Affectionate Breathing Practice gives you the opportunity to bring kindness to yourself whilst breathing in and out. People generally find it soothing and relaxing and it is a good place to start practising mindful self-compassion.
Compassionate Body Scan is a helpful practice to start coming into a friendlier relationship with your whole body, especially if you have an illness, fatigue or are living with pain.
Compassion for Self and Others allows you to practice breathing in kindness to yourself and breathing out kindness to any beings who you think about. It is a more advanced practice and better to start with Affectionate Breathing and Giving and Receiving Compassion.
Compassionate Letter to Myself is an opportunity to write a kind and compassionate letter to yourself offering yourself words that are helpful and supportive.
Compassionate Friend is a practice where you use your imagination to help you get in touch with kindness and compassion for yourself.
Compassion with Equanimity is a very helpful practice if you are caring for others and finding it difficult and exhausting.
Finding Loving Kindness Phrases is the initial practice to start exploring the use of kind words and see what that is like.
Giving and Receiving Compassion is a practice where you breathe in kindness and compassion for yourself and breathe out kindness and compassion for someone else who needs it too.
Grounding Mindfulness Practice is a short practice to help you feel more grounded and less stressed, you can use it at any time.
Loving Kindness for a Loved One is a practice to bring kindness to yourself, starting by giving kindness to someone else first then including yourself as well.
Loving Kindness of Ourselves is a practise where you start giving yourself the words of support that you need to hear.
Mindful Body Scan is a way of practising how to bring attention and awareness to your present moment experience. It is a longer practice and is often done lying down.
Self-Compassion Break is a short practice that you can apply in daily life when you are struggling. Once you have learnt it, you can apply it in a few moments.
Self-Compassion in Daily Life gives you ways to reflect on how you already support yourself in different aspects of your daily life.
Setting an Intention You connect with your core values, then write a clear, positive, and open-ended intention to support you to stay connected with these.
Soft Landing is a practice to help you arrive more fully in the present moment and ground yourself in a kind and friendly way.
Soften Soothe Allow is a practice to support you in meeting difficult thoughts, emotions and physical sensations that are here for you.
Soles of the Feet is a practice usually done standing where you bring attention to the soles of your feet and their contact with the ground beneath you as a way of arriving and grounding more fully in the present moment.
Soothing and Supportive Touch practice helps you explore physical ways to support yourself using touch when you need it.
STOP practice is a short exercise for to take a moment to Stop, Take a breath, Observe, Proceed mindfully.