Tonglen with Geshe Michael

This meditation offers a short but powerful practice that begins with steadying the breath and inviting the presence of a teacher for support. The meditator then looks ahead to the coming day, identifying a likely emotional challenge and visualizing their future self experiencing it. Using a gentle form of tonglen, they draw in the imagined distress, dissolve it with inner clarity, and breathe out the opposite quality. This strengthens awareness, encourages confidence in facing difficulties, and plants the seeds for a more compassionate response later in the day and ease.