LovingKindness

The daily reflection is about practicing loving-kindness towards oneself and others. It suggests thinking of someone or something that brings positive feelings and imagining their presence. It asks questions about emotions and encourages creating a mental image of them. It then guides a visualization exercise to soften and release grief. Finally, it presents a quote to reflect on and encourages journaling. The aim is to make grief feel lighter and shared. Today's daily reflection is loving-kindness. Set the intention to practice loving-kindness toward yourself and others today. Notice how might loving-kindness be different than just kindness? How can you sprinkle an extra dose of love toward yourself? It can feel difficult and grief is heavy. Try to think of a person in your life that you love, respect, or have other positive emotions toward. Notice what happens in your body as you think of this person. If you are having a hard time identifying someone, try to imagine an animal or maybe a spiritual figure that evokes a positive feeling. What would this supportive figure look and be like? How close in proximity are they to you? Would they be beside you, behind you, or in front of you? What loving and kind message might this figure convey to you? Take a moment, close your eyes, and just notice. Emotion, how are you feeling today? If your grief were a color, what color is it today? If it were a shape, what shape is it? If your emotion had a temperature, cold, hot, lukewarm, what would it be? And if it had a texture, rough, smooth, scratchy, what would it be? Just take a moment to give some words or descriptions to your emotion today. As you've answered the above questions, imagine this image or color, temperature, texture, and shape that you have created in your mind. I want you to take a moment, put your right hand over your heart, feel the weight and the pressure of your hand on your chest. Now take your left hand and put it on the right side of the other side of your chest. If you're comfortable, close your eyes. I want you to imagine a stream of golden light shining into this shape, this color, this object that you have imagined. Imagine it circling, changing the temperature, softening the colors or even the edges of this object. Now imagine it is turning into a jello-like blob. Your grief is softening, loosening, changing. Take a deep breath in. When you are ready, slowly exhale, letting it out. And just notice how this image is changing and what your body feels like in this moment. To wrap up today's daily reflection, I want you to reflect on this quote. Come back, even as a shadow, even as a dream. Rip at ease. What does that quote mean to you? If you're writing in a journal, jot it down. Think about this today. And in this moment, let your grief feel a little bit lighter and shared. Thank you for listening.