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.
You may not consider how to befriend yourself in meditation, but when you shift your mindset, you can develop a friendly and compassionate approach to the practice. Try the following five practices and approaches to meditation.
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Through the practice of meditation, there are certain changes that happen in the mind. One of the most important changes is that you become master of your mind.
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.
Loving-kindness meditation (metta) challenges us to send love and compassion to the difficult people in our lives, including ourselves.
Many equate self-discipline with living a good, moral life, which ends up creating a lot of shame when we fail. There’s a better way to build lasting, solid self-discipline in your life.
Pema Chödrön on four ways that meditation helps us deal with difficulty.