By Jack Kornfield
This meditation uses words, images, and feelings to evoke a lovingkindness and friendliness toward oneself and others.
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CLEAR ALL
How to love yourself and others.
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Loving-kindness meditation (metta) challenges us to send love and compassion to the difficult people in our lives, including ourselves.
Call it love, kindness, compassion for all beings—it’s the real elixir, the only one that truly transforms life for ourselves and others.
Loving-kindness meditation and compassion training boost empathic resilience.
One of the most in-depth meditation studies to date shows that different practices have different benefits.
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Science proves meditating restructures your brain and trains it to concentrate, feel greater compassion, cope with stress, and more.
Kristin Neff guides us through a twenty-minute compassion meditation, first directing kind phrases to ourselves and then to others.