By Richard Davidson — 2016
Dr. Richard Davidson explains that well-being is a skill that can be practiced and strengthened.
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Meditation is the habitual process of training your mind to focus and redirect your thoughts. The popularity of meditation is increasing as more people discover its many health benefits.
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One of the most in-depth meditation studies to date shows that different practices have different benefits.
This meditation uses words, images, and feelings to evoke a lovingkindness and friendliness toward oneself and others.
Research shows that Loving-Kindness Meditation has tremendous benefits from greater well-being to providing relief from illness and improving emotional intelligence.
If you’re familiar to meditation, then you’ve probably tried a basic loving-kindness practice. It involves bringing to mind someone you love, and wishing that they are safe, well, and happy—either out loud or to yourself.
JoAnna Hardy teaches us the famed Buddhist practice of metta – offering love to ourselves and others.
It's only after we've practiced many times that we'll begin to notice a habit developing—namely, letting ourselves off the hook once in awhile.
Spend some time in any Buddhist setting anywhere and you will quickly recognize a predictable cultural norm: Kindness.
How to love yourself and others.
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Loving-kindness is defined in English dictionaries as a feeling of benevolent affection, but in Buddhism, loving-kindness (in Pali, Metta; in Sanskrit, Maitri) is thought of as a mental state or attitude, cultivated and maintained by practice.