Greetings and salutations from empowerment.
I would like to share with you my own personal meta or loving kindness practice.
I highly recommend that regardless of which loving kindness practice you utilize that you consider using it as a bookend to your days.
Take the time to do a loving practice at the beginning of your day when you first awake and again just before you go to bed at night.
This helps upload the ideas and concepts within the loving kindness into your mind and also into your emotional state.
I have been doing this practice for many years and I have found it to be particularly beneficial to quell anxiety,
Stress,
Panic attacks and depression.
Please find a comfortable way to sit.
Allow your eyes to go out of focus or to gently close and take three sweeping diaphragmatic breaths filling up from your diaphragm through your mid-lungs and side bodies all the way into the upper lungs and then transitioning smoothly into your exhale making your exhales as complete as possible by drawing your belly button towards your spine.
You may simply listen to my words or you may choose to repeat the phrases along with me.
May I be content and happy.
May I be at peace and at ease with myself and the world.
May I love myself.
May I feel love.
May I forgive myself.
May I forgive all that needs to be forgiven.
May no problems come to me.
May no difficulties come to me.
May I always find fulfillment.
May I have patience,
Courage,
Wisdom,
Understanding and perseverance to deal with the inevitable challenges and difficulties of this life.
May I be safe.
May I be well.
May I be free from suffering.
May my biological and extended family,
My friends,
My acquaintances,
My teachers and students,
All of the many service people who make my life possible and any and all non-human lives that share my life with me be content and happy.
May they be at peace and at ease with themselves and the world.
May they love themselves.
May they feel loved.
May they forgive themselves.
May they forgive all that needs to be forgiven.
May no problems come to them.
May no difficulties come to them.
May no danger or harm come to them.
May they always find fulfillment.
May they have patience,
Courage,
Wisdom,
Understanding and perseverance to deal with the inevitable challenges and difficulties of this life.
May they be safe.
May they be well.
May they be free from suffering.
May all living beings,
Plants,
Insects,
Reptiles,
Amphibians,
Fish,
Vertebrates and invertebrates,
Mammals and non-mammals,
All beings who live on the earth or in the earth,
All beings who live in the seas or on the seas,
All beings that live in the air or on the air,
May all living things be content and happy.
May they be at peace and at ease with themselves and the world.
May they love themselves.
May they feel love.
May they forgive themselves.
May they forgive all that needs to be forgiven.
May no problems come to them.
May no difficulties come to them.
May no danger or harm come to them.
May they always find fulfillment.
May they have patience,
Courage,
Wisdom,
Understanding and perseverance to deal with the inevitable challenges and difficulties of this life.
May they be safe.
May they be well.
May they be free from suffering.
May the suffering ones be suffering free.
May the fear struck,
Fearless be.
May the grieving shed all their grief.
May the sick find health relief.
Thank you for sharing your practice with me today.
May this version of loving kindness bring the contentment and joy into your life that it has created in my own.
May we all become the people we wish to be so that we may be of greater service to all beings.
May God bless you and God bless you.
