Your relationship with yourself is the longest relationship that you will have with anyone in life.
So it is important to love and appreciate yourself for the unique and beautiful human being that you are.
Unconditionally loving and appreciating yourself will help you to make mindful and caring decisions about what you need in life and this will help you to support your mind,
Body and spirit in the ways that are best for you.
This loving kindness meditation will help you to nurture feelings of unconditional love and appreciation for yourself exactly as you are right now in this moment.
Let's begin by sitting in a comfortable upright position that will allow you to breathe deeply and with ease.
If you are comfortable doing so you may gently close your eyes or else you can just softly gaze at a spot in front of you.
Take a deep breath in allowing a sense of ease and relaxation to enter your body.
As you breathe out allow all tension to flow from your body.
Let's do this for three more breaths.
Inhale ease and relaxation into your body and release all tension from your body as you exhale.
Inhale ease and relaxation and release tension with your exhale.
Inhale ease and relaxation and release every last bit of tension from your body.
Now allow your breath to return to its natural pattern.
Spend the next few moments observing your breath in your heart area.
There is no need to change or control your breath.
Just focus on the area around your heart and feel your breath as it softly expands this area and lightly leaves your body again.
So carefully shift your focus to your mental image of yourself.
Perhaps you connect with your own name or a visual image or idea about yourself.
Focus on holding yourself within that space in your heart.
Hold yourself in your heart tenderly with love and compassion.
Now quietly say to yourself May I be healthy.
May I be peaceful.
May my life be filled with joy.
Breathe these words into your heart opening yourself up to the fact that you deserve to feel healthy peaceful and joyful.
May I be healthy.
Take this thought to any part of your body mind or spirit that may not be feeling completely well and hold it there.
Allow your thoughts of health to permeate every part of your every part of your being.
May I be peaceful.
Take this thought to any part of your being that is not feeling completely at peace at the moment.
Invite acceptance into your thoughts.
Allow peace to fill your entire being.
May my life be filled with joy.
Allow yourself to tap into what joy feels like to you.
Connect with gratitude for your capacity to experience joy.
Allow joyful thoughts to seep into all parts of your being.
Feel your heart opening and expanding with love.
Hold yourself carefully inside your loving heart and tenderly repeat these kind wishes to yourself.
May I be healthy.
May I be peaceful.
May my life be filled with joy.
Know that you can connect to your heart energy and these kind wishes towards yourself whenever you need to.
You carry this loving energy within your heart wherever you go.
Now allow this loving feeling to stay with you throughout the rest of your day.
May you be healthy.
May you be peaceful.
May your life be filled with joy.
