Between election week and going back to work yesterday after an entire week off, I’m feeling annoyed, tired, and restless. Because I’m sure this week will continue to try my patience, I decided to start my day today with a little loving-kindness meditation I learned about from Celeste Headlee’s book We Need to Talk. Here’s hoping it’ll help me get in the right mindset to be a compassionate, helpful, and maybe even productive person today?
Step 1: Send compassionate thoughts to yourself.
Step 2: Send them to someone you love.
Step 3: Send them to a stranger.
Step 4: Send them to someone you dislike or with whom you are currently in conflict. (ahem, even if you avoid confrontation like me and maybe they don’t even know you’re conflict…)
Step 5. Finally, send compassionate thoughts to all living beings.
Life in the Ordinary 