Do you want to feel happier in 2009?
January 8th 2009 20:37
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From: the BBC London
We keep being told what a difficult year it is going to be.
So 5 experts were asked what their recommendation for coping is.
They suggested - go to Church
-grow your own food
-get boxing, from one who obviously has his own ideas of exercise
-a 'potluck' supper, get a theme, say "Indian" and everyone brings along a dish
-send LOVE through meditation and this perhaps requires the most explanation:
Maitreyaraja, manager of the London Buddhist Centre, recommended learning metta bhadvana meditation as the best way to feel happier in 2009.
Feel the love spreading from your heart to your friends and enemies
"It is about helping individuals to cultivate positive emotion. In order to be happy, one needs to acknowledge the mental experiences one is experiencing but also to be able to cultivate mental states that are positive."
Metta bhavana means "the cultivation of loving kindness" in Pali and there are five stages, each of which lasts about five minutes for a beginner.
The first stage is to focus on yourself and feel "metta" or love for yourself. Imagine golden light flooding your body or repeat a phrase like "may I be well and happy" to yourself.
In the next stage, you try to transmit "metta" or love to a good friend, then a "neutral" acquaintance, then a person you dislike and then finally throughout your neighbourhood and the world.
"Have a sense of waves of loving-kindness spreading from your heart to everyone, to all beings everywhere. Then gradually relax out of meditation, and bring the practice to an end."
Feel the love spreading from your heart to your friends and enemies
"It is about helping individuals to cultivate positive emotion. In order to be happy, one needs to acknowledge the mental experiences one is experiencing but also to be able to cultivate mental states that are positive."
Metta bhavana means "the cultivation of loving kindness" in Pali and there are five stages, each of which lasts about five minutes for a beginner.
The first stage is to focus on yourself and feel "metta" or love for yourself. Imagine golden light flooding your body or repeat a phrase like "may I be well and happy" to yourself.
In the next stage, you try to transmit "metta" or love to a good friend, then a "neutral" acquaintance, then a person you dislike and then finally throughout your neighbourhood and the world.
"Have a sense of waves of loving-kindness spreading from your heart to everyone, to all beings everywhere. Then gradually relax out of meditation, and bring the practice to an end."
Friend and ENEMIES, mind, now that's a tough one, already.
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