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Meditate on Love
It may sound clichéd, but meditating on love and kindness can be one of the most fulfilling meditation practices. During meditation, we learn to actively cultivate love towards others and ourselves. Most people are born kind and good. The development of the ego and pride, as they grow older, is what impedes them from accomplishing positive actions and thinking lovingly about others. Our mind and heart is burdened with emotions, many of which are negative emotions like an inflated sense of pride, which leads to other destructive emotions like jealousy, hatred and anger. All of us experience these emotions towards others at some point in life. Sometimes we have an inner insight and are aware that what we are experiencing is damaging to ourselves and others but most often we don’t have control over what we are feeling and helpless to stop ourselves. Meditating on love can change this.
Cultivating emotions
It may see odd to you to read this heading. How does one cultivate emotions? After all, we’ve heard often enough about emotions getting better of one self. Isn’t cultivating emotions akin to controlling them? And is that possible? Even in the language we use to talk about emotions, like ‘falling in love’ or being ‘overcome by hatred’, one can sense the lack of control. Can you cultivate love towards someone?
The answer is yes. Emotions can be fashioned to be what you want them to be. If you bring more awareness into your feelings you will be able to control them. And the way to do to that is to meditate on love. When you meditate on love you can advance and cultivate the positive emotions that you would like to experience, like love, kindness, forgiveness and actively deter negative emotions that create conflicts with you and feelings of dislike, jealousy and anger towards others.
The love can be directed towards the people who we know and whom we love and cherish, towards mankind in general and also towards ourselves. This meditative practice helps to bring more harmony in our relationships with others and with ourselves. Meditating on love will help to strengthen your bonds with your loved ones, help your resolve your conflicts with people, attain closure about your feelings for your adversaries and most importantly help you deal with any ego-conflicts you may have within yourself. It will help you to be more empathetic towards others and transform you into a kinder and more considerate human being. You will learn to appreciate the positive qualities of others and focus lesser and lesser on their faults. Moreover, when you direct love towards yourself, it will help resolve any internal conflicts that may exist and you will learn to appreciate yourself more.
Meditation technique
Sit in a quiet room, in a comfortable posture. Close your eyes. Now take your awareness towards your feelings and emotions. Control your awareness and don’t let your emotions and wandering mind distract you away form the purpose of the exercise. Feel your breath going in through your nostrils, hold it for a few second and then exhale. Once you have established steady, rhythmic breathing, take your attention to your inner eye and focus on the point between your eyebrows.
Now with every breath you take imagine that you are receiving love, store that love in your heart as you retain your breath; let it touch every cell in your being; visualize it reaching out to someone you would like to send love to; imagine their heart being filled with love, their body and soul being drenched in love; finally exhale the compassion and visualize it radiating to everyone in the universe. With greater practice you will actually be able to feel yourself pulsating with overwhelming love. Cherish this moment for there is no greater truth nor joy than love.
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