Episode #2: Lovingkindness Meditation

Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression

Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist

Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 882 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2016

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Lovingkindness is a great way to create more compassion and self care in your life.

I was recently lucky enough to attend and present at the Trichotillomania Learning Center Annual Conference in Dallas for those who suffer Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors. The conference was filled with a beautiful group people who struggle with hair pulling and skin picking, two disorders that are grossly misunderstood and stigmatized in our culture.

What struck me over the long weekend was the incredible love between the attendees. There were tears and laughter and hugs and love shared between so many people from all over the world. On the last day, I could see that most of the tears were coming from the fact that they most would leave their conference family, where they were accepted, and return back to their lives, where they feel so alone and were no longer fully understood.

I share this meditation in hope to create or continue an experience of love that that I felt so strongly during such a beautiful gathering. It is a loving kindness meditation that has helped me greatly when I feel alone or misunderstood and I hope it helps you also.

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0:00.0	Hi guys and welcome back. My name is Kimberly Quinlan and this is your Anxiety Toolkit
0:09.5	podcast.
0:15.0	I was recently lucky enough to attend and present at the Trichotillomania Learning Center
0:22.5	annual conference in Dallas for those who suffer body-focused repetitive behaviors.
0:28.6	The conference was filled with a beautiful group of people who struggled with hair pulling
0:33.2	or skin picking, two disorders that are grossly misunderstood and stigmatized in our culture.
0:40.3	What struck me over the long weekend was the incredible love between the attendees.
0:45.3	There were tears and laughter and hugs and love shared between so many people from all over the world.
0:53.3	On the last day, I could see that most of the tears were coming from the fact that most
0:58.2	would have to leave the conference family, where they were accepted, and returned back to
1:03.5	their lives where they feel so alone, and they were no longer fully understood.
1:08.8	I share this meditation in hope to create or continue an experience of
1:13.8	love that I felt so strongly during such a beautiful gathering. It is a loving kindness meditation
1:20.6	that has helped me greatly when I feel alone or missus understood and I hope it helps you also.
1:35.6	Enjoy. Loving kindness. or mrs understood and i hope it helps you also enjoy loving kindness meditation taking your usual posture for meditation feeling your body where it makes contact with the support beneath you and settling in, perhaps centering yourself by making the breath
1:47.5	the focus of your attention. Feeling the breath moving and the body sitting and when you are
1:55.2	ready, bringing to mind someone that is easy to feel a loving kindness towards, someone from the past or the presence,
2:04.3	perhaps a child or a pet, an easy, simple relationship may be best.
2:12.3	Allowing yourself to hold them in your awareness, perhaps seeing them in your mind's eye, or perhaps seeing a sense of them in your heart,
2:21.6	can you feel a sense of loving kindness towards them? As you hold in your awareness, begin to send
2:31.5	wishes of loving kindness to them.
2:37.4	Silently repeat these phrases.
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