Kelly McGonigal

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The School of Greatness · The Real Reason Stress Is Hurting You | Kelly McGonigal · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

I was like, like nothing else needs to happen today.

I'm so I'm like,

wow that i'm so glad that i was able to do that it was so meaningful to me to think that then i would be reluctant to give her the same opportunity to support me like that's that's not how this works it only really works if it's a full cycle and we're open to both offering and receiving kindness and gratitude so how do we learn how to accept the compassion gratitude support uh acknowledgement of others and not block it how do we learn that practice so

There's a very specific way that I teach it that's related to my research.

We have this whole program called the Stanford Compassion Cultivation Training Program.

It's this whole eight-week thing where we use things like meditation and one-on-one interactions to practice this.

I'm not saying people need to go home and try this with their pet right now or their partner.

For example, one of the things we do in this context is we learn—

this meditation called Tonglen, where you imagine breathing in awareness of whatever stress or pain someone else is going through.

And you imagine breathing out support, hope, strength, compassion, kindness.

So it's a sort of you learn to be this vessel to connect with the strength of your compassionate heart that allows you to open, to actually being with, to witnessing and receiving

and acknowledging someone else's pain and suffering, and in that moment to connect to the intention to care and support.

And it's this meditation you do.

And we do it as a partner exercise where we have a conversation.

I would share with you something difficult that I'm going through, and you would share something difficult you're going through with me, and then we would practice this exchange.

where I'm imagining I'm breathing in awareness of your stress and sending you compassion, and you're breathing in my stress or pain and breathing out compassion.

And then I like to flip it, and then you just imagine you're breathing in what the other person is sending you and allowing yourself to receive it.

Now that's super woo-woo.

I'm not saying that that's for everyone, but it's powerful in the right context.

Yeah, and I think that even if that whole idea is like your nightmare, right?

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