Episode 42: Loving-Kindness | May you be free

Did you enjoy this guided meditation? Rate + Review + Share The Meditation Well.For more information on meditation, mindset, and mindful movement services Jess offers, visit www.yogastorynow.com.Thank you for meditating with me today!Meditation Script:Position your body in a way that is both relaxed and alert. Finda deep breath in, deep breath out. Observe your physical, mental, emotional,and spiritual space. Notice sensations in the body. Breathing in, bringattention to where you may be holding tension. Exhaling, let go, relax whateveryou can. Notice thoughts and emotions that arrive, making no value judgmentalon what thoughts or emotions arrive. Notice, breathe, and let them pass. Tuning into your highest self, that space within that holdspeace and joy and love, bring to mind someone in your life who is easy to love.Consider what it might look like for that person to feel free to acceptthemselves exactly as they are and free to change those things within thatcause harm to themselves or others. Imagine saying to that person, “May you be free.May you be free. May you be free.”Bring to mind someone for whom you hold neutral affection,little feeling one way or another, someone you don’t know well. Perhaps this isa person you passed by while walking or driving, a barista at a coffee shop, awaiter, cashier, or bank teller. Imagine saying to this person, “May you befree. May you be free. May you be free.”Bring to mind someone who is challenging to love or getalong with. Again, consider what it might look like were this person free toaccept themselves as they are, then to notice where they can shift to alleviateharm they cause to themselves or others. Imagine saying to this person, “Mayyou be free. May you be free. May you be free.”Imagine standing in front of a mirror. Recall moments where you have been achallenge or unkind. Recall moments where you have shown care and love. Observingwhere you’re at right now in body, mind, emotion, and spirit, breathe in,observe tension in the body, busyness of mind, heaviness of emotion, or any disconnectionfrom your spiritual self or higher calling. Breathing out, relax, allowingyourself to be at ease with where you are at in this moment. Consider foryourself what freedom would look like, freedom both to accept where you’re at,but also to shift from tension, mental or emotional stress, to feel connectedto something greater than yourself. Imagine looking in that mirror at yourselfand saying to yourself, “May you be free. May you be free. May you be free. Continue throughout your day with a great senseof freedom. Thank you for meditating with me. Peace.Written + Performed by Jessica Haessly