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In this meditation, Holly O’Dea, a Mayo Clinic Certified Wellness Coach, will walk us through a self-love meditation focusing on love, kindness, and cultivating warmth and friendliness to ourselves. We all have within us this natural capacity for love and kindness, the natural opening of a compassionate heart to ourselves and others, and the wish that everyone be happy and free from suffering. Holly O’Dea is an Online Support Community facilitator at Partnership to End Addiction. You can learn more about her at odeawellness.com.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:20 We all have within us a natural capacity for love and kindness
00:44 Become comfortable
01:20 Gently close your eyes and settle into awareness of your body and breath
01:17 Connecting to your breath, noticing the coolness or warmth
01:45 Open up to your basic goodness
02:01 Your natural desire to live with ease
02:11 Look at yourself through the eyes of someone who loves you
02:39 Bring to mind a picture of yourself as a young child
03:00 Notice how you feel in your body
03:19 Rest for a few moments with this feeling of open warmth and tenderness
03:37 We begin to wish ourselves well by extending words of love and kindness
03:48 May I be happy, may I be safe, and may I have peace
04:08 Take some time to feel the sense of tenderness and love wash over you
04:19 Take a few deep breaths into and out of your heart space
04:38 Bring to mind someone you know who is suffering
04:46 Hold them with kindness and compassion in your mind's eye
05:06 Begin to wish this person love and kindness
05:14 May you be safe, may you be happy, may you be free of suffering
05:41 Kindness and compassion for ourselves and our loved one
05:54 Doing this practice can soften your heart space allowing compassion to grow
06:07 Send love and kindness to all beings on this planet
06:30 May all beings be happy, may all beings be safe
07:02 Bring your awareness back to your own body and breath
07:22 Slowly become aware of the room that you are seated in
07:41 Conclusion
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