Introduction We have spent a lot of time this year exploring loving kindness for self, and today I would like to start expanding the field of our loving kindness to other beings. As you know, we often start our loving kindness practice by bringing to mind a...
Here we expand the field of our loving kindness to include a person for whom we have little or no personal feeling at all: someone we don’t know and may never know. It could be someone who takes the same tram than us on the way to work, or someone who serves us at the...
In this lovingkindness practice we start with bringing to mind a benefactor to awaken feelings of love in our heart, before turning our attention to ourselves and sending loving wishes of well-being in our direction. Lovingkindness for benefactor and self (20 min) by...
In this practice, you are invited to bring self-compassion and kindness to your perceived flaws or errors, instead of the habitual self-judgment and self-criticism. Growing our self-compassion helps to build our strength and resilience in the face of adversity. This...
Introduction Last week we explored the practice of loving kindness for ourselves, and the blocks that we might experience with this practice. Today I would like to continue with an exploration of the practice of loving kindness for our body. In his short story “A...
