Living compassionately requires us to be gentle, to feel spacious and to be brave enough to sift through the inner ingredients of our thoughts and feelings and the stories they tell us. This is why a meditative practice can be so powerful in shifting our mindsets. When we carve out space and time, stillness and quiet, a place to contemplate and to be present for those thoughts and feelings that bubble away within us, then we are doing powerful inner work.
Meditation can be like taking the ingredients of our inner world, laying them out in front of us and deciding which are truly nourishing and which are junk. In
