Classical games
Mettā: if you can wish well to your enemy, you can wish well to yourself in the worst time. Start easy though: puppies, babies, your early selves:
Guided Metta (Unconditional Love) with Joshua Bee Alafia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpSDtws_o44
Tonglen: Turn pain into love, with a bit of imagination. Breath in the bad/pain/hate of the world as thick smoke, exhale good/light/love and send it back. Handle with care, can be triggering.
Somatics
Qi-gong: flow into the observer, one funny wave at a time.
Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises: shake the tree, drop the contractions. Just a few minutes of stretching to tire the muscles give way to an ebb and flow of shaking and vibrations, as the body releases one contraction after the other.
TRE Follow-Along Session with Dr. Berceli: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoB9wpuO688
Livres
Pema Chödrön — When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/687278.When_Things_Fall_Apart
A tad orthodox and her books can be mostly fluff, but many people connect with them. She pushes Tonglen hard (her only practice?). Her pith phrases are powerful mantras to live for:
“Since death is certain, and time of death is uncertain; what is important?”
“Feel the feelings. Drop the stories.”
Therapy
Internal Family Systems (aka Pixar's Inside Out) therapy
Comprehensive protocol to chat up and bring closure and agreement to our subpersonalities, whether angels or devils.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNtussFaYC0
https://insighttimer.com/drrichardschwartz
Jay Earley — Self-Therapy: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Inner Wholeness Using IFS: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6969927-self-therapy
Système de motifs de Jay Earley: https://chema.medio.click/root-rinse-rise/jay-earleys-pattern-system/
IFS+Mindfulness+Somatics:
Susan McConnell — A Practitioner's Guide to Somatic IFS: Awareness, Breath, Resonance, Movement and Touch in Practice: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55468867-a-practitioner-s-guide-to-somatic-ifs
Bio-emotive framework:
Express trigger therapy, a focused derivation of Focusing. Some meditators use the core feelings triggers to clear up before practice.
Quick assessment of core and relational feelings: https://bioemotiveframework.com/free-downloads/
Brief instruction: https://www.reddit.com/r/streamentry/comments/cnvfbz/practicehealth_douglas_tataryns_emotional/
Doug'sbio-emotive table.
Guided audio session by Doug (fixed link): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYnoyadWPFg
Poetry and Music
Bhakti yoga devotional chanting
- Krishna Das: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LEeMdzKSFp8
- Acyuta Gopi: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ExULtRAVi6w
Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words by David Whyte
https://dynamic.wakingup.com/course/CD8260
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24108839-consolations
Close: "We live by unconsciously measuring the inverse distances of our proximity... An intimacy calibrated by the vulnerability we feel in giving up our sense of separation ... we might be equal to the inevitable loss that the vulnerability of being close will bring."
Murray Hidary — The Path to Presence: piano guided walking meditations on emotions:
https://www.onecommune.com/presence
Excerpt on Love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tVBAT7GpHg
MindTravel concert-meditation: https://youtu.be/2NO5VJvk96A?t=803