By Compassion Works for All — 2020
Simply put: compassion is lovingkindness in action.
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Loving-kindness meditation and compassion training boost empathic resilience.
How to love yourself and others.
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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.
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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It can be powerful medicine for both your mind and relationships.
Loving-kindness meditation (metta) challenges us to send love and compassion to the difficult people in our lives, including ourselves.
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.
Kristin Neff guides us through a twenty-minute compassion meditation, first directing kind phrases to ourselves and then to others.
If you approach your practice as a path of love, the rhythms of life will teach you moment by moment how to proceed. Each little discovery about what breathing feels like will give you more access to your inner life and the secret power of recovery built into your body.