Tonglen is an ancient Tibetan Buddhist practice that is one part of Metta (“Loving-Kindness”). In my experience, Tonglen is an excellent way to engage with people that you think are trying to harm you in anyway.
If you think a person you know is plotting to harm you, but it’s in fact psychosis, then see their suffering take it away with your in-breath. Visualize the in breath as black smoke. Then on the out-breath imagine rejoicing for their improved health.
I use this as part of a 3 part grounding routine. It was originally for PTSD but I think it works great for auditory hallucination and especially social threats.
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Tonglen
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Body Awareness: I focus on the subtle feelings of my left foot, then right foot, then both feet. Finally I focus on the space between my feet. I adapted this from Open Focus. openfocusattentiontraining.com
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Finally Visual Naming: that name/describe objects in your environment.
I’m not sure if you should do naming and then body awareness first, but hey whatever works.
doing grounding gives me more power over voices.