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How to Meditate: Meditation 101 for Beginners
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How to Meditate: Meditation 101 for Beginners
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Mindfulness 101: A Beginner's Guide
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In this meditation we cultivate a more compassionate, kind and awakened state of mind, and then learn to carry it into our lives.
So now just settling in to a comfortable position for this meditation. And when you're ready, allowing the eyes to close, if that's comfortable for you. And as a way of really gathering your awareness more fully to the here and now, take a deep, slow, full breath in. And steady breath out. And just inviting you to bring to mind someone that's fairly easy for you to feel kindness or love towards.
It can be someone from the past or present, perhaps a child, a pet, or a loved one. Someone that you have an easy and uncomplicated relationship with. Allowing yourself to hold this person in your awareness. Perhaps seeing them in your mind's eye or having a sense of them in your heart. And can you feel a sense of loving kindness towards them.
As you continue now to hold them in your awareness, beginning to send wishes of loving kindness to them. I'm going to invite you to mentally repeat the following phrases. May you be safe and protected. May you be free from suffering. May you be healthy and happy.
May your heart be at peace. May you live with ease. And may you be filled with love and joy. And now just resting with this feeling of open and unconditional love for a few moments. Just letting yourself bask in the energy of loving kindness.
And breathing it in and breathing it out, inviting feelings of peace and acceptance. Just resting here and following the breath and bathing in this energy of loving kindness. And as this practice now comes towards a close, just notice how your mind and body feel after taking this time to generate feelings of loving kindness. And then taking a deep breath in. A steady breath out.
And beginning to move the fingers and toes. And when you're ready, gently blinking open the eyes. And perhaps making an intention to take these feelings of loving kindness with you.Into the day ahead. Thank you for your practice. Take care.
Metta Loving Kindness Meditation
In this meditation we cultivate a more compassionate, kind and awakened state of mind, and then learn to carry it into our lives.
Duration
Your default time is based on your progress and is changed automatically as you practice.
So now just settling in to a comfortable position for this meditation. And when you're ready, allowing the eyes to close, if that's comfortable for you. And as a way of really gathering your awareness more fully to the here and now, take a deep, slow, full breath in. And steady breath out. And just inviting you to bring to mind someone that's fairly easy for you to feel kindness or love towards.
It can be someone from the past or present, perhaps a child, a pet, or a loved one. Someone that you have an easy and uncomplicated relationship with. Allowing yourself to hold this person in your awareness. Perhaps seeing them in your mind's eye or having a sense of them in your heart. And can you feel a sense of loving kindness towards them.
As you continue now to hold them in your awareness, beginning to send wishes of loving kindness to them. I'm going to invite you to mentally repeat the following phrases. May you be safe and protected. May you be free from suffering. May you be healthy and happy.
May your heart be at peace. May you live with ease. And may you be filled with love and joy. And now just resting with this feeling of open and unconditional love for a few moments. Just letting yourself bask in the energy of loving kindness.
And breathing it in and breathing it out, inviting feelings of peace and acceptance. Just resting here and following the breath and bathing in this energy of loving kindness. And as this practice now comes towards a close, just notice how your mind and body feel after taking this time to generate feelings of loving kindness. And then taking a deep breath in. A steady breath out.
And beginning to move the fingers and toes. And when you're ready, gently blinking open the eyes. And perhaps making an intention to take these feelings of loving kindness with you.Into the day ahead. Thank you for your practice. Take care.
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