By Marianna Pogosyan — 2019
Boost your well-being by being kind—to others and to yourself.
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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.
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.
Once we learn to forgive ourselves for being human, we are able to accept the humanity of others.
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JoAnna Hardy teaches us the famed Buddhist practice of metta – offering love to ourselves and others.
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.
Spend some time in any Buddhist setting anywhere and you will quickly recognize a predictable cultural norm: Kindness.
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.