Month: April 2009

Meditation focusing on goodwill and sending love and compassion to all beings

Metta – loving kindness (lit. Pali)

This technique is a well-known Mahayana Buddhist practice. There are many metta meditations depending on what your particular intentions is. You may wish to send metta to your family, your fellow travellers, to world leaders, etc…

1. Sit in a chair with palms in the lap, right over the left.
2. Focus on goodwill and loving kindness toward yourself and as you inhale visualise the heart area as a lotus flower opening on the in breath. Feel compassion for yourself and gently feel the energy blooming in the heart centre.
3. As you exhale visualise compassion expanding from the heart as a beam of light. Send goodwill and loving kindness to all beings. This light expands in every direction throughout the whole universe benefiting all beings.
4. After a few minutes visualise the energy coming from the flower in the heart chakra as a silver mist. It spreads from the heart to every single cell in your body filling you with compassion and love.
5. Visualise this compassion expanding from your physical body outwards in all directions filling the whole universe benefiting all beings.

Concentrated Spiritual Energy

This is a technique where several practitioners work on one person. When using this technique treatments are generally performed over a shorter period of time than regular treatments due to the intensity of working together with other practitioners.

1. Gasshô* — to centre the mind and set intent.
2. Each practitioner places both hands on the body of the client.
3. The practitioners cover the main parts of the body and any imbalances. 
4. Gasshô — to give thanks.