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 that 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.
And observing anything that comes into your attention in that same way.
And when you hear the bell ring,
Just bringing this way of looking out into the world.
