Loving-Kindness

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

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

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

Valerie Mason-John shares a meditation for cultivating a positive relationship with yourself, and, by extension, the world.

Peggy Rowe Ward and Larry Ward on how to give the wounded child inside you the love and compassion they deserve.

For many of us, opening our hearts to ourselves may be the hardest part of the path. Here, the late John Welwood shares how and why meditation helped him do it — unconditionally.

Pema Khandro Rinpoche on a bodhisattva’s love.