Wake Me Up: Morning Positivity - Morning Meditation - Love for All

Episode Date: August 16, 2022

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If you'd like to enjoy Wake Me Up completely ad-free and get access to exclusive bonus content, check out the link in the show notes for the Wake Me Up premium feed. Hey there, and welcome to Wake Me Up. I'm Tyler, your host as always. This week's episodes are all about spreading love to everyone. And insofar as meditation goes, there are a few things better for that than loving-kindness meditation. Loving kindness is a really powerful way to generate positive emotions toward other people and yourself, too. It helps both with receiving and giving love, and I think you're going to feel great after this.

We've taken similar approaches to meditation before on the show, so nothing will come as a surprise. Now let's get right to it. So find a comfortable seat anywhere in your home will do. Just try not to sit in bed, because we don't want to go. go back to sleep at this point. And once you found that seat, just take a second to get situated. You want to be comfortable and you want to feel supported. But try not to hold onto any tension, not take a deep breath in, filling all the way up. And as you exhale, just close your eyes. Begin to settle into a meditative state. And one thing that can help with that is if you let your

face soften. If you relax your face. jaw and if you drop your shoulders down. Just follow that rise and fall of your own breath at whatever natural pace comes to you. And as you do, you might find that you draw deeper and deeper within. All right, now that you're settled in, bring to mind someone in your life who you believe really has your best intentions at heart. They want the best for you. They want to see you thrice, healthy and happy. And if you encounter some difficulty bringing to mind a person like that in your life, then just try to imagine someone treating you that way.

It will work equally as well. See that person as though they're seated right in front of you, and they're smiling at you. Envision them saying the following to you. I wish you well. I wish you happiness and health. I wish you fulfillment, and I wish you prosperity. Inhale and draw in the love in those words.

And exhale, send that love right back to them. Once more, inhale, filling up with the love of those words. And then exhale, send the love right back to them. And now you can let that image go. And just notice for a moment, if there are any sensations you feel, warmth, comfort, ease, anything like that. Just rest in it for a moment. All right.

Now bring to mind someone in your life who could really use an extra boost. A friend, a family member, a colleague, someone that's going through a struggle right now. And again, imagine that they're sitting right in front of you. smile at them and try not to dive all the way into this person's stories or struggles, but just wish them well. Don't they deserve that regardless of their personal stories and struggles? Say to them the following. I wish you well.

I wish you happiness and health. I wish you fulfillment. And I wish you prosperity. Inhale and collect the love in these words. Exhale, send that love towards this other person. Once more, inhale, collecting the love in those words. Exhale, send it to this other person. Now you can let that image go,

and again, just notice if there are any sensations you feel after having done that. Just rest in it for a moment. All right, now you can let everything go and allow your mind to run freely for a moment before we wrap up. anywhere it wants to go, don't try to control it at all. Okay, it's time to wrap up our meditation now.

So begin to bring yourself back. Notice whatever's supporting you. Maybe it's the chair, maybe it's the floor. Notice any sounds in the room and the air on your skin. Maybe you want to give your fingers and toes a little wiggle, just to get the body moving again. Take a big inhale, the biggest one yet. And on your exhale, slowly open your eyes and collect yourself.

All right, so I hope you enjoyed that meditation, and that you're full of the warm and fuzzy feeling of being loved. Doesn't it just take the edge off of everything to know that you're loved and appreciated and that someone out there wants the best for you? You should never doubt that someone in the world wants that for you. I know that for sure. Because I do.

That's why I make this show, after all. I wish you well. I wish you happiness and health. I wish you fulfillment, and I wish you prosperity. So I hope you go about your day full of these great feelings. And I hope you spread them to others too. The world would be a much better place if we all did that. Well, so long for now.

I'll talk to you tomorrow for our motivation on this week. week's theme. And until then, go out and have a fantastic day. Thank you so much for listening today. If you're enjoying the show, I'd greatly appreciate you taking a second to rate it on Apple podcasts and Spotify. It does wonders to help spread the show. You can find links to do that in the show notes. Thank you so much for your listenership, help, and support.