Q: "What practices do you recommend during the first few months of intense grief?"

(approx. 9 minutes) KEYWORDS: Q: "After a bereavement I found it impossible to sit in meditation (breath and body scan). There was too much agitation in the mind and no motivation to meditate. What Buddhist practices do you recommend during the first few months of intense grief?" Wound, judging, healing, massage, relationship to pain, perception of absence, allowing, shared predicament.

Q: "How can we learn to really let go of deep trauma?"

(approx. 12 minutes) KEYWORDS: “When you've been affected by a deep personal trauma that results in emotional responses such as ' betrayal', 'deep disappointment ', 'ingratitude', and so forth, how can we learn to really 'let go'?” (approx. 12 minutes) KEYWORDS: 'How can we wisely address our impacted body mind states? Whilst the head can come to a better place, the heart continuously struggles. How can we move beyond regret, and the deluded self?' Vibhavatanha, printing press, self-improvement, in-breath, victims, denied dukkha, Vulture’s Peak, backlog, overwhelmed, sadness, anger, good friends, exercise routine, singing, compassion.