Blissed Out

An exercise for experiencing pure bliss:

This is known as loving kindness meditation or metta meditation.

The first thing you need to do is get comfortable.  Come into a position lying down, seated, or standing.  You can close your eyes or leave them open.  Closed eyes may be easiest here because you’ll need to visualize people.

Begin the meditation by bringing into your focus someone you love dearly.  Speak to the person in your mind saying: May you be loved.  May you be healthy.  May you be happy.  This is next repeated with another person you love and maybe several others.  After blessing each person that comes into your mind for loving kindness (don’t forget to include yourself), move out to someone you don’t know as well – maybe a neighbor or someone who helped you recently at the store.  Say a loving kindness meditation for them:  May you be loved.  May you be healthy.  May you be happy.  Continue this blessing moving on next to anyone that may cause you pause in loving kindness.  If there’s a difficult situation, or a person that is harder for you to work with, send this blessing to them.  Give yourself space here to say the words several times and notice how it becomes easier with repetition.

You’ll close the meditation by working out to a broader sphere, encompassing your neighborhood, your community, sending the blessing to the country, and from there the world:  May you be loved.  May you be healthy.  May you be happy.