By Sharon Salzberg — 2018
It's only after we've practiced many times that we'll begin to notice a habit developing—namely, letting ourselves off the hook once in awhile.
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Self-compassion is one of the greatest gifts you can offer yourself. Use this guide to craft loving-kindness phrases that feel meaningful for you.
This meditation uses words, images, and feelings to evoke a lovingkindness and friendliness toward oneself and others.
JoAnna Hardy teaches us the famed Buddhist practice of metta – offering love to ourselves and others.
How to love yourself and others.
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Loving-kindness is defined in English dictionaries as a feeling of benevolent affection, but in Buddhism, loving-kindness (in Pali, Metta; in Sanskrit, Maitri) is thought of as a mental state or attitude, cultivated and maintained by practice.
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Loving-kindness meditation (metta) challenges us to send love and compassion to the difficult people in our lives, including ourselves.
Pema Chödrön on four ways that meditation helps us deal with difficulty.
Most of us have heard that meditation is a good practice to start, with many different benefits to both physical and mental health. Nowadays, there are so many different kinds of meditation out there that it can seem overwhelming to consider which one to choose.
Research shows that Loving-Kindness Meditation has tremendous benefits from greater well-being to providing relief from illness and improving emotional intelligence.
Call it love, kindness, compassion for all beings—it’s the real elixir, the only one that truly transforms life for ourselves and others.