Loving-Kindness For Stress Reduction
With Monti Narayan DattaLoving kindness meditation is a tool that can help us reduce stress. It starts with calming the mind and body, centering with the breath, and learning how to generate well being for ourselves from the inside out. This can be a powerful, liberating experience, to create a fountain of self-love from within. Then, if we wish, can project that energy outwards, toward our loved ones. Next, if we wish, we can project that energy outward toward those with whom we might be in disagreement. In this course, we will learn the tools of loving-kindness meditation. Part 1 starts with loving kindness for ourselves. Part 2 explores sending loving kindness to our loved ones. Part 3 looks at sending loving kindness to our acquaintances. Part 4 focuses on sending love to all living beings, near or far. Part 5 concludes.
This is a five-day course on loving kindness to help with reducing stress in our daily lives.
About this course
Loving kindness meditation is a tool that can help us reduce stress. It starts with calming the mind and body, centering with the breath, and learning how to generate well being for ourselves from the inside out. This can be a powerful, liberating experience, to create a fountain of self-love from within. Then, if we wish, can project that energy outwards, toward our loved ones. Next, if we wish, we can project that energy outward toward those with whom we might be in disagreement. In this course, we will learn the tools of loving-kindness meditation. Part 1 starts with loving kindness for ourselves. Part 2 explores sending loving kindness to our loved ones. Part 3 looks at sending loving kindness to our acquaintances. Part 4 focuses on sending love to all living beings, near or far. Part 5 concludes.
Meet your Teacher
Monti Narayan Datta is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Richmond, where he teaches meditation to college students. Monti has been involved in mindfulness-based programming at the University of Richmond since 2017, after he returned from a year-long sabbatical in Southeast Asia. Living in Thailand, Monti studied Theravada Buddhism from his teacher, Hartanto Gunawan. Monti is also trained in the KORU method, teaching mindfulness to young persons. Since 2020, he has also taught weekly online meditation classes to formerly incarcerated persons in the Greater Richmond Area. He has also began to study Tibetan Bon Buddhism and has taken an eight-week course in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction.