Loving-Friendliness How is this practice nourished, and what stifles it in our daily lives?

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYSqojvbbE6_bZOwSJn5cNvCA26WAkVNLMP-CqegaQifI17GSWa4dKg0KcfgPY_UF8pQcuVIP6a1Bs_siYBvo7HzbX7LL7DSUPD-u57ciVhuqBydX5JvXipW72zLR4qCvczP6i1c84YiBr/s1600/WWWTHETENSTAGES.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYSqojvbbE6_bZOwSJn5cNvCA26WAkVNLMP-CqegaQifI17GSWa4dKg0KcfgPY_UF8pQcuVIP6a1Bs_siYBvo7HzbX7LL7DSUPD-u57ciVhuqBydX5JvXipW72zLR4qCvczP6i1c84YiBr/s320/WWWTHETENSTAGES.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Loving-Friendliness How is this practice nourished, and what stifles it in our daily lives? </span><div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Mindfulness meditation and relaxation help nurture this seed within us. On the other hand, loving-friendliness is hindered in its expression by rigid thoughts, judgments, and negativity.<br />Being kind to others follows naturally from cultivating love for ourselves.<br /><br />The eleven benefits derived from practicing loving-kindfulness including one's mind becomes calm immediately, neither fire nor poison nor weapon affect us, we become affectionate to human beings and non-human beings, one sleeps well, and one dies without confusion.<br /><br />Our exploration of loving-friendliness with  the challenges of listening, speaking, and working with kindfulness.<br /></span><blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">"It's the ultimate underlying principle behind all wholesome thoughts, words, and deeds. Kindfulness transcends barriers of religion, culture, geography, language, and nationality. Loving-friendliness is the reliable path to peace, to warm connection. It is a universal and ancient law that binds all of us together. We need it in order to live and work together harmoniously."</span></blockquote> <br /> <br /> The Ten Stages is a studied recovery course. It is a source of reconnection a method of unlearning and a reintroduction to our child within which leads us back to our one true intuitive voice.We start to learn and come out of our protective dysfunctional shell and reclaim our lives. www.thetenstages.com</div>

Loving-Friendliness How is this practice nourished, and what stifles it in our daily lives?

Loving-Friendliness How is this practice nourished, and what stifles it in our daily lives?  Mindfulness meditation and relaxation help n...

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