Guided Meditations for Difficult Times

A Lamp in the Darkness

By: PhD Jack Kornfield

Narrated by: PhD Jack Kornfield

Finding Guidance and Courage: A Light in Hard Times

We all face tough times. But how can we meet these difficult situations with a compassionate heart and a clear mind? "Inside each of us is an inner light that I call 'The One Who Knows,'" teaches Jack Kornfield. "Awakening to this wisdom can help us find our way through pain and suffering with grace, tenderness, and curiosity."

Guided Meditations for Difficult Times gives us eight new practices for reconnecting to our inner guide to skillfully navigate life's storms. With his warm teaching style and gift for storytelling, Jack Kornfield invites us to discover:

Equanimity and Peace-how to hold the sorrows and struggles of our world and our selves with balance, while seeing the great peace behind it all
• Shared Compassion-a revolutionary practice for learning to experience painful situations with understanding and care
• Forgiveness-for releasing the past and breaking down barriers to all that is closed in the heart
• Setting Your Highest Intention-a powerful guide for navigating difficulty and awakening to the shining beauty and potential of the human spirit
Our inner wisdom can light the way ahead so that we can take life in stride, teaches Kornfield. Guided Meditations for Difficult Times offers fresh insights and practices for being present, loving, and open in the midst of any life challenge.

Course objectives:

List some of the symptoms of conflict, struggle, and suffering.
• Describe the higher life purpose of hardship.
• Summarize benefits of releasing burdens through forgiveness.
• Practice guided visualizations that promote healing.
• Utilize meditation to gain peace and equanimity.
• Apply practices that help you connect with your highest intentions.

Anything by Jack Karnfield is amazing!!!

What made the experience of listening to Guided Meditations for Difficult Times the most enjoyable?

Great meditations, not really great for the car driving experience, better for home and stillness, but still his words are so inspiring.

The right perspective at the right time.

Honestly I haven gotten beyond chapter 1 of this book because it is so restorative.

Hopeful and comforting message.

It's my favorite audible book from this author. It's helping me through a rough time.
I can listen to it over and over. Music to my ears. Thank you.

Great collection of guided meditations and talks!

This collection of talks and guided meditations by Kornfield is a tool one can use over and over. However, you must use Audible's bookmark tool to mark beginning of each meditation if you wish to access them on demand, as the audio is not pre-split in this way.

A Compassionate guide

Any additional comments?

I can't say enough about how much I appreciate listening and relistening to this recording. Jack Kornfield uses humor, insight, and great compassion to put words to whatever disaster has occurred in your life. He then gently guides the listener through a series of mediations that help to inspire, strengthen and provide perspective. He says that it isn't a self help book, but help it does. The author provides a new way of viewing the world and teaches a set of coping skills that really make a difference. The narration is centered, evenly paced and calming. The content is humane and kind. Highly recommended listening.