This is a loving kindness meditation. You can use this to radiate love and kindness out to those who need it, as well as developing your self-love.

Daily use of loving kindness meditation increases positive emotions within yourself, specifically: love, joy, contentment, gratitude, and hope, while reducing anxiety, worry and depressive symptoms. It helps to decrease chronic pain, migraines and trauma (PTSD) symptoms, while improving empathy, emotional processing and emotion regulation.

Just 10 minutes of loving kindness meditation has an immediate relaxing effect and slows biological aging.

It also has some social benefits, like increased social connection, empathy, compassion and helpfulness, as well as reduce bias towards others and reduced self-criticism.

So, it is well worth engaging at least once per day in loving ki ...