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It seems one of the major challenges our community has is in learning how to meditate.

It's one of the major questions I get is can you help me learn

to meditate? A lot of people get tripped up here because they can't think about nothing. And for

some reason, this is a misconception. People think they have to think about nothing. So for the next

few weeks, I'm going to help you meditate. I'm just going to meditate with you. If you follow along,

I'm going to teach you several different meditation techniques. Today I'm going to start with

a meditation called loving kindness meditation. Loving kindness meditation focuses on feelings of goodwill

and positive emotions while decreasing negative ones.

Research has shown that doing loving kindness meditation actually decreases symptoms of pain,

social prejudice, anger, anxiety, and even depression, and PTSD.

So before we get started, make sure you're sitting in a comfortable position.

Sit upright. Make sure your hands, feet, legs, back, everything's comfortable. If you need to put a cushion behind you, go ahead and do that.

Close your eyes.

Take two or three deep breaths.

Breathe in, and what I want you to do is feel your belly moving out. Take two or three deep breaths.

Breathe in and what I want you to do is feel your belly moving out as your breath goes

in.

This is called diaphragmatic breathing.

And as you breathe in, I want you to think about how long it takes you.

If you breathe in for a count of two, I want you to

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