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Guided Metta

Guided Metta meditation led by Gil Fronsdal. Metta is Loving-Kindness, is one of the cornerstones of Buddhist Practice and a companion of Mindfulness.

Loving kindness practice is a practice of goodwill for oneself and for someone else. Finding inside of us the intention for our own wellbeing and for someone else.

It is not positive affirmations, it is not positive thinking, but it's like a prayer or a wish inside of us and nurturing it to let it grow towards wishing goodwill towards others.

It is a very significant practice and a central one in Buddhist spiritual practice. It is kind of a tenderizer of the heart.

This half an hour guided meditation begins with the usual comfortable alert posture.

Letting In The Love

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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The Importance of Appreciating our Benefactors

James Baraz tells a story about the importance of appreciating our benefactors. These mentors and inspirations should be considered streams of goodness.

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Metta For the Difficult

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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The Multiplication of Courage

James Baraz talks about the power of community. There is a kind with creativity or collective intelligence, and sometimes multiplication of courage.

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Race, Racism, and Spiritual Practice

Donald Rothberg leads a meditation through a sensitive topic of race, racism and spiritual practice. Referencing to injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

While our collective mindfulness of race and spiritual practice has increased in recent decades, there is still so much that needs to be done. To help me connect with people in meaningful, vulnerable and beneficial ways, it is my ongoing intention to listen to those with very different backgrounds and ethnicities than mine.

Here are some of today’s leading mindfulness teachers who have helped me learn some of the important nuances of mindfulness of race:

Ruth King
Larry Yang
Anushka Fernandopulle
Nikki Mirghafori
Venerable Pannavati

As a friendly reminder, you can see Each Week’s Free Mindfulness Exercises Here

Reflections on the Splendor of Generosity

Phillip Moffitt explains there is joy in generosity. This particular meditation is to acknowledge the practice of compassionate generosity in mindfulness.

Metta in the Post Obama Era

Matthew Brensilver leads a guided meditation about Metta in the Post Obama Era. “Aspire to be safe for others.” centering on this statement and striving to be free from suffering.

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Building Joy

A talk about "Mudita meditation" as the life in the happiness of others; building joy, to be delighted in the happiness of others & continue to increase it.

What can you say about this Mudita meditation? Regardless of what you may be going through, it’s important to remember that happiness is a choice. When you frame happiness in this way, you regain power. You are in control, not the situation.

Still, there are times when changing your mood seems like an impossible task. Fortunately, some proven therapies can help you start feeling better like meditation, music therapy, and yoga.

If you’re having trouble feeling happy and are looking for alternatives to antidepressant medication, try these simple and inexpensive therapies. Each has been proven to work against depression, which can, in turn, boost happiness.

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Guided Loving Kindness Meditation

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.

Guided Metta Meditation

Joseph Goldstein leads a guided Metta meditation. Metta is loving-kindness, is a general feeling of friendliness or goodwill towards others.

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Heartfelt Meditation

Joseph Goldstein leads guided heartfelt meditation on Metta – the feeling of kindliness, loving-kindness, and heartfelt. Of friendliness and goodwill.

More Heartfelt Meditation

After listening to this audio, also watch this Guided Metta Meditation video. Joseph Goldstein takes you on a calming, guided heartfelt meditation for 48 minutes to help you understand what loving-kindness in practice is.

Also read our 8 Mindfulness Exercises for Love and Compassion. From trauma and depression to anger and contempt, a variety of human experiences act as invitations for us to deepen our sense of the transformative power of love. As we open our hearts to this broader way of viewing ourselves, our pasts, and those around us, our experience of compassion grows and our life transforms in infinite ways. These 8 mindfulness exercises online are examples of practices and teachings we can explore in relation to our search for greater peace, happiness, and unconditional acceptance.

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One Dharma by Joseph Goldstein
Insight meditation: the practice of freedom (book)
Joseph Goldstein’s Insight Hour Podcast

Grief, Love and Groundlessness

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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The Foundation for all Abundance

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance. What goodness do you sometimes forget or take for granted?

What is the foundation of all abundance? Contrary to any subconscious beliefs we may hold that it is what exists in the outer world that determines the presence of abundance, it is actually our perception of abundance that determines this. By harnessing gratitude for all that we presently have (both internally and externally) helps us to see that abundance is already with us.

Gratitude Practices for Abundance

We can begin to shift our perception of abundance by practicing gratitude. Gratitude practices can be as simple as giving thanks before each meal or making a list of all that we are grateful for. We can also practice nightly journaling about all the blessings that came our way throughout the course of the day. As we start to expand our awareness of the goodness that exists around and within us, we begin to attract more of it. Recognizing the good that exists in each moment helps to improve our experience of peace and contentment.

One-Minute Gratitude Meditation

Wherever we are, we can practice gratitude by closing our eyes for even just one minute and mentally noting all that we have to be thankful for. Note things both large and small, both inner and outer. The more you practice this, the more natural this mindset of appreciation and abundance will come. Create a daily routine for some form of mindful gratitude practice. Even one mindful minute a day is enough to inspire positive changes in the way we view the world around us.

The Practice of Metta – Loving Kindness

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.

Life of Service

Mark Coleman talks about Life of Service. How wonderful and inspiring if the life of service we have is filled with compassion and loving-kindness.

Me and We

Rick Hanson talks about Me and We, Autonomy and Intimacy. Autonomy is the inner strength of independence. It supports Intimacy to be happy and feel connected.

Intimacy

Rick Hanson talks about Intimacy, how our experiences in childhood can impact our relationships later in life and what people can do to work with those issues as adults.

Commitment, Attachment & Love

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 in Relationships

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.

Learning to Let Go

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.

Right Speech

Joseph Goldstein talks about Right Speech. Right thoughts and understanding is the 3rd of the 8-fold path to awakening. It tends to yield right speech.

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The Kind Heart

Whatever the mind thinks about something fondly, it becomes the mind’s inclination. Joseph Goldstein talks about The Kind Heart. Cultivate loving kindness.

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One Dharma by Joseph Goldstein
Insight meditation: the practice of freedom (book)
Joseph Goldstein’s Insight Hour Podcast

Sincerity

Matthew Brensilver talks about Sincerity which is the lifeblood of mindfulness practice. All of its beauty arises within sincerity.

There are many different mindfulness exercises online that can be explored in relation to sincerity, love and compassion. Regardless of where we are in life or what we are experiencing, the opportunity to expand our capacity for unconditional love and compassion and being sincere is infinite. In each moment, we can work towards gaining a larger perspective of some situation or person, helping us to see that we are each more alike than we are different. With a variety of mindfulness exercises online dedicated to enhancing love and compassion, there is no shortage of pathways into the fullness of the heart.

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Love: Cultivation, Concentration & Purification

Matthew Brensilver talks about Love: Cultivation, Concentration & Purification. Love makes our grounds fertile to realize wisdom deeply.

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Love, Sexuality & Mindfulness

Matthew Brensilver talks about Love: Sexuality & Mindfulness. Love & Sexuality requires a lot of awareness and the sense of letting go.

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Developing Compassion

Jack Kornfield talks about Developing Compassion. The Buddha said the freedom of the heart is love. Compassion is the quivering of the heart when it touches sorrow.

In this mindfulness talk on compassion, Jack Kornfield opens up with a beautiful and inspiring poem called ‘The Sleepless Ones.’ This poem reminds us of our shared humanity, tuning us into the invisible mystery of the universe that connects us all.

Through silence and meditation, we begin to gain a greater sense of this. In times of either happiness or grief, we can tune into this connection to find inspiration, hope, and meaning.

Mindfulness Exercises for Compassion

There are a variety of mindfulness exercises that can help us to develop compassion. We can begin with self-compassion practices that help us to embody a greater sense of kindness and love turned inward.

We can also explore loving kindness meditations, or metta, which expand upon this base of self-love to bless all beings – those known to us as well as those unknown – with the same love and kindness we so deeply yearn for. With the same love and kindness that is our birthright.

Exercise for Self-Compassion

In this exercise for self-compassion, we are invited to take a new perspective on our relationship to some part of our lives. By drawing to mind some aspect of ourselves that we judge or criticize and then approaching this inner struggle from the lens of a supportive and compassionate loved one, we begin to sense that our limited perspective is not the larger truth.

We begin to see how we can speak with greater kindness to the inner world within that yearns for love and tenderness.

Soulmate Attraction (Binaural Beat)

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

Attracting Your Soulmate

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.

Creating the relationship you need and deserve

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.

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