Welcome to the Meditation Podcast. This is Jesse Stern with episode 138.

Meditation on Self-Love. The language we use in our internal dialogue has a profound effect on our experience.

This includes non-verbal communication, such as images or feelings we invoke.

When we reflect on our self-talk and self-invoked feelings,

we gain clarity on the ways in which we influence our experience in the world, in community,

and in our daily lives. In today's meditation, we meditate on self-love. Remember that this

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Now, let's begin. Begin seated or lying down.

Allow your eyes to drift closed and begin to turn your attention inward. Place your hands on your knees or thighs, palms down.

Feel your hands touching your legs and your legs touching your hands.

The exchange of energy in the form of warmth.

Notice the rhythm of your breathing. And in this meditation on self-love,

consider times that you have acted in a way that is loving,

accepting and kind to yourself.

And if any specific moments, thoughts or images, present themselves to you, observe them. Observe them. Notice how they take root as physical sensation in your body.

And call to mind any moments where you have been unloving, unaccepting, or unkind to yourself. and observe how this manifest as a physical sensation in your body. Ask yourself if you have been

kind, loving, and accepting, or unkind, unloving and unaccepting, toward someone else.

The way we treat others is a metaphor or a window into how we treat ourselves, and vice versa. The way we treat ourselves and vice versa.

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