Advancing Loving Kindness - Just Practice

This 12-minute guided Advancing Loving Kindness practice is in the tradition of Jon Kabat-Zinn's Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course (MBSR). Listeners practice extending loving kindness, a form of compassion, to themselves, a dear one, an acquaintance or stranger, a difficult person, and to all beings. Listeners will state silently or aloud wishes for all living beings, including themselves, to live in safety, health, and happiness, and to live with ease.

This track is the fourth of a four-track Loving Kindness series. Listeners who are not familiar with the recitation practice of loving kindness may find it useful to work first with the track Beginning Loving Kindness - Lesson and Practice. Listeners who are not accustomed to including difficult people in their loving kindness practice may find it useful to work with the track Advancing Loving Kindness - Lesson and Practice.

This practice begins and ends with the chime of three bells and includes references to breathing.