Best advice? Feed your demons.
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In the Chöd practice you welcome them like you would your child, gradually get a bodily felt sense of how they are doing and what they need, arouse intense compassion, and visualize feeding them your body (your most prized possession) cheffed up to satisfy the need.
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Lama tsultrim allione has a great book that makes this practice a beautiful and vivid drawing/journaling/meditation practice, called feeding your demons, I have found it very helpful!
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+1 for . That was my next recommendation! She has a variation on the traditional practice that’s very intelligent, modern and good I think.
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What would be your preferred source for this practice, if there's anything else in writing?
Asking, uh, for a demon...
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Although I like and practice the traditional gory chöd practice, the book Feeding Your Demons that Caroline mentioned has some very strong things to recommend it and it has helped me with the traditional practice. She’s a pretty savvy lama in my book.
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This might at first seem unrelated, but there is a fantastic book called Focusing by Eugene Gendlin, which helps flesh out some steps of what Lama Tsultrim Allione describes. I personally couldn’t have done her practice very well without having learned focusing.
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My fiscal conscience and my curiousity are in a bit of a Mexican standoff over this, but I think I'll do something I almost never do and actually write things down for later.
Sounds like two books I really should read.
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The Gendlin book you’ll be able to find in a library easily. The method he gives isn’t visualization. It’s surprising and hard to describe. But in my view it’s right up there as a basic life skill with meditation. They complement each other.
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I'll have a look tomorrow, then. Seeing as I work at the library.