Learn Powerful Meditation Techniques - Loving Kindness Meditation: The Secret To Loving Yourself

Episode Date: December 19, 2022

Dhammapada, or Loving-kindness meditation, is one of the two simplest meditations in Buddhism. This meditation helps bring about positive changes in practitioners' lives and helps them develop loving feelings toward all other living creatures. The primary purpose of Dhammapada is to cultivate love. Even though it comes from the Buddhist tradition, it can be adopted and practiced by anyone regardless of religious beliefs or affiliations. This type of meditation must be practiced without any expectations._________________________________________________________________________________________A Life Of Transformation Begins With Action...GET STARTED TODAY WITHOUT ANY RISK!Get 7 Days of Unlimited Access Right NowFor Free When You Download Our App! There are seven stages of meditation instruction on a single platform. Live monthly Zoom coaching and training sessions. Get unlimited free access to the Meditation Life Skills app for 7 days by downloading it now! Visit MeditationLifeSkills.com For More Information. _________________________________________________________________________________________This truly unselfish practice results in the perfect or pure love that we are capable of. We begin with loving ourselves and then extend this pure love to include others, starting with people special to us and eventually extending it to all living things.Reflect on what you want to achieve during this meditation. With your eyes gently closed throughout the meditation, begin cultivating the feeling of loving-kindness. There are many ways to accomplish this. One way is to recall when you felt loving-kindness and try to recreate these feelings during meditation.You can also use language that represents the feeling of loving-kindness. You can repeat phrases like "May I be free of pain and suffering" and "May I be happy, safe, and protected." Continue breathing in and out as your state these phrases and think or repeat them several times to feel the full effect. Feel the meaning of these words spread through your whole body, mind, and heart.Finally, extend your loving-kindness outward until it reaches all living things. To do this, think of different people in various locations across the globe going about their lives in multiple ways. In many ways, they act and care about the same things, and this realization should bring you closer to them and help you achieve this feeling of love toward them.After this final stage, sit quietly for a few minutes and reflect on the experience you achieved during this meditation. Slowly become aware of your surroundings and gently return to your life in the outside world. Try to hold on to this feeling of love and well-being as you go about for the rest of the day. "Be the person your soul wishes you to be." - Don WeyantOffering step-by-step instructions for beginners. Try binaural beats, solfeggio frequencies, guided meditations, and healing meditation music. Our top-rated podcast, with 34 million downloads and 100,000 Spotify followers, explores the profound benefits of meditation. Visit Our Main Website: https://www.MeditationLifeSkillsPodcast.comPodcast Disclaimers: This podcast is not medical advice or a substitute for professional diagnosis or treatment. This podcast needs expert advice and independent verification to reach conclusions. Content-related losses are not our responsibility. AI language models were used to create podcast content for information and enjoyment alone.

We appreciate your interest in today's meditation life skills podcast. We sincerely grateful for your support. Hello and welcome to this meditation for loving kindness. Find a comfortable position, preferably lying down so that you can become fully relaxed and begin to become aware of your hands. Imagine that you can feel a warm sensation in your hands and allow it to grow the warm, The strength is soothing and calm. Just be fully aware of your hands and how they feel beside you right now.

Feel a nice relaxation. Sweep over you and allow your eyes to gently close, which relaxes you even more. Draw your awareness to your right hand only now. And even though you want to relax your hands, begin. to wiggle your right fingers, imagining that when you wiggle them, you are generating relaxation by doing so. And when I ask you to stop wiggling them, you will feel a wave of relaxation. Travel all the way up your entire arms.

Continue wiggling, feeling your fingers ready to become still and stop. stop moving them. Notice how immediately that wave of relaxation travels up your right arm, all the way up your neck and to your right ear. Relaxing the right side of your head too. Feel how good you feel on the right side. So let's continue this same process on the left side, Bringing your awareness to only your left hand, feeling the warm sensations that are soothing. Take a nice breath before you begin to wiggle all of your left fingers. Wiggle your fingers now to generate relaxation. Continue doing so.

Imagine that you are building relaxation in your fingers by moving them. Keep going for a few moments longer. Your fingers are becoming tired and ready to relax, so stop moving them. And feel how good your hand feels when it's motionless. Noticing that wave of relaxation travels up your entire left arm to your neck and left ear and the left side of your head. Now your left arm and right arm all the way up to your head are equally relaxed. Notice how you feel right now. We are going to do the same process with your legs. Beginning with your right toes. So wiggle your toes on your right foot. Cultivating

and building relaxation. Continue moving your toes so that they become tired and want to be still and rest your toes. Do not move them at all. And feel a gentle yet profound relaxation. Traveling up your right leg, passing through your right hip, relaxing you all the way through your torso. right chest and back and do the same thing with your left toes. Wiggle them, wiggle. Cultivating and building relaxation. Continue moving your toes so that they become tired and want to be still. And rest your toes, do not move them at all. Feeling that gentle and profound relaxation. Travel up your left

leg, passing over your left hip, relaxing you all the way through your torso and left back. You are now completely balanced in relaxation. Humans have the unique ability to visualize, which allows for creation of all kinds to take place. So let's use the power of your amazing visualization abilities. to induce kindness and love. Making sure your eyes are closed, begin to imagine yourself full of abundance and self-love.

How this self-love to expand to those you know and care about. Now expand to everyone in the town. Even further, love is endless. It has no boundaries, it has no limit. So allow your kindness and love to expand to everyone in the world right now. And send it out to everyone. Even those who have committed crimes, grace them with your kindness right now. And hear yourself saying,

When I fully love myself, I am able to fully love others. Each day I allow my love for myself to grow more and more. I honor the joy that comes with experiencing love. Love and accept everything about myself. Truly loving myself makes kindness come easy for me. The more I love myself, the more kindness I send to others. I love every moment of my existence, unconditional love within me, that overflows in abundance to everyone around me.

Great. Now gently opening your eyes. Take a fresh breath. Whenever you love yourself, you will find love. Thank you.