Cultivating Loving Kindness Within, Day 1: "5 Stages of Loving Kindness" meditation series

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

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🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to our 7-day meditation series taking you on a journey through the five stages of loving compassion. With guided meditation designed to nurture and uplift your inner spirit, this soothing journey will have you embark on a voyage of self-discovery, exploring the boundless depths of your heart and uncovering the radiant light of loving-kindness within. Through gentle guidance and heartfelt affirmations, you'll learn to embrace yourself with compassion, kindness, and acceptance, awakening the inherent beauty and worthiness that resides within you. Join us as we embark on a transformative journey of self-love and empowerment, where every breath reminds you of your innate goodness and the infinite capacity for love within your soul.

This is episode 1 of this week's 7-day meditation series, "The 5 Stages of Loving Compassion " 3128-3134.

THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: Loving-Kindness Quest:

Select a person to send unconditional loving kindness to all week. Fair warning: Be prepared to be ignored or shunned. Sharing loving kindness with someone difficult helps you to develop inner resilience.

A DIFFERENT MEDITATION TECHNIQUE EVERY DAY FOCUSED ON A WEEKLY THEME:

Get ready for an exciting journey with a new meditation technique every day, perfectly tailored to the week's theme! Infuse these powerful practices into the most stressful moments of your day to master difficult emotions. These dynamic techniques will help you tame the "monkey mind," keeping your thoughts from interrupting your meditation and bringing peace and focus to your life.

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**All of the information shared on this podcast is for your enjoyment only. Please don't consider the meditation techniques, herbal tea information, or other information shared by Mary Meckley or any of her guests as a replacement for any medical or psychological treatment. That being said, please enjoy any peace, energy, or clarity you may experience as you meditate.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 3,128 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meggley and I welcome you as you
0:11.6	begin a brand new meditation series this week.
0:15.0	And this week is by request.
0:19.0	Most of the themes that I share with you each week, we always follow a theme and we explore
0:26.8	meditation insight and different meditation techniques each day of a weekly theme.
0:34.0	Well, most of the themes come from you.
0:37.0	So this is a highly requested theme,
0:40.0	and I welcome you to this week's series where you will go on a journey of loving kindness.
0:50.0	And loving kindness
1:00.0	themes over the years as I've shared meditation with you and in this week's theme
1:08.0	what I thought I would do is guide you through the five stages of loving kindness. So let me explain what this
1:17.4	will mean for you. You are encouraged to every day this week focus on a particular aspect of loving kindness. So these
1:28.7	are the key components to develop loving kindness.
1:34.4	So you'll be guided through the five stages of loving kindness.
1:38.7	And we begin with the first stage, which is all about you. It's all about beginning your journey with
1:48.0	loving kindness for yourself and the reason you begin with yourself is because if you don't have
1:56.4	loving kindness for yourself is hard to give to others. So when you develop a sense of compassion for yourself, which includes
2:07.8	patience, caring, understanding, then you will share these qualities with others.
2:17.3	Whatever you cultivate within yourself, that's what you share with others.
2:22.1	It's not as though you walk around with bitterness
2:26.1	towards yourself and you're angry and then you meet someone and then you extend loving kindness, first of all they're likely going to notice your
2:38.9	negative energy without you even saying or doing anything if you're feeling those big negative emotions
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