Trauma Support Check-In: November 1st, 2019

Good morning my beautiful community! I hope everyone is having a happy Friday. Today I'd like to talk a little bit about loving kindness and how we can apply it to ourselves.

Loving kindness means to show tender and benevolent affection towards yourself and to others. Loving kindness meditation is a popular self-care technique that can be used to boost well-being and reduce stress. Those who regularly practice loving kindness meditation are able to increase their capacity for forgiveness, their connections to others, and self-accetance. During loving kindness meditation, you foucs kind and loving energy toward youself and others. You can expect to feel warm feelings of care and compassion while doing this.

This meditation technique is useful in the managment of social anxiety, marital conflict, anger, and coping with the strains of long-term care. Loving kindness meditation can enhance the activation of areas of the brain that are involved in emotional processing and empathy to boost a sense of positivity and reduce negativity. We can practice loving kindness by sitting with ourselves daily and allowing ourelves to fully be present in the moment and to feel nothing but love and kindess towards all!

I woud LOVE to know the following:

1. How do you feel about the practice of loving kindness?

2. Is there anything you are struggling with at the moment?

3. It's Friday! Do you have any plans for the weekend? What are they?

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