Many of us come up against some kind of difficulty at some point when we encounter and persist with Kindness and Compassion practices (KCP). Maybe the practice feels artificial, jarring, unrelatable or unnecessary; or the perceived requirement to produce certain mind states feels effortful and unnatural. The people who are the objects of the practice may feel unworthy of kindness or compassion. Perhaps the sense of ourselves that the practice generates is disturbing, or just not what we were expecting or wanting. …
