LOVE is my Mantra

Yesterday I centered our class all around love and and the Loving-Kindness meditation.  It seems to be exactly what is needed right now.  In a week of feeling so deeply and so many emotions, I am recognizing the importance to continue to draw love to the surface so that it doesn't get buried underneath everything else.  For our own sake, for our loved one's sake and for the entire world.  Say and feel it all because it is all important, but at the end of the day remember to draw from, act from and choose from love first.  It's how the good guys always win.  

So that you can access it whenever needed this week and beyond, I am posting the loving-kindness mediation below.  If you want to join in and take yesterday's class, please sign up over on the classes page!  Happy Monday everyone.  Love, love, love to you all.  


This is a meditation for loving-kindness

Sitting comfortably, close your eyes and take a few settling breaths.  Bringing your attention to your heart.  Beginning with yourself, for it is impossible to love others without loving yourself first, repeat the following silently at your heart:

May I be filled with lovingkindness 
May I be safe from inner and outer dangers
May I be well in body and mind
May I be at ease and happy

Inhale and hold. Exhale.

For those who have taught you to love.  Your parents, teachers, lovers and inspirations:

May you be filled with lovingkindness
May you be safe from inner and outer dangers
May you be well in body and mind
May you be at ease and happy

Inhale and hold. Exhale.

For those in your life whom it is easy to love. Who effortlessly draw love from your heart:

May you be filled with lovingkindness
May you be safe from inner and outer dangers
May you be well in body and mind
May you be at ease and happy

Inhale and hold. Exhale.

For those who you struggle to love and understand.  Who perhaps it seems as though to love them would be impossible:

May you be filled with lovingkindness
May you be safe from inner and outer dangers
May you be well in body and mind
May you be at ease and happy

Inhale hold. Exhale.

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