Caring With Wisdom and Compassion - Susan talks with the Tergar Meditation Community on YouTube Live

Watch Susan talk about caring with wisdom and compassion on Tergar Meditation Community’s YouTube Live channel.

Skip ahead in the video to hear Susan talk about:

5 min - Whether helping is always helpful.

6:30 min - How the nervous system responds to stress and how to recognize and connect with innate qualities of awareness, wisdom and compassion.

14 min - Why even teachers need teachers and why it’s important that meditators have meditation teachers.

15:30 min - Mingyur Rinpoche’s 4 step process for working with strong emotions.

18 min - Susan describes open awareness and compares it  to driving a car.   

20 min - Using a snow globe, Susan demonstrates the mindful game Seeing Clearly.

24 min - Susan looks at the booster emotions behind strong emotions that bubble up.

27 min  - Why remembering to take a break is especially important in times of crisis like COVID.  

30 min  - Susan demonstrates three mindful games to help kids and adults become more comfortable with uncertainty. 

37:45 min - Susan describes how she talks to kids about mindfulness and suggests ways to integrate mindfulness  into life at home and school. 

39:30 min - Susan demonstrates a few appreciation games.

41:20 min - Susan demonstrates two mindful games that teach kids (and adults) about discernment.

44:25 min -   Susan talks about control battles and the backward law.

47 - 60 min - Q & A