Meditation Mountain - Loving Kindness Meditation ~ 15 Minute Guided Meditation

Episode Date: February 26, 2021

Let this 15 minute loving kindness guided meditation walk you through how to love yourself. Self love affirmations during this compassion meditation teach you how to give and receive loving kindness.�� With so much judgement in the world it's easy to believe that we don't deserve compassion or self love. Which in turn can make it more difficult to show loving kindness to others. But short guided meditations like this are for this very purpose. To tell you and help you believe that self compassion, self acceptance and love are things that we all deserve. You may be here because you want to know how to love yourself, or maybe because you want to become better at showing loving kindness to others around you. Whatever your reason may be taking the time to listen to guided meditations on a regular basis is an easy to follow method for increasing the loving feelings in your life.  Taking the time to spend a few minutes a day following a short guided meditation on self love or a loving kindness affirmation is the kind of daily practice that produces great benefits over time. The benefits of meditation are often immediate in the sense of temporary calm and relaxation. But if you're still a meditation beginner then sticking with it you'll likely also see incredible long term benefits that can shift your personality, internal happiness and state of mind over the course of weeks, months and years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Meditation Mountain and this guided loving kindness meditation. Find a comfortable position preferably lying down so that you can become fully relaxed. Ready to show your body and mind some tender loving kindness. Let your hands rest by your side. and begin to become aware of your hands. Notice a warm sensation in your hands and allow for it to grow. The warmth 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. 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 fingers. Imagining you are generating relaxation by doing so. That when I ask you to stop, 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 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. Relax. Relax. the right side of your head to 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, soothing sensations. Take a nice breath before you begin to wiggle all of your left face. To generate relaxation, wiggle your fingers now, and continue doing so. Imagining 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 and feel how good your hand feels when it's motionless. And notice how that wave of relaxation travels up your entire left arm to your neck and left ear. And the left side of your head. Your left arm and right arm all the way up to your head. 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 leg.

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. Travel up your right leg. Passing through your right hip.

Relaxing you all the way through your torso and the right side of your chest and back. Moving on to the left side again. Wiggle your toes on your left 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, travel up your left leg, passing through your left hip, relaxing you, all the way through your torso and the left side of your chest and back. Humans have the unique ability to visualize, which allows for creation of all kinds to take place. So let's use the power of visualization. to induce self-love, making sure your eyes are closed, begin to imagine yourself full of an abundance of self-love. Allow this self-love to expand to those you know and love. And now expand to everyone in your town. And even further, allow your kindness. and love to expand to everyone in the world right now.

Love is endless. It has no boundaries. It has no limit. So send it now out to everyone. Even those who have committed crimes or wronged you in some way. Grace them with your kindness. Now 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, I honored a joy that comes with experiencing love and accept everything about myself. truly loving myself makes kindness easy for me. I love myself. The more kindness I send to others, every moment of my existence. I have unconditional love within me that overflows in abundance to everyone around me. Now take a deep breath in and really focus on sending. out love and kindness to others. Feel it straight from your heart. Taking another deep breath in. Focus intensely on sending yourself that same love and kindness. Sit here for a moment.

You deserve it. Breathe in and out. In. And now slowly and gently, whenever you're ready, opening your eyes, take a fresh breath and know that it's never too late to show yourself and others some loving kindness. Thank you for joining me today.