This guided meditation uses techniques of relaxation and imagined visualization to help positively enhance your happiness and inner healing energy through universal loving-kindness This session may also be used for alleviating symptoms of anxiety and depression. By practicing mindful loving kindness you may notice that you are more able to naturally increase your own compassion, tolerance, understanding, and acceptance for both yourself and for others. This meditation experience may be repeated as often as you choose to reinforce your positive intentions.

This powerful meditation practice has the potential to transform your experience with your own thoughts, emotions and ability to empathize with other living beings.

Every Sunday at 9am ET will be an extended version of the Taking & Giving Meditation. It is best if you have meditated a little before attempting these, but if you have not and are intrigued, have at it.

Loving-kindness is not just about empathy, presence, and listening with compassion to others. It is part of the difficult inner work we all face. This is the work of finding self-forgiveness, releasing shame and guilt, and loving ourselves for exactly who we are. Loving-kindness like looking at ourselves in a mirror and expressing love—then letting that love expand and grow, like two mirrors reflecting one another into infinity.

Tonglen Meditation or Taking & Giving is the practice of taking in negative thoughts and feelings and exhaling relief, healing and wishes. This practice affords a feeling of oneness and charity. It is also something that can be done on the spot.

This uplifting, deeply relaxing endorphin meditation for positivity and releasing stress, induce positive states of inner well-being through visualization, affirmations, gratitude, mindfulness practice, breathing techniques and self-compassion.

Taking and Giving Meditation reverses our usual logic of avoiding suffering and seeking pleasure. We visualize taking in the pain of others with every in-breath and sending out whatever will benefit them on the out-breath. In the process, we become liberated from age-old patterns of self-centeredness. We begin to feel love for both ourselves and others; we begin to take care of ourselves and others.

Taking and Giving Meditation awakens our compassion and introduces us to a far bigger view of reality. It introduces us to the unlimited spaciousness of openness. By doing the practice, we begin to connect with the open dimension of our being.