"A Dedication To Love" Meditation

Dr. Michael McGee's "A Dedication to Love" meditation. With more than 30 years of experience in psychiatry, Dr. McGee specializes in integrating psychiatric treatment with spiritually informed interventions and practices. He is the creator of Awakening Therapy, a contemplative-relational approach to psychiatric treatment, and The WellMind Method, a practice that teaches people how to use love to heal wounds caused by trauma and neglect.

Transcript

This is a prayerful dedication of one's life to a life of love.

I adapted it from the prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi.

You can use it to set an intention at the beginning of each day to live a life of love,

To love yourself and others in all you say and do each and every day.

This is a great prayer to meditate upon by memorizing it and reciting it silently over and over.

You can also say this prayer to yourself at the beginning of your day.

Use it to set an intention at the beginning of each day to live a life of love,

To love yourself and others in all you say and do each day.

Notice how over time it shapes your attitudes and actions as your day unfolds.

If you want,

Let this meditation prayer inspire you to write your own personal life dedication.

Now let me recite the prayer for you.

May I be a channel of love.

May I heal hatred with love,

Harm with forgiveness,

Doubt with faith,

Despair with hope,

Darkness with light,

Sadness with joy.

May I seek more to console than to be consoled,

To understand than to be understood,

To love than to be loved.

For I know that in giving we receive,

In forgiving we are forgiven,

And in transcending self we realize our greatest joy.