Brief Guided Meditation for Shame and Self-Compassion | Releasing Shame

This video is a brief guided meditation for shame and self-compassion. This meditation is intended to help you practice mindfulness, defusion, and self-compassion. During this guided meditation, you will focus on your breathing to help you release shame and fill with self-compassion. This video includes beautiful imagery from nature and relaxing background meditation music.

Background Meditation Music Credit:
“Buddha Mind” Julians Taylor
Licensed under Meditate and Create, LLC

About us:
At our core, we all have the capacity to be gentle and kind to ourselves. Different experiences in our past can make it challenging to find this core compassionate self. Past hurt, pain, and sorrow make it difficult for this part of ourselves to shine through. Self-judgement, rumination, and isolation lead us to be less compassionate with ourselves and our experiences. Through intentional practice, we can cultivate and nurture an environment where self-compassion and compassion for others can flourish. As self-compassion and compassion for others grows, it is propagated and spread across the earth. Together we can explore, cultivate, nurture, and propagate compassion.

[kathrynhaddow]

This helped me see that the reason I am so embarrassed about (almost) messing something up at work is because I i care so much about getting it right. I have compassion for myself now. I won't let anyone believe I'm careless - the shame proves that I do care. Thank you!

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Powerful!! I was so embarrassed and shameful about a mess I made. After listening to your meditation, I came with a method to clean based on stuff I've been learning for ADHD. And a bit of compassion peeked through, too. Thanks!

[aklaws]

You have a soothing and comforting voice 🙏 thank you for posting

[katherinemartin]

This unlocked some stuff for me. Thank you! Great work. 100/10

[priscillatorres]

I’ve been meditating consistently for about 2 months now with affirmations and stuff right, and idk what but today I decided to listen to this for the 1st time ever just now. Less than 1 minute in I am CRYING. I now stopped because honestly what I experienced right this moment felt very scary. I’m not sure if I’m ready to revisit this meditation. Idk what to do.