Chris Luard

Lovingkindness, Compassion, Joy, Care. With Christopher Luard and Such Sweet Thunder.

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Meditations which allow us to open and welcome the present moment, with compassion, joy, and care. Meditation can be challenging at times. Occasionally we may experience things which surprise as a result. If you have any questions or concerns in regards to this, or other meditation practices, please feel free to message me through my website: www.suchsweetthunder.org

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Chris Luard

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Health

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Latest episode

Jul 1, 2026

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Episodes

Joy in the Midst of Difficulty 01.07.2026

Here is a guided meditation designed to help us remember that in most situations there can be an opportunity to connect with joy. In fact, the more joy we can install in the nervous system, the more room we will have to hold the challenges with grace and ease. Bon Voyage!

Full Court Metta. A Guided Meditation 26.06.2026

Here is a guided meditation where we offer kindness to ourselves, Loved ones, neutral people, challenging people, and the world. Enjoy!

Knowing and Welcoming. A Guided Meditation. 26.06.2026

Here is a guided meditation where we practice knowing things just as they are and welcoming the experience. Enjoy!

Gratitude Meditation 26.06.2026

Here is a guided meditation on the topic of gratitude. Here we dive deep into the somatic quality of gratitude. When we do this we are accessing our neuroplasticity, turning the passing state of gratitude into a permanent trait.

Equanimity. Seeing Through Indifference. A Guided Meditation. 26.06.2026

Here is a guided meditation helping us to see through our indifference which we may carry toward people or situations, helping us to connect to the present moment with care.

Compassion and Equanimity. A Guided Meditation 26.06.2026

Here is a practice designed to help is bring compassion and equanimity to the world. Enjoy!

Compassion and The Inner Critic 26.06.2026

Here is a guided meditation designed to help us engage with that harsh inner dialogue with compassion.

Bringing Acceptance to Experience 26.06.2026

Here is a guided meditation where we are invited to bring a compassionate acceptance to our experience.

Kindness to the parts I like. A Talk and Meditation 26.06.2026

Here is a traditional kindness meditation offered to aspects of ourself which we find enjoyable and agreeable. A lovely practice in warmth and gratitude.

Kindness to The Neutral. A Dharma Talk 26.06.2026

Think about how many people in the world that we do not know. Think about how often we feel bored. What if we could offer kindness to those experiences? This talk is an exploration of that topic. Enjoy!

Kindness to a loved one and our self 26.06.2026

Here is a guided meditation offering kindness to a loved one and to ourself.

A Compassionate Body San 26.06.2026

Here we practice offering a warm, compassionate acceptance to our experience. Since all experience has a physical component, this practice can help us step off the wheel of reactivity and move into responsiveness.

Compassion For The World 26.06.2026

Here is a guided meditation designed to help us cultivate a boundless, radiant compassion toward the entire world.

Hands of Kindness 26.06.2026

Here is a guided meditation moving through a set of postures. These postures are designed to illicit feelings of warmth and goodness from deep within our implicit memory. Developed by Dr Bessel Van Der Kolk and myself. Bon Voyage! Meditation can be challenging at times. Occasionally we may experience things which surprise as a result. If you have any questions or concerns in regards to this, or ot...

Compassion as Insight 26.06.2026

Here I guide us through a meditation using a specific set of phrases that are designed to help us feel into how we resist the experience of Compassion, thus gleaning insight into how we can let those resistances go.

Compassion for someone we care for. 26.06.2026

Here is a guided meditation where we gently offer compassion to those a person who we care for.

Kindness to Three of Us. 26.06.2026

Here I guide a meditation where we are invited to offer kindness to parts of ourselves which we like, parts which we feel neutral to, and to parts which we find challenging.

Eight Minutes of Kindness 26.06.2026

Here is a brief but powerful eight minute guided practice into Kindness. Enjoy!

A Compassionate Journey. 26.06.2026

Here I offer a guided visualization designed to help us cultivate trait compassion. Enjoy!

Accepting Body Scan 26.06.2026

Here I offer a guided meditation where we are invited to bring a warm acceptance to our body. The more one does this type of practice, the more one will feel into their physical sensations with acceptance. As our emotions arise first as a pattern of sensation, this can help one step off of the wheel of reactivity.

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