As one of my contributions to our collective effort to survive this time, I am periodically offering a free 10 minute guided meditation on my blog. 10 minutes because everyone can find 10 minutes in their day to do something that sustains you and increases your positive impact on the people around you. And because research shows that even 10 minutes of meditation can improve your brain functioning - and make you feel better.
There are dozens of meditation apps and sources out there. I don't claim mine is anything better than what you find could elsewhere. But two things might make your experience of these guided meditations unique. First, if you have attended any of the leadership retreats where I offer a mindfulness practice, you may find that listening to these guided meditations connects you to the retreat experience and allows you to renew the feelings of connectedness and power you had there. Second, many of my guided meditations will have a social justice element that connects to the issues our movement is focused on at the moment.
This is an mp4 file. You should be able to double-click and the file will automatically run in whatever default media program you use. If you have difficulty downloading or running the file, leave me a note in the comments with your email address and we can try to figure it out together.
The loving kindness meditation is a staple of mindfulness practice. This meditation helps increase your own storehouse of compassion and loving kindness, and connect it to the people around you. It is a way of increasing our resources for making change and creating concrete channels for those resources to flow outward into the world.
Before you sit down to practice this meditation, you will need to identify three people to whom you can direct loving kindness:
* someone you love easily and without complication
* someone you feel neutral about - typically someone you don't know that well
* someone who is challenging for you
It is helpful if you can picture these people in your mind.
I hope this meditation helps you as we move forward together in a strange, uncertain, and sometimes hostile moment.
With love and gratitude.
Loving Kindness Meditation
There are dozens of meditation apps and sources out there. I don't claim mine is anything better than what you find could elsewhere. But two things might make your experience of these guided meditations unique. First, if you have attended any of the leadership retreats where I offer a mindfulness practice, you may find that listening to these guided meditations connects you to the retreat experience and allows you to renew the feelings of connectedness and power you had there. Second, many of my guided meditations will have a social justice element that connects to the issues our movement is focused on at the moment.
This is an mp4 file. You should be able to double-click and the file will automatically run in whatever default media program you use. If you have difficulty downloading or running the file, leave me a note in the comments with your email address and we can try to figure it out together.
The loving kindness meditation is a staple of mindfulness practice. This meditation helps increase your own storehouse of compassion and loving kindness, and connect it to the people around you. It is a way of increasing our resources for making change and creating concrete channels for those resources to flow outward into the world.
Before you sit down to practice this meditation, you will need to identify three people to whom you can direct loving kindness:
* someone you love easily and without complication
* someone you feel neutral about - typically someone you don't know that well
* someone who is challenging for you
It is helpful if you can picture these people in your mind.
I hope this meditation helps you as we move forward together in a strange, uncertain, and sometimes hostile moment.
Loving Kindness Meditation
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