A Zen Mind Guided Meditations - 10 Minute Loving Kindness Guided Meditation

Episode Date: June 29, 2023

This 10 minute loving kindness meditation serves as a powerful way in which you can cultivate love, compassion, and kindness for yourself and others. When practiced regularly, these meditations can lead to an overall increased sense of well-being. As said in the Dhammapada,  "Hatred cannot coexist with loving-kindness, and dissipates if supplanted with thoughts based on loving-kindness." 🌼A Zen Mind Instagram ⭐ Join My Email List✨www.azenmindpodcast.com💖Get more meditations from A Zen Mind ☁️ Shop my favorite Meditation Cushions & Supplies 🙏Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Thank you so much for being here. Hello to this loving kindness meditation, which is a powerful way in which you can cultivate kindness for yourself and for others. So when you are ready, by getting into a comfortable position and gently close your eyes. the muscles in your face and clench your jaw how your shoulders to drop any other unnecessary tension in your body and take a moment to bring your awareness to your breath just observe your breath without changing the way in which you are breathing just let your attention travel with the air as it passes through your nose and your throat on to your lung your chest and your belly

expand, noticing the sensation of the air as it leaves your body through your lips. With this for just a few more moments, and that you are sitting in a beautiful summer meadow. Colorful wildflowers dance with the soft breeze around you. The sun is warm on your skin, while butterflies and insects keep to themselves as they move around. As they move around, they the field. You can hear the sounds of the birds chirping as you spend a few moments observing these wondrous beauties you see a dearly loved person walking through the meadow towards you. This could be a friend, a family member, a partner, or even a complete stranger whom you wish to exchange affection to. This person

A person sits down opposite you and a beaming white light begins to form between you. Heart to heart with the feelings of warmth and compassion that you have for them. The feelings to move with the light and fill your body. Say or focus on the phrase, may I be well, may I be happy, and may I be peaceful. send these loving feelings to the person opposite of you. May you be well, may you be happy, may you be peaceful, intensify. May we be well, may we be happy, and may we be peaceful. Focusing on these phrases, may I live with ease and be free from suffering. May you live with ease. and be free from suffering.

May we live with ease and be free from suffering. It's bathed in warmth and light of loving kindness. It intensifies and transforms into a circle of light around you both as it brightens, bathing you in the warmth of loving kindness, that you are radiating out to your circle. surroundings, including all beings, allowing these feelings to radiate out into the universe infinitely. May all beings be well, may all beings be happy, and may all beings be peaceful. All beings live with ease and be free from suffering.

A few more moments here, basking in the wonderful expansion of your body, allowing the feelings to flow from your heart out into the universe, affecting all beings, seen and unseen, recognizing the warmth that you feel from the love, kindness and friendliness reflected in your own heart to the present moment, settling in with the feelings of peace and stillness within you, carrying them with you throughout your days ahead, wishing you peace and love. Namaste.