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Ready to Give Meditation a Try?

By Kimberly Goad — 2020

A beginner's guide to quieting the mind in a time of stress. Includes three guided meditations by popular mindfulness teachers to try now.

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What Type of Meditation Is Best for You?

One of the most in-depth meditation studies to date shows that different practices have different benefits.

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Tania Singer
2018
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A Meditation on Lovingkindness

This meditation uses words, images, and feelings to evoke a lovingkindness and friendliness toward oneself and others.

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Jack Kornfield
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18 Science-Backed Reasons to Try Loving-Kindness Meditation

Research shows that Loving-Kindness Meditation has tremendous benefits from greater well-being to providing relief from illness and improving emotional intelligence.

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Emma Seppälä
2014
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How to Practice Loving-Kindness

JoAnna Hardy teaches us the famed Buddhist practice of metta – offering love to ourselves and others.

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JoAnna Hardy
2019
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Why Loving-Kindness Takes Time: Sharon Salzberg

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.

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Sharon Salzberg
2018
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The Two Tiers of Buddhist Loving-Kindness Practice

Spend some time in any Buddhist setting anywhere and you will quickly recognize a predictable cultural norm: Kindness.

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Steven Schwartzberg
2016
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Cultivating Compassion

How to love yourself and others.

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Thich Nhat Hanh
2015
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The Buddhist Practice of Loving Kindness (Metta)

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.

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Barbara O'Brien
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Is Meditation Self-Centered?: Adapted from the Science of Enlightenment: How Meditation Works by Shinzen Young

People sometimes criticize meditation as being self-centered. Let’s consider that issue.

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Shinzen Young
2016
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Cultivate a Metta Mind: Loving-Kindness Meditation

Loving-kindness meditation (metta) challenges us to send love and compassion to the difficult people in our lives, including ourselves.

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Sylvia Boorstein
2007
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