Hello and welcome to The Daily Insight.
My name is Bodhi Pakcha and in today's meditation we'll be focusing on being kinder to ourselves,
Wishing you a self-compassionate period of practice.
So as you're settling into your meditation posture,
Just call to mind what would it mean to sit with kindness.
Perhaps it means not holding yourself rigidly and allowing the body to be at ease.
But it may also mean sitting with a sense of poise and dignity,
Letting the body be upright and open,
So that you can have an open heart and so you can breathe freely.
And I just invite you to bring your attention to your eyes.
And as you do so,
Recall what it's like to look with love.
So we've all had this experience of looking with tender love,
Perhaps at a child or a lover or even a pet.
So as you call some memory of looking in that way to mind,
Just being aware of whatever qualities arise around the eyes,
Perhaps elsewhere in the body.
Just allowing those qualities to persist as you bring your attention into the body.
Observing this body breathing.
Observing the rise and fall of the breathing with a sense of tenderness and appreciation and warmth.
Sometimes there's discomfort present in our experience.
Sometimes emotional discomfort like sadness or anxiety.
Sometimes physical discomfort like a sore back or an aching knee.
And just seeing if you can regard those experiences with warmth and kindness.
They're just parts of you that are suffering and they need your compassionate attention.
They long for acceptance to be included,
To be cared for.
Observing the breathing with kindness.
Observing any uncomfortable feelings or painful sensations in the body with kindness.
Letting kindness permeate your entire field of awareness so that whatever you become aware of,
You become aware of in a kind way.
And when you hear the bell ring,
Just bringing this way of looking out into the world.
