Week 6- Practicing Loving Kindness

As I practice the Loving Kindness Meditation

I am discovering a lighter feeling within my daily living.

I am enjoying this practice daily.

I did find an interesting script which has helped my focus.

Strangely enough it is called a "secular" meditation.

Those of you that know me, know I can have to center on Christ.

You will see my input to this script in (yellow)

Secular Loving Kindness Practice (Donald McCown, 2010)

Taking your usual posture for meditation... feeling your body where it makes contact with the support beneath you, and settling in... perhaps centering yourself by making the

breath the focus of your attention...

Feeling the breath moving and the body sitting...

And when you are ready, bringing to mind someone that it is easy to feel loving kindness towards... someone from the past or present, perhaps a child, or a pet... an easy, (someone you have been blessed with)

simple relationship may be best...  

Allowing yourself to hold them in your awareness perhaps seeing them in your mind’s eye or perhaps feeling a sense of them in your heart... can you feel a sense of loving kindness towards them?

As you hold them in your awareness, beginning to send wishes of loving kindness to them .... Silently repeating these phrases (prayer)

May you be peaceful and happy
May you be safe from harm
May you be as healthy and strong as you can be
May you live with ease of well-being ...

 When you’re ready, allow the image or felt sense of your chosen one to fade, and seeing how it is for you to be the one who receives loving kindness ... 
resting here in your own kind regard, sending yourself these well wishes (prayers), allowing yourself to take in these phrases, to say them silently for yourself  ...

 May I be peaceful and happy
May I be safe from all inner and outer harm
May I be as healthy and strong as I can be
May I live with ease of well-being ...

 Maybe it seems artificial and stilted to say such things to yourself, for yourself... maybe you’re not feeling loving kindness in this moment - and that’s OK
whatever you’re feeling, you can hold the intention of loving kindness... offering it from wherever you are... however you are now ....

So practicing once more... noticing how you may be drawn towards this practice or drawn away from it...

May I be peaceful and happy
May I be safe from harm
May I be as healthy and strong as I can be
May I live with ease of well-being..

( I also go a step further and pray for those I will cross paths with. I find that as I do this in my meditations, I look for opportunities to share Loving-Kindness to other. Sometimes it is just a smile other times it is an act of service. No matter what it is, I "see" more possibilities when I do this!!)

This was found at Thinking Healthy  http://www.thinkinghealthy.com.au/page6.php