Loving-Kindness Meditation

My experience with the Loving-Kindness meditation was beneficial to me. I naturally have a loving-kindness personality, but I do become weak and agitated at times when too many things seem to be going wrong at one time, involving too many people. So, for me to be able to reach out and take in the suffering of a loved one and allow it to just “be” and breathe out happiness and health was very uplifting. It helped me reach calm abiding, and gives me the sense of unity with those I meditate on.

I found myself taking in the suffering of more than one loved one, which I am assuming is ok. There is no right or wrong way to allow loving-kindness to manifest in ourselves.

When it was time to take in the suffering of those who are beyond my loved ones, or those I may not know, I thought of those suffering with catastrophic illnesses and I breathed out health and healing and think about their ability to see their illness as a manifestation of something that needs to be addressed either physically or spiritually, or both, and that will be shown to them in a thought or vision.

I also thought of those who live in constant turmoil, agitation, poverty, addictions, and hatred. It is those people who need a distant and divine manifestation to intercede into their lives because they will never find it without that.

I thought of those who are greedy and materialistic, and breathe out a sense of charity to them. At some point, they will begin to understand we are all in this together and to be greedy or materialistic only shuts them out of the big picture.

I feel peaceful when I come back to my surroundings and I have a renewed strength and encouragement to keep faith that my life purpose will continue to manifest and I will continue to have success. I will not doubt my abilities, nor of the Divine’s intentions for my life, and I realize that I am just a grain of sand on the beaches and my worries and my ego have no place in this peaceful bliss I now enjoy, and hope to enjoy again and again. I will practice this meditation at least twice a day, or more as needed, and I hope to be able to manifest that sense of peace in my life at all times of the day.

I definitely recommend anyone to try this exercise. It helps alleviate stress and can improve one’s health, but even more than that, it can help fulfill a sense of unity all of us truly want but may feel is elusive in this world. When that curtain is pulled back and you see the warmth and white light of truth, peace and unity, your life purpose is revealed when you just let go and let be, and allow yourself to be filled with loving-kindness.

Paula