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How to Practice Loving-Kindness

By JoAnna Hardy — 2019

JoAnna Hardy teaches us the famed Buddhist practice of metta – offering love to ourselves and others.

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A Meditation on Lovingkindness

This meditation uses words, images, and feelings to evoke a lovingkindness and friendliness toward oneself and others.

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Jack Kornfield
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Be Kind to Yourself

You have enlightened nature, says Pema Khandro Rinpoche. If you truly know that, you’ll always be kind to yourself.

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Pema Khandro
2021
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Cultivating Compassion

How to love yourself and others.

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Thich Nhat Hanh
2015
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The Buddhist Practice of Loving Kindness (Metta)

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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Barbara O'Brien
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Cultivate a Metta Mind: Loving-Kindness Meditation

Loving-kindness meditation (metta) challenges us to send love and compassion to the difficult people in our lives, including ourselves.

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Sylvia Boorstein
2007
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Personalize Your Loving-Kindness Meditation

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.

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Kristin Neff and Christopher Germer
2019
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How Meditation Helps in Difficult Times

Pema Chödrön on four ways that meditation helps us deal with difficulty.

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Pema Chödrön
2009
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An Introduction to Lovingkindness Meditation

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.

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2022
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18 Science-Backed Reasons to Try Loving-Kindness Meditation

Research shows that Loving-Kindness Meditation has tremendous benefits from greater well-being to providing relief from illness and improving emotional intelligence.

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Emma Seppälä
2014
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Searching for the Heart of Compassion

Call it love, kindness, compassion for all beings—it’s the real elixir, the only one that truly transforms life for ourselves and others.

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Marc Ian Barasch
2005
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