Loving-Kindness Practice for #anxiety #relief and Hip Opening #subscribe
Channel: MindfulnessMystic
Date: 2023-06-05

Loving-kindness, or metta, is a Buddhist practice that involves sending love and compassion to ourselves and others. By cultivating feelings of kindness and empathy, we can reduce anxiety and promote healing in our bodies and minds. This meditation incorporates hip-opening yoga postures with loving-kindness visualization to help you release tension and connect with your inner compassion.

 Steps:
1. Begin by sitting in a comfortable cross-legged position, with your hands resting on your knees.
2. Take a few deep breaths and visualize a warm, golden light surrounding you.
3. As you inhale, imagine this light filling you with love and warmth, radiating from your heart and spreading throughout your body.
4. As you exhale, send this love and warmth out into the world, imagining it reaching everyone around you.
5. Shift into hip-opening postures like butterfly pose, reclining pigeon pose, and happy baby pose, focusing on the sensations in your hips and breathing deeply.
6. As you hold each pose, repeat a loving-kindness mantra to yourself, such as may I be happy, may I be healthy, may I be at peace.
7. After several minutes, return to a seated position and take a few moments to observe how you feel.