A guided meditation starting with breath and body awareness to bring us into a deep meditative state moving into breath awareness practice and finished up by sending loving energy to a loved one. Once the love has been growing within us, we add ourselves to receiving the love. This technique is key in becoming aware of our thoughts and identifying when we have become lost in thought. This is a practice. Be gentle with yourself as you practice vipassana style meditations. At the end of the meditation we generate a loving feeling by picturing someone that we love and adore and then include ourselves in receiving that love. Starting with someone we love allows a more successful transition to including ourselves for many of us have a challenge simply loving ourselves.