A compassion-based meditation to try for yourself
You can try out a CFT technique for yourself. Seek out a quiet place where you won’t be interrupted. Find a comfortable position and close your eyes. Allow yourself to imagine the most compassionate, wisest version of yourself possible. Imagine yourself sitting in a pool of beautiful pure light. Decide for yourself what colour best represents for you the quality of pure compassion and tint the light beam accordingly. In your mind’s eye let the light wash over you, soaking into every fibre of your being, and gathering in your core where it grows stronger and sweeter and brighter. Notice how the light makes you feel safe, accepted, and secure. You feel completely at peace. Now imagine that the light ...
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