Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves and shift our response

Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.

Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.

While you are meditating, if your mind wanders, gently bring it back to the present moment.

Compassion allows us to use our own pain and the pain of others as a vehicle for connection. This is a delicate and profound path. We may be adverse to seeing our own suffering because it tends to ignite a blaze of self-blame and regret. And we may be adverse to seeing suffering in others because we find it unbearable or distasteful, or we find it threatening to our own happiness. All of these possible reactions to the suffering in the word make us want to turn away from life.

Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others

Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.