Radiate Metta

Remaining present and intimate with the moment requires "maitri" - the Buddhist practice of loving-kindness toward oneself.

With "maitri", you're not trying to solve a problem or making the pain go away or becoming a better person. It is giving up control altogether and letting c...

Loving-kindness and compassion meditation involves cultivating a love for people who are suffering. Loving-kindness meditation can change your neural circuitry even faster than mindfulness meditation.

Typically, in loving-kindness meditation, you repeat certain phrases in your hea...

• Notice when you’re feeling stress or resistance about change.
• Drop into the pure experience of the moment.
• Open to the wide-open nature of this moment, of reality.
• Relax into the beauty of the changing moment.
• Practice compassion, gratitude and joyful apprecia...