Welcome to the Broken Hearts Club
a.k.a. Meditations for Healing from Heartbreak
With Lodro Rinzler
below you will find the most recent resources for our community
Welcome to a space for those of us who are going through it.
Our full curriculum:
Class 1: Why Your Heart Breaks: Navigating Our Expectations
Class 2: Four Questions That Help Us Process a Broken Heart
Class 3: Strong Emotions: Ride Them or They Will Ride You
Class 4: Navigating Impermanence: Staying Grounded in the Face of Uncertainty
Class 5: Four Ways of Loving: Learning to Love Anew
Have questions for me as part of the class? Email me and I’ll answer them in an upcoming videos
CLASS 1
Why Your Heart Breaks: Navigating Our Expectations
Meditation for Week 1: Mindfulness: Counting the Breath
Post Meditation Practice for Week 1: Be in Nature
For at least a few minutes a day (or one long stretch this week) just allow yourself to be outside. Feel the sun on your skin. Feel the earth through your feet. Admire a bird building her nest. Simply rest your mind for a while and connect to the world around you.
CLASS 2
Four Questions That Help Us Process a Broken Heart
Meditation for this Week: Mindfulness: Gatha Meditation
The above is the recommended meditation for the second week where we label each aspect of the breath, calming the body on the inbreath, smiling on the outbreath.
Post Meditation Practice for this Week: The Four Exhillarations
Take the time to try and practice all four of the techniques listed in the video in one day (eating well, sleeping well, meditation and exercise). See how you feel having done all four in one day.
CLASS 3
Strong Emotions: Ride Them or They Will Ride You
Meditation for this Week: Mindfulness of Emotions and R.A.I.N.
The above is the two recommended meditations for the coming weeks. The former is us tuning into the emotions themselves, similar to how we tune into the breath, whereas the former is a four step process of working with emotions. Next week we will receive a new technique!
Post Meditation Practice for this Week: 3 On the Spot Techniques
Play with the three on the spot techniques introduced in today’s video:
Is This Helpful?
What Can I Enjoy Right Now?
What Am I Grateful for Today?
CLASS 4
Navigating Impermanence: Staying Grounded in the Face of Uncertainty
Meditation for this Week: Mindfulness-Awareness Meditation
The above is the recommended meditation for the coming week. It is a bit longer than before (15 minutes vs. 10) but I truly believe you can do it! As mentioned in the video above, I recommend continuing on with the emotions practices as well.
Post Meditation Practice for this Week: Journaling on Positive Change
Check out the 3 minute video below on this week’s post meditation practice: journaling!
CLASS 5
Four Ways of Loving: Learning to Love Anew
Meditation for this Week: Loving-Kindness
The above is the recommended meditation for going forward, alongside your choice of mindfulness of the breath technique. It is a bit longer than before (15 minutes vs. 10).
Post Meditation Practice for this Week: Aspiration
As mentioned in this week’s teaching, particularly when you find yourself lost in stories around heartbreak, offer yourself the aspiration “May I learn to look at myself with the eyes of understanding and compassion.”