Loving Kindness

Loving kindness meditation is a technique that focuses on the quality of compassion rather than on an object or action. Variations include inwardly speaking positive affirmations that wish security, safety, contentment, and health for oneself and others. The text provides an example from Vera Kaltwasser's book on mindfulness in teaching, with specific phrases for self and others wishing safety, freedom from distress, happiness, health, and well-being.

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Abstract

Loving KindnessThe meditation of loving kindness is a technique in which we focus on a quality, namely that of compassion, rather than on an object or an action.There are many different variations.For example, we can inwardly speak positive affirmations, in which we wish for security, safety, contentment, health, etc. for ourselves and others.In class we have used an example from the book Persnlichkeit und Prsenz.Achtsamkeit im Lehrerberuf [Personality and Presence.Mindfulness in the teaching profession] by the mindfulness trainer Vera Kaltwasser:For me personally May I be safe and secure and free from internal and external distress.May I be happy and content.May I be healthy and whole.May I experience the ease of well-being.For other people May this person be safe and secure and free from internal and external distress.