Welcome to Day 2!
Goal: Send 2 Goodwill Wishes
Our challenge is based on Loving Kindness Meditation. We are taking a simplified approach. Offer your thoughts of Health + Happiness on the run, standing in line, sitting at your desk, during meditation, as a prayer, etc. Do what works for you!
Check out this great conversation between Dan Harris and Sharon Salzberg providing a better understanding of our challenge and practicing Loving Kindness. Learn about the scientific and experience based benefits. They even state, “It can make you healthier and happier.” It’s less than 7 minutes and well worth it!
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Got Questions or suggestions to help others? Contact me or type a Comment below!!! Let’s Inspire Health + Happiness Around the World this December.
So love this video. I bought the book after watching the video and it’s life changing! Thank you for introducing it to me, Meg Poe!
Hi Lindsley,
You are very welcome. A little loving kindness goes a long way.
A day filled with goodness to you!
meg
One of the things that struck me when I read this yesterday is that, in addition to incorporating Mindfulness principles, this practice also seems to incorporate Pray without Ceasing. And when you meld the two, it defines the prayer to incorporate others. So this morning, as I was driving back through town from dropping Xavier off at the frame shop, I started saying as I saw pedestrians crossing the street “May you safely reach the other side.” And when I did that, I felt myself somehow connecting with that person, and being somehow vested in their safety.
It seems if you bring Pray Without Ceasing, something I’ve been trying to do for years (not all that successfully!) to Mindfulness of others, an awareness of and being vested in others’ welfare would become a part of every breathing moment. An interesting thought.
Mary,
Thank you for sharing your story.
Prayer Without Ceasing + Mindfulness of others = Awareness of and being vested in others’ welfare with every breath
Sounds like a recipe to change the world.
May we all safely reach the other side,
meg
Meg, I loved this! Think of the big picture..
Thanks for sharing this
Hi Donella,
YAY! Thank you for the note and happy you enjoyed. I think it’s the best. Makes it all simple. And yes, “Think of the big picture.”
May your day be filled with joy!
meg