Metta (Loving-Kindness) Meditation -
We meet the first Saturday of every Month at 10:45am
What is Loving Kindness Meditation? Loving Kindness Meditation or Metta meditation is a centuries old practice that originally comes from the Buddhist tradition. It involves repeating a set of phrases sending out your well wishes that you, and all beings, be happy, healthy, and live in peace.
May I (you / we) be happy
May I (you / we) be healthy
May I (you / we) live in peace
You begin by saying these phrases to yourself and then to an increasingly wider group: starting with someone you love or feel close to, then someone neutral, someone you have some negative feelings about, and finally expanding this out to all beings everywhere. The practice of loving-kindness is about cultivating love as a strength, a muscle, a tool that challenges our tendency to see people (including ourselves) as disconnected and rigidly isolated from one another. Loving-kindness is about opening ourselves up to others with compassion and equanimity, which is a challenging exercise, requiring us to push back against assumptions, prejudices, and labels that most of us have internalized. And as I’ve found with a lot of aspects of yoga, It’s only when you actually come to your mat and practice with intention and awareness can we start to fully understand.
Benefits of Loving Kindness Meditation
Increased positive emotions such as love, joy and hope which leads to improvements in purpose in life, social support and life satisfaction. Reduced self-criticism and depressive symptoms in self-critical individuals, increased empathy, reduced symptoms anger, and psychological distress and is known to bring immediate relaxation benefits with just 5 minutes of loving-kindness meditation.
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