A Breath of Hope: A Modified Tonglen Meditation for Practitioners
Mindfulness June 20, 2026 Dan Tomasulo
Compassion-based meditation practices, including Tonglen, offer promise for emotional self-regulation, yet Tonglen remains underutilized in contemporary clinical and applied settings. This paper introduces Hope Breath, a brief three-minute adaptation of Tonglen meditation designed to simultaneously downregulate negative emotions and upregulate positive states. The aim was to provide...