DAY 1|LOVINGKINDNESS for Self - 10-Day Guided Meditation Practices with Sharon Salzberg

LOVINGKINDNESS for Self - 10-Day Lovingkindness Challenge: Guided Meditation Practices with Sharon Salzberg
Join esteemed teacher Sharon Salzberg for the 10-Day Lovingkindness Challenge: Guided Meditation Practices to Help You Cultivate Love, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity. For anyone looking for ways to find solid ground and greater serenity during our turbulent times, these practices are an entry point for both newcomers to meditation and lifelong practitioners.
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[@fulltruth]

Meditation starts at 12:10

[@kkde9211]

Thank you 🙏

[@denahopeyoga]

Thank you!

[@mettanotation]

Discovering this practice through Sharon has changed my life. It doesn’t make sense why it should work, but somehow it does. If you’re new to it, remember you lose nothing by trying it.

[@ainanawawi176]

May i be/feel safe, be happy, be healthy, live with ease. Such profound phrases, thank u Sharon!

[@barbarafiederl3740]

Thanks again to

[@dreinatcohen6747]

thank you

[@larryjoyceneumark8540]

In this troubled time, we need a center, a refuge. This lovingkindness meditation is such a sanctuary.

[@kjerstibohrer311]

I really love this meditation. I've used it for the last year now and it's given me peace ✌🏽. I love the narrator's voice and gentle guidance. Thank you so much for sharing this. ❤

[@hecthartwelll5937]

Thank you

[@rickwilliamson1865]

This practice is a gift from the heart. From Sharon to us and , in this first day, from us to ourselves.,

[@christineengel562]

I made myself a promise...to give myself a 10 day gift to nurture 'loving kindness.' Thank you Sharon and Sounds True for your generosity.

[@judahhughes781]

Thank you for offering this challenge, I found it at the perfect time. The introduction was great, lots to think about. Love is a practice...

[@paigelambert3910]

Thank you for hosting this challenge... It will be so fine to send this world some love!

[@jennifervukovich2083]

Sharon Salzburg, thank you so much for lovingkindness! This gift is life saving!

[@Kay-rp1fz]

So very grateful for the precious gift of these teachings in a time of great need. A heartfelt thank you to Sharon, Sounds True, and all the great beings and teachers of this path.

[@arieanathompson7559]

Thank you for giving your time and gifts to us. You are beautiful and an inspiration.

[@joanurbanski1010]

Thank you for sharing this practice with us, Sharon. I didn't realize until listening to this first session that Loving Kindness was not "asking," but "gifting" to self and to others. That insight shed a whole new light on the practice for me.

[@barbarajordan5178]

May I be safe. Resonates so powerfully. Didn't realize I wasn't feeling safe until I let this in. After a while I felt safe and was able to let the other phrases in. But returning to safety again and again. Asking "May I" brought a strong sense of humility. Thank you for this.

[@lisaharris4653]

Thank you 🙏

[@kathyks7250]

Such a soothing voice you have.

[@anloism]

I feel safe when I listen to you. You are a friend. And I am a friend too.

[@barbarabraun1273]

I feel the same as Ann Louise.....

[@kellyn3347]

Unfortunately, you cannot watch these and have the full grounding experience without paying for KZbin as it is interrupted with many ads throughout which are at louder volume than Sharon's amazing calm voice.

[@popeyeandolive2458]

Love this, beautifully,gentle pace.

[@jocelynwitsken9970]

Thank you so much for this challenge! Sharon is so gifted and helped me feel calm and strong. 💗

[@MikeFLHT]

Thank you.

[@nikkinanos.mindfulness]

Thank you, the loving-kindness practice gave me such peace as I thought of, and sent one of my dearest friends the energy of safety, happiness, health, and having ease in her life as she was recently diagnosed with cancer.

[@andoanderson51]

Thank you for the clarity you're giving me around the different aspects of loving kindness; sympathetic joy, attention,compassion, equanimity. Also for hosting this 10 day work shop at a time when I for one really really need it.

[@nandinigk3730]

Thank you 🙏🙏

[@paolamarinoni1017]

Thank you so much Sharon, you make difficult concepts easy to understand, you really cleared up my doubts

[@annepaukerkreitzberg7970]

This extremely helpful to me, since I could not really understand how to actually be kind to myself in the same way that I always am to others. Focusing on one age at a time may help me go back and imagine a “redo” of what loving kindness could have meant & changed my life. The great value to me is specific guided instruction and time to practice. Thank you.

[@barbarabraun1273]

Thank you always.....

[@finnianfinnian8359]

💝Sharon thank

[@lisapanaccione5403]

Thank you for sharing this practice. Very calming rings true.

[@antoniaduarte9334]

so powerful, thank you

[@suzygoodspeed3595]

Thank you!!

[@deborahferris330]

With much gratitude, I appreciate this gift you are giving me and others at this time of turmoil.

[@Otterbandana]

🙏🏼 thank you.

[@senyajani6989]

Thank you for this challenge/series and for the guided mediations, Sharon. Thank you for sharing, Sounds True. 🙏 I enjoyed how casual Sharon’s guidance is. The phrases felt like a warm wash of love to myself. The idea of offering this as a gift to myself helped me open to receiving the words, without any pressure to feel or respond a certain way. Namaste 🙏

[@Pessia88]

This is great. Calming the spirit. Thank you

[@user-hs6my7mt7b]

Loving kindness

[@user-hs6my7mt7b]

Loving kindness for my mother, may her heart always pull her through loving kindness for myself, may I be remembered helping my mother

[@user-hs6my7mt7b]

Loving kindness towards my mother, I am trying to maintain a small ego as I am getting her some vegan food. Loving kindness for myself as I get this food, may I get it with ease, and in safety, and I am asking hopefully for it to be healthy and tasty. Loving kindness for others, I am also working in ways to provide vegan to all.

[@dannakromer7232]

Love is a verb

[@juansacristan1673]

It might be. However, it can also be a verb: I'm loving you; an adverb: I lovingly offer you a gift; an adjective: I wish for you a lovely experience. In many languages, there may be different words used for each of these conditions. Mostly I agree that "I love", is enough in and of itself and I strive to live my life, as Sharon said: with A Heart As Wide As The World. It's not easy. When I notice it being painful, I realize that I have an agenda. When I can drop my desires and aversions, I feel at ease, which is when I know I am being myself.

[@naomibaum55]

question to sharon: When I first learned this- the final phrase I learned was: "May I be filled with loving kindness." This has quite a different feel than "May I live my life with ease." Do you have any thoughts on this? Thank you, and thank you for your wonderful gift of these ten days.

[@patricklangston8610]

Im not her but I feel it may have been adapted because being filled with loving kindness is more abstract an idea than living life with ease... imagining ourselves being filled with loving kindness may be harder to visualize than the idea of living our life with ease. The whole idea and intention of loving kindness is at the forefront of our mind and thoughts while doing the meditation so I think it may be sort of redundant... maybe like if you did a confidence meditation and said "may I be strong, personable, outgoing, may I be filled with confidence." The whole purpose of the meditation is confidence and its a very general and broad concept of what constitutes a feeling of "confidence". It also puts emphasis on this idea that you aren't already being filled with confidence through progress of your meditation practice. Not sure where this idea comes from that you have to specifically ask for it. But if you said "may I be strong, personable, outgoing, may I live my life with ease" maybe thats sort of putting the power in the meditator to consciously choose to live their life with ease in regards to embodying these feelings. Maybe it puts a feeling of us being the conscious actor, and visualizing ourselves embodying these characteristics rather than being one who is mysteriously being acted upon. Maybe the old way wasn't so bad just kinda playing devils advocate if I had to reason why she may have changed it. Just if i had to guess lol

[@biancavanemmerik6337]

I love the video.. but after 17 somewhat.. sitting with the phrase.. i am getting dead anxiety! I think because of my severe past trauma.. but this surprised me a bit!

[@raek8940]

Thank you!

[@richardh8082]

Thank you