Mindfulness for Grief

If you're grieving, please know that you're not alone. We're wishing you ease. Here are some resources for you to explore.

Our Meditation FAQ has articles written by our meditation teachers that answer lots of common questions related to the practice of meditation. You might start with Can meditation help me deal with grief?

Meditations 

Open this email on the same phone you use for the app and you can tap on the blue links to get directly to the meditation. You can also use the search function.

If you can find one or more of these that feels helpful to you, you can practice it over and over so that when grief hits, you have the strategy at hand.

• Opening to Strong Emotions with Joseph Goldstein
• Accepting Difficult Emotions with Joseph Goldstein
• Fear with Joseph Goldstein
• Sadness with Oren Jay Sofer
• Working with Grief with Sebene Selassie
• RAIN with Jeff Warren
• Forgiveness Meditation with JoAnna Hardy
• Anger with Oren Jay Sofer
• Feeling Grief with Sharon Salzberg
• Losing Someone You Love with Alexis Santos
• When Grief Arrives with Oren Jay Sofer

Podcast Episodes

• Grief and Meditation | Joe DiNardo
• The Science of Handling Uncertainty | Maya Shankar
• How to Suffer Well | Brother Pháp Dung
• The Profound Upsides of Mortality | Nikki Mirghafori, PhD
• Sharon Salzberg, A Meditation Master Stares Down Death
• The Importance of Dying Before You Die, Helen Tworkov
• Mirabai Bush, Conversations on Loving and Dying
• Frank Ostaseski, What Death Can Teach Us About Living

• The Science of Loss and Recovery | Mary-Frances O’Connor

Teacher Talks

• Grief is Natural | Craig Hase
• How Mindfulness Helped Me Cope with Death | Brian Simmons

You can find more content in the app with the search function. Type in the word grief and see what comes up. This Help Center article, Use the Search Function in the App, might help.