Week 2
Self-Care
Practice: Loving Kindness Meditation
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Rumi
This Week...
- (Walking meditation if poss.)
- STOP exercise
- Mindful eating exercise
- Formal v. informal practice
- What is loving kindness?
- Personal difficulty as a foundation for connection (tonglen)
- "Kindness" by Naomi Shihab Nye
- Practice: loving kindness meditation
- Check in/q&a
Practicing at Work and Home
- Continue bringing mindfulness to every day tasks.
- Formal practice 3x/week or ideally, daily.
- Informal practice: Three ways I could be kinder to myself.
