Cultivating Kindness Then Sending It Out

This is a shortened loving-kindness practice intended to help you reconnect with and cultivate kindness for yourself and loved ones before sending it out. Many people who try loving-kindness practice struggle with the first step: sending love and kindness to themselves. With this practice, the guiding will start with a brief body scan to settle and then will begin opening the heart by sending love to friends and loved ones first. After that, you will allow and accept love and kindness for yourself before sending it out to others and the world. It's a great practice to get acquainted with loving-kindness or to support yourself on a hard day.