Wondrous Loving Kindness Meditation
Check out this ancient meditation and bask in its effects. Rick Hanson, Ph.D., the neuropsychologist who wrote Buddha’s Brain, sites brain scan research showing the beneficial health effects of meditation, especially a loving kindness mindfulness meditation like this one. If you decide to try the audio tape, I’d love to hear how it made you feel. Or just try saying the following words slowly to yourself, pausing between lines to fill yourself with the intention. Enjoy!
- May I be held in loving kindness.
- May I be filled with loving kindness.
- May I accept myself exactly as I am.
- May I feel the joy and wonder of being alive.
- May I feel deep and natural peace.
- May my heart and mind awaken.
- May I be free!
After that, say it again, this time thinking of someone you love:
- May they be held in loving kindness.
- May they be filled with loving kindness
- May they accept themselves exactly as they are.
- May they feel the joy and wonder of being alive.
- May they feel deep and natural peace.
- My their hearts and minds awaken.
- May they be free.
Finally, say it again, this time applying it to everyone you know, your friends and relatives, colleagues, everyone in our country and in all the countries, all the creatures on the earth, birds in the sky and fish in the sea:
- May they be held in loving kindness.
- May they be filled with loving kindness
- May they accept themselves exactly as they are.
- May they feel the joy and wonder of being alive.
- May they feel deep and natural peace.
- My their hearts and minds awaken.
- May they be free.
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Jeanne Mayell is a professional intuitive and author who gives private life readings and offers tools to help people develop their psychic abilities. In 2015, Mayell was named by Coast to Coast AM radio as one of America’s most gifted Tarot readers. Holding Master Degrees from the Harvard School of Public Health and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, an MA in Counseling Psychology from Framingham State University, and published in The Atlantic and other national journals, she is not only a gifted intuitive, but brings an academic and intellectual perspective to the world of psychic readings and intuition training.
Sensing that an era of profound and accelerated change is upon us, Mayell has been teaching people to expand the intuitive gifts we are all born with. In this way, we will be able to navigate the coming changes for ourselves, our families and others. She teaches classes in Tarot, Prophecy, Positive Psychology, and mindfulness — all ways to find inner guidance.
Mayell has also worked as a health writer (Atlantic Monthly, American Health Magazine, and EastWest Journal), and was the Massachusetts Medicaid Director, a policy analyst for the City of New York’s health and welfare programs, and a research consultant on national health and welfare programs. She has co-authored two books on health and welfare and is currently writing a book on intuition and the Tarot.
Love this mantra-meditation Jeanne! it’s a medicine, I can feel it each time I say it for myself or another, it stretches the muscles for compassion, it dissolves grudges, it softens the hard edges or walls built around the heart, it’s also a great mantra to help me forgive myself and others. I am sure there are even more benefits! thank you for sharing it with us.