Loving Kindness Meditation
I read about a woman who went on a 40 day meditation retreat. One of the meditations she was instructed to do was to hold her palms in front of her chest, keeping them slightly open, and gaze into the space between them and for 11 minutes, she was to choose a person to focus on, such as her significant other, or someone she loves, and imagine them happy–really, really, happy–allowing whatever images to come to her mind. Of course try to stay with your breath too, so that you feel connected to your body. By the end of the course, and when she was to go home and interact with her husband, she could only feel extreme gratitude and unconditional love for him. She realized that she did not need to change him, but rather she changed, her perspective changed as her heart opened up.
Try this meditation everyday for the next week, and just see what happens!
Yoga class at Lincoln elementary
