Mindfulness Meditation (For Everyday Life)

your being, and a kindness you perhaps did not
receive enough of as a child. Let yourself bask in this
energy of loving kindness, breathing it in and
breathing it out, as if it were a lifeline, long in disrepair
but finally passing along a nourishment you were
starving for.
Invite feelings of peacefulness and acceptance to be
present in you. Some people find it valuable to say to
themselves from time to time such things as: "May I
be free from ignorance. May I be free from greed and
hatred. May I not suffer. May I be happy." But the
words are just meant to evoke feelings of loving
kindness. They are a wishing oneself well -
consciously formed intentions to be free now, in this
moment at least, from the problems we so often
make for ourselves or compound for ourselves
through our own fear and forgetfulness.
Once you have established yourself as a center of
love and kindness radiating throughout your being,
which amounts to a cradling of yourself in loving
kindness and acceptance, you can dwell here
indefinitely, drinking at this fount, bathing in it,
renewing yourself, nourishing yourself, enlivening
yourself. This can be a profoundly healing practice for
body and soul.