When we stop plunging ahead in our activities long enough to just look, we become gentle.
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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.
This meditation uses words, images, and feelings to evoke a lovingkindness and friendliness toward oneself and others.
Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and find a greater sense of connection with others.
You have enlightened nature, says Pema Khandro Rinpoche. If you truly know that, you’ll always be kind to yourself.
In today's tip for intentional living, Les shares three different ways to practice lovingkindness meditation, or metta meditation to help you live mindfully.
After years of practicing anxiety, fear, hatred, depression, and so many other feelings we can conjure up in seconds to carry around with us all day, we become very skilled at feeling things we don't like, and very inexperienced at feeling things we do like.
JoAnna Hardy teaches us the famed Buddhist practice of metta – offering love to ourselves and others.
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.
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Meditation is for everybody, and loving-kindness meditation is a simple and safe self-guided practice accessible enough for anybody.