So,
Our meditation today,
Following the way of Metta Extending loving kindness to reach and touch all beings Take a moment just to arrive To allow yourself to be settled where you are Comfortable but alert Connected Noticing your connection with the ground,
The surface below And knowing also that you are connected from within With your higher self With Source With everything that is the ground of being Closing your eyes if that's comfortable And starting by inviting loving kindness for yourself If it helps,
We might think of loving kindness as being An invitation to be whole To be happy To be free from suffering To be connected with and to dwell in the heart Rather than in the brain To be healed To be at peace So inviting these qualities,
These blessings if you like For yourself Desiring to be happy To be at peace To be free from suffering There's no need to do anything To think anything Simply to be open,
Trusting,
Ready to receive You might imagine breathing in these qualities These gifts As though directly breathing into the heart And with each out-breath letting go of anything that doesn't serve you That gets in the way Wholeness Freedom from suffering Healing Dwelling in the heart Happiness Peace As you embrace,
Welcome,
Accept these gifts Allow them to fill you In so doing,
Being filled with a compassion for others A desire for others to enjoy the same Bringing to heart people who are particularly close to you Family,
Friends,
Partners Others who have a very special place in your heart Willing for them to be happy,
To be free from suffering To know their wholeness To dwell in the heart To be healed To be at peace If it helps you might like to hold out your hands As though you were sending a blessing Sending a wave of love in their direction Seeing them embraced in light Seeing them smile Now bringing to mind someone that perhaps you don't know very well May not even know their name May even have only passed them by on one or two occasions Someone you've met at the local store A delivery driver The person that brings the mail A neighbor you pass on the street walking their dog Holding that person in your mind and heart And willing for them and their unknown circumstances To be bathed in pure white light Embraced in love To be healed,
Freed from suffering To be made whole To dwell in the heart To be happy To be at peace Now taking a moment to bring someone who may be challenging You may not always see or have always seen eye to eye with Maybe someone known to you Or it may be someone in the news Someone you've heard about Someone who you may find hard to love But now taking a moment to appreciate that they are fallible human beings With needs With insecurities With worries With wounds Desiring for them to be bathed in light Light that transforms That uplifts in love Brings rebirth as it were Brings peace Wholeness Happiness A dwelling found in the heart Freedom from suffering We can allow ourselves to be compassionate To those who have caused us harm perhaps Troubled us We are ready to extend our desire for all human beings And indeed all of life,
Animal,
Plant To be happy To be in balance In harmony Whole Free from suffering To dwell in the heart To be healed To be at peace To be happy To be bathed in this same beautiful light Bringing these precious qualities as they fill you Reaching out to touch others And so it is So now just taking a moment Gently allowing yourself to remember where you are The physical place where you are When you're ready Opening your eyes
