5 Steps to Loving Kindness: Part 4

Practice actively opening your heart, by visualising others experiencing their true nature: the blue sky of happiness.

Having remembered our true nature  and that our experience is not exclusive, (step 3) we then take a leap of faith, by actively sending loving intentions to others so that they may too re-connect with their true nature.  (Whether we believe they will feel our intentions or not).

There are many ways to do this, both within the Buddhist tradition such as the Metta Bhavana meditation, as well non secular techniques, such as the Blue Sky of Happiness meditation described in the book The All Seeing Boy and the Blue Sky of Happiness  – described here.

However we practice, what’s important is that we begin with someone for whom we care.  This helps us more easily recognise the feeling of ‘metta’ the clear vibration of loving kindness – that liberating feeling of letting go, we experience when we give up our excessive self-scrutiny, or focusing on our intrusive thoughts and despair.

Thought for the day: Through sending loving intentions to others, our sense of isolation begins to dissolve, and sense of belonging blossoms.