By Compassion Works for All — 2020
Simply put: compassion is lovingkindness in action.
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Loving-kindness meditation and compassion training boost empathic resilience.
How to love yourself and others.
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This meditation uses words, images, and feelings to evoke a lovingkindness and friendliness toward oneself and others.
Call it love, kindness, compassion for all beings—it’s the real elixir, the only one that truly transforms life for ourselves and others.
Compassion gets a lot of attention in positive psychology, and for good reason – it’s a major concern of many religious and philosophical leaders, including the Dalai Lama and Pope Francis.
JoAnna Hardy teaches us the famed Buddhist practice of metta – offering love to ourselves and others.
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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It can be powerful medicine for both your mind and relationships.
Loving-kindness meditation (metta) challenges us to send love and compassion to the difficult people in our lives, including ourselves.
“Accepting and sending out” is a powerful meditation to develop compassion—for ourselves and others. Ethan Nichtern teaches us how to do it in formal practice and on the spot whenever suffering arises.