Hello and welcome.
My name is Carolyn,
And I wanted to offer up a loving kindness meditation for whenever you are feeling overwhelmed.
It is particularly challenging right now with all that is going on in the world.
And we can feel really helpless and feel that so many things are outside of our control.
But we can do something good,
Even if it is just small.
This effect has been called the Marahachi effect,
Which is the impact a group of people coming together with pure and good intentions can have on the world in a positive way.
The majority of that research has been done on transcendental meditation,
But I think that the impact is far beyond that.
So just having that good intention in your heart and sending it out into the world is huge.
And we're going to do exactly that today.
So find your way into a comfortable seat.
Allow your spine to get nice and long.
And start to arrive in your breath,
In your body in this time,
In this space,
Breathing in,
Filling up and breathing out,
Releasing a little bit of that tension,
A little bit of that anxiety with every exhale,
Release it.
And then in your mind's eye,
I want you to see yourself in a safe,
Beautiful place that you love and have a connection to.
And we're going to start with that loving kindness to you first.
In your mind's eye,
Repeat after me.
May my spirit be strong and kind.
May I be safe and protected.
May I be filled with courage and the desire to do good.
And may I be guided by love,
Kindness,
And pure intentions.
Allow all of that to soak in,
To seep into every cell of your body.
And then in your mind's eye,
Thinking of a group of people that are suffering,
Maybe all the people that are suffering,
Or in particular right now,
The Ukrainians,
To those people,
Send out this loving kindness message,
Repeating after me in your mind's eye.
May your spirit be strong and kind.
May you be safe and protected.
May you be filled with courage and the desire to do good.
And may you be guided by love,
Kindness,
And pure intentions,
Sending out all of those ripples of positivity to those suffering right now.
And then perhaps a little bit harder,
This is what will change the world,
Is to send out this loving kindness meditation to the political leaders that are making these decisions.
To those individuals in your mind's eye,
Repeat after me.
May your spirit be strong and kind.
May you be safe and protected.
May you be filled with courage and the desire to do good.
And may you be guided by love,
Kindness,
And pure intentions.
To those individuals,
Send out those beautiful ripples of loving kindness.
And take one more deep inhale here.
Fill up.
One more deep exhale,
Release,
And know that you have done something good today,
Something good for you,
And something good for the world,
However small that is.
Thank you so much for spending this time with me.
Love,
Light,
And Namaste.
