Loving-Kindness For Stress Reduction - by Monti Narayan Datta

COURSE

Loving-Kindness For Stress Reduction

With Monti Narayan Datta

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.

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Meet your Teacher

Monti Narayan Datta
Richmond, VA, USA

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.

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5 Days

963 students

4.6 stars

13 min / day

Happiness

English

Lesson 1

Loving-Kindness For Yourself

This first part of the course explores loving kindness for yourself. It starts with some breathing exercises and guided visualization, imagining that you are sending love, grace, and compassion to yourself.

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Lesson 2

Loving-Kindness For Close Friends And Loved Ones

This next part of our course about loving kindness is about extending thoughts of love, grace, and compassion to close friends and loved ones. The course helps us deepen a connection to those whom we hold the most dear.

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Lesson 3

Loving-Kindness For Colleagues

This next part of the course creates a space for generating thoughts of love and compassion for colleagues and acquaintances--those with whom we might interact routinely but not know very well. It allows us to deepen a space for greater kinship with those in our community.

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Lesson 4

Loving-Kindness For All Living Beings

This last part of the course teaches a way to practice loving kindness for all living beings--near or far--including people, animals, plants, and mother earth herself. It is a healing practice to feel connected and love for all of us.

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Lesson 5

Concluding Thoughts

This lesson offers a few words about the power of loving kindness, and how it can be a tool to keep us in balance, and connected to one another when sometimes we might feel disconnected from the world.

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Recent Reviews

Mike

Mike

September 29, 2023

Very gentle, special course for opening the heart. It's already made a difference healing some pain in my life. Thank you for this teaching.

Diana

Diana

September 21, 2023

Enjoyed the short course especially the loving kindness for self of the first session. There is a technical issue with no sound at the beginning of lesson 4. If not for That I would give 5 stars. Monti has a soothing and calm voice and I will look out for more of his meditations.

Noah

Noah

August 17, 2023

This was a nice class. Thank you for sharing your ♥️

KatieG

KatieG

May 26, 2023

Nothing is more important than cultivating a practice of loving kindness for ourselves and others. Thank you for the course content and the love shining through! 🙏🏼❤️

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