Buddhist Practices that Mitigate Trauma

You have some experience with practice. Now the question is how to go deeper — and why certain methods work when others don’t.

This path moves into the practice itself: the specific techniques these traditions developed, the mechanics behind them, and the territory each one is designed to navigate.

This is not theory. It is a map of methods — precise enough to be useful, honest about what each approach is and isn’t suited for.

What you’ll find in this path:

• Concentration practices — how to build and sustain stable attention
• Insight practices — how to use attention to investigate experience directly
• Working with difficult states — fear, grief, anger, restlessness
• Metta and compassion practices — the mechanics, not just the aspiration
• Body-based contemplative approaches — where ancient practice and somatic science meet
• How these methods relate to each other — and how to build a coherent practice

Each area has its own sub-path. You can move through them in sequence or go directly to what’s most relevant.

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1. Concentration Practices
2. Insight Practices
3. Working with Difficult States
4. Metta and Compassion Practices
5. Body-Based Contemplative Approaches
6. How These Methods Relate

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