The kindest thing you can do to them whom you love is not to create them. Ajahn explains in Buddhist discipline how to truly connect with your loved ones.
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The practice of Metta is an exploration. How Metta is relevant in the unfolding of the Dharma? How the heart responds as we identify loving kindness?
A beautiful and powerful heart-based practice that comes from the Buddhist tradition is metta meditation. Sometimes referred to as loving-kindness meditation. This practice helps to enhance our ability to feel unconditional love and well wishes for ourselves, for others, and for the world at large.
After listening to the audio above, please also check out our 8 Mindfulness Exercises for Love and Compassion.
Another example of a metta meditation, this recording – led by Kamala Masters – expands our loving-kindness practice by incorporating the practice of forgiveness. Through this meditation, we gain a greater sense of our connection to others. Masters invites us to consider that we each one of us holds the same wish and desire for freedom from pain and suffering.
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The practice of Metta makes the heart more responsive. You’ll be surprised you don’t even need to learn Metta in order to show the power of loving-kindness.
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Anam Thubten teaches us to turn our attention into the world, to look into our heart. To love humanity and tells us to connect.
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It is hard to clearly define what unconditional love really is. As humans, many of us falter in offering unconditional love based on the way that life has conditioned us to understand the world we live in. Unconditional love is really more of a feeling – an intangible energy of acceptance and oneness – than it is a notion we can rationally hold onto. As we explore a variety of practices, such as mindfulness exercises for trauma and loving-kindness practices. We start to gain a visceral sense of what and how we might open ourselves up to this transformative force.
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Anam Thubten urges us to melt into love. Our mind is like water. Its nature is to flow and pristine, however, it is usually frozen due to anger or fear.
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Anam Thubten leads the guided heart meditation, to remind the memories of the heart, compassion, and loving-kindness, and awaken the heart.
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James Baraz explains that the relations we have, our connections are channels of positive energies that make us feel alive. Letting in love is to give.
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Hatred does not cease from hatred; hatred ceases by love alone. This is an ancient and eternal law. James Baraz expounds how much we need love in the world.
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James Baraz leads us to understand the Metta for the difficult. When our realities don’t match with other’s, this causes hatred and confusion.
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Donald Rothberg talks about empathy: its nature, what makes it hard and how to develop it. Empathy is the ability to tune in to a person’s emotions, thinking, etc.
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Donald Rothberg talks about a vision of bringing wisdom and love to all parts of our lives. In this meditation, he showed the letter from Birmingham Jail.
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Sharon Salzberg leads a guided loving-kindness meditation. She urges to feel loving, care and acceptance of self. To grasp happiness within, not too tight and not too negligent.
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Spring Washam talks about the topic Love Is The Answer. She also talks about opening the heart, freedom, and joy, having faith and trust over the journey of suffering.
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Spring Washam talks about Purification Through Love which is actually Metta, Loving-kindness. She explains how Loving-kindness purifies the soul, how we are looking about it all our life only to find it within.
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Spring Washam talks about compassion- The Fierce Heart. There is a lot of suffering in the world, and all are called to help. Compassion compels us.
Beneath whatever feelings of love we experience for our partners, our family members, our pets, and the world beneath our feet. There is a broader scope of this fierce heart sentiment that many of us are now tapping into – that is, the unconditional heart of compassion. When we first run into the idea that compassion and love can be ‘unconditional’. Many of us experience some form of rejection of this notion.It is hard to clearly define what unconditional love really is. As humans, many of us falter in offering unconditional love based on the way that life has conditioned us to understand the world we live in. Unconditional love is really more of a feeling – an intangible energy of acceptance and oneness – than it is a notion we can rationally hold onto. As we explore a variety of practices, such as mindfulness exercises for trauma and loving-kindness practices. We start to gain a visceral sense of what and how we might open ourselves up to this transformative force.
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Matthew Brensilver leads a guided meditation- Grief, Love and Groundlessness. When we choose to love, grief becomes a facet of life.
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This meditation is the loving-kindness meditation by Kristin Neff. It's meant to generate feelings of goodwill and kindness both for others and yourself.
Did you like this loving-kindness meditation by Kristin Neff? Get more Mindfulness Exercises For Loving Kindness & Compassion here. Feel more care, loving kindness and compassion with our free mindfulness exercises, guided meditations, mindfulness worksheets and more.
Kristin Neff, Ph.D. is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on self-compassion, being the first one to operationally define and measure the construct over a decade ago. In addition to her pioneering research into self-compassion, she has developed an eight-week program to teach self-compassion skills in daily life, co-created with her colleague Dr. Chris Germer, called Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC). Her book, Self-Compassion, was published by William Morrow in April, 2011.
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Sharon Salzberg talks about Metta - Loving Kindness. The kind of loving kindness that does not select but wishes goodwill to all you know.
We hope you can share what you learned about Metta and Loving Kindness to your fellow mindfulness practitioners. It is the kind of the that gets exponentially more powerful as more people practice it.
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Jack Kornfield talks about Commitment, Attachment, and Love. Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
This talk on commitment, attachment, and love is a call to reflect on where we attach ourselves in an attempt to control our lives. Unlike what we might assume, non-attachment is not the same thing as being ‘detached from’; it is simply a call for us to accept the things we are not in control of and to trustfully embrace the unfolding of life.
Non-attachment, Kornfield explains, means to be present and in relation without grasping and without controlling. This applies to partners, children, family, friends, and all others we interact with. As we practice navigating our relationships this way, we might find that our sense of suffering decreases. Why? Because as Kornfield and many other great teachers explain: suffering, not pain, is directly connected to how attached we are. Through attention and practice, we can begin to replace attachment with dedication, commitment, and care, shifting the vibration to one of loving kindness and compassion.
If we want to let go of our attachment (and in doing so, our suffering), we might consider letting the task of ‘letting go’ be replaced by ‘letting be.’ Forcing ourselves to let go of our fear or our attachment is not the same as letting be. We cannot force our feelings away, but we can practice letting them be as they are – without stories, without defenses, and without control. When fear arises, let it be. When emotions arise, let those be, too. As we begin to relate to these experiences in a non-attached way, we start to find peace, clarity, and meaning in whatever washes through us.
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Matthew Brensilver talks about Love: Cultivation, Concentration & Purification. Love makes our grounds fertile to realize wisdom deeply.
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Matthew Brensilver talks about Love: Sexuality & Mindfulness. Love & Sexuality requires a lot of awareness and the sense of letting go.
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Attracting your soulmate is possible with mindfulness. This binaural beat will help you reach the fully present state necessary for soulmate attraction.
Soulmate Attraction Binaural Beat by Eric Bartel. https://free-meditation-music.com
In our modern, contemporary world, our notion of “love” is often a skewed one. Starting at a very young age, we’re bombarded with all sorts of different ideas about what a relationship can or should look like. We grow accustomed to particular conceptions of what is or is not attractive and develop strong opinions about who and how our significant other should be. More often than not, these ideas that we form can be unrealistic, unhealthy, and unfulfilling for us in the long run.
On top of this, we often enter into romantic relationships in order to fill a hole within ourselves. Because we’re uncomfortable in some way, we look for a means of distracting ourselves and filling in the areas that are missing from our lives. Whether we’re struggling with issues related to abandonment, suffering from anxiety or depression, or dealing with any number of other psychological, emotional, or spiritual maladies, it’s easy to look to a romantic partner as someone to fix or heal us.
Unfortunately, taking this approach to a relationship often leads to heartache, misery, and disaster. Many of us have experienced this, particularly when we’re younger: we find ourselves in relationships that don’t work for us, that is unhealthy, and that doesn’t make us happy by any stretch of the word.
Binaural beat to attract your soulmate
Instead of desperately seeking to fill empty spaces in your experience, searching for your soulmate can be a practice in centering: it can even be a kind of mindfulness exercise. This recording features what’s called a binaural beat: a kind of auditory illusion that occurs when you’re presented with two separate sine waves that are very close to together in frequency.
When listening to this binaural beat, you’ll find that you experience a deep sense of grounded, centeredness, and calm. As you enter into this state, practice a simple mindfulness meditation. Focus on your breath, and open yourself up to the possibility that the right person is out there for you. Your thoughts create your reality. With the right intention, and with a sense of internal wholeness, you can bring your soulmate into your life.
Sean Fargo leads a guided meditation on Loving Kindness. Metta or loving-kindness is the movement of love and sense of care towards others.
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