By Jack Kornfield
This meditation uses words, images, and feelings to evoke a lovingkindness and friendliness toward oneself and others.
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If you’re familiar to meditation, then you’ve probably tried a basic loving-kindness practice. It involves bringing to mind someone you love, and wishing that they are safe, well, and happy—either out loud or to yourself.
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More and more, we live in bubbles. Most of us are surrounded by people who look like us, vote like us, earn like us, spend money like us, have educations like us and worship like us. The result is an empathy deficit, and it’s at the root of many of our biggest problems.
One of the most in-depth meditation studies to date shows that different practices have different benefits.