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I think about Metta meditation like a gateway drug into falling in love with your heart.
Metta means ‘loving kindness’, and in this meditation the object is the feeling of pure love in your heart. Using your breath you expand that feeling as wide as your heart will allow (hint: much, much further than you think)
It gets gooey and cozy and feels really, really good. One of the reasons why Metta is a favorite mediation practice of mine.
This version is inspired by my teacher davidji. As I was working to awaken my own heart this is the meditation I kept coming to over and over again. In the process I built more trust and confidence that there is no limit to love, and my heart really can expand to include everyone.
If love towards self and others is something you want to work on, I recommend doing this meditation every morning for several weeks until the loving feeling starts to arise spontaneously outside meditation.
Enjoy! Much love 💜
P.S. This meditation and a conversation on love was the topic of our recent bi-weekly community call. If you’d like to be added to the invite, send me an email or DM, and keep an eye on the chat section in the Substack app where I will be sharing the invite before each call.
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