeatty   📿 MORE RESOURCES - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@robertbeattybuddhistmeditation - Website: robertbeatty.com - Weekly Thursday meditation class (starting January 2025) - Individual sessions (first session free)