When faced with painful experiences—both personal and collective—it’s easy to be overcome by grief, anger, fear, and anxiety.
We invite you to explore these wisdom teachings and practices.
Provided by trusted Omega teachers, they help us remember the resilience of the human spirit, and fuel our capacity to connect, heal, and serve.
Watch as Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön explains how to be angry in a way that leads to tender forgiveness, not a cycle of rage, shame, and guilt.
What author Mark Matousek has learned can help us all remember the resilience of the human spirit, no matter what challenges we face.
Approaching forgiveness as an ongoing grieving process acknowledges its complexity and makes room for us to work at it at our own pace, say meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg and Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman.
Zen teacher, activist, and author Rev. angel Kyodo williams Roshi describes how nurturing a sense of inner well-being results in outward action that doesn't feel like struggle.
Author and indigenous rights activist Sherri Mitchell explains how pain stemming from historical trauma can form barriers between us and others. She encourages each of us to recognize and embrace this pain to bridge our barriers to each other and creation itself.
Try this simple 7-minute sequence to help release this tightly held emotion and soothe the nervous system.
Author, artist, and psychotherapist Resmaa Menakem on the power of recognizing, accepting, and moving through pain.
Dawson Church, founding director of the Veterans Stress Project, says he has used this healing technique at many natural disasters.
