Mindfulness with Nathanael ROUX
Loving kindness
Goal
: Develop Loving kindness (Metta or Maitri)
Help:
- send loving kindness step by step
- someone for who
it is easy to generate loving kindness
Advice:
- silent recitation
of the wish
- may all beings
everywhere be free from suffering and may all beings be peaceful and
happy
- may you be
well, may you be happy, may you be peaceful, may you be loved
Benefit: develop our loving kindness (from partial to unconditional)
Practical exercise: for every people you encounter, send the wish « may
you be happy », and observe the impact (in you)
Gain: develop empathy and compassion; take into account the global
interest more often in our choices
Commentary
I warmly recommend this
unformal loving kindness practice.
During one full week, every time you encounter someone, you send him
the wish « may you be happy ».
- To your family
members
- To your neighbours
- To your work
colleagues
- When you drive,
to all the other drivers and pedestrian
- When you are
doing some shopping, to all the other people you encounter
- When you walk
outside, to every people and animals you see…
Observe what you feel
inside when you send this happiness wish to others (including people
who are strangers for you).
Feel the associated body sensations you could perceive.
Observe if the feelings evolve during the week.
Check if it changes your relationship to others in any way.
See if others change their behavior toward you, or not.
Debrief your practice at the end of the week.
My experience feedback
I do love
this unformal loving kindness practice, to wish to others to be happy
fill my heart with joy.
I do it very often and especially every time I go shopping in my
preferred supermarket.
A smile blossom naturaly while I encounter people to who I wish to be
happy.
And regularly, strangers send me back a smile (but if no-one do it, I’m
nevertheless totaly satisfied).
Step8 : Synthesis
