This is a meditation will help you connect, regulate, repair, and soothe parts of yourself during difficult times. It includes principles from Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Metta (lovingkindness).
This talk explores core questions of lovingkindness practice: What is "metta"? What is its relevance in our lives and our world? How does it function to transform our hearts and world? And how do we strengthen metta?
Week One Homework:
1. Daily meditation: 15-20 minutes per day if new, normal amount if experienced.
2/3 appreciating & offering, 1/3 mindfulness (if you have practiced mindfulness)
2. Micro-practices: notice/recall feeling or offering kindness. Notice kindness between others.
The First Four Principles
~Settling Sit
~Teachings on Individualism and Community
~Teachings on the Six Principles of Cordiality
~Guided Meditation
(Bio break- not recorded)
~Lightly Guided Meditation: Generosity and Metta
~Teachings on Metta (Lovingkindness)
~Teachings on Generosity
~Lightly Guided Meditation
(Ritual - not recorded)
Metta: The Practice of Loving Kindness
2-hour practice period ('module'); includes instruction and guided and silent practice. One of four modules each day on the daily retreat theme, with Howard Cohn, Carla Brennan or Genevieve Tregor.
