Loving-Kindness

Being our own best friend is a challenging feat. Kate Johnson explains how meditation can help us get to know our inner critics and prevent them from hindering our path to liberation.

Melvin Escobar teaches metta, a concentration practice to cultivate unconditional goodwill for all. In precarious times like these, it’s a way to listen to our hearts.

Mushim Patricia Ikeda teaches us how to generate loving-kindness and good will as an antidote to hatred and fear.

Metta meditation is healing and heart-opening. Arisika Razak leads us through the practice.

Lisa Ernst shares a practice to offer kindness to your difficult thoughts.

Ayya Khema on cultivating loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.

On the inbreath, says Judy Lief, take in what is bad, freeing others from it. On the outbreath, offer what is good.