There’s no wrong way to do metta or lovingkindness. Sometimes the practice of cultivating lovingkindness is simply to radiate love without words. Sometimes it’s to begin by holding yourself with kindness.

Lovingkindness can be an antidote to anxiety and fear. We become more gracious with the difficulties of life as we open the heart.

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This meditation was originally livestreamed by Spirit Rock on 7/25/22.

Guided Lovingkindness Meditation — Jack Kornfield

Margaret Atwood began writing poetry in high school, and the most thrilling moment of her writing career was the publication of her first poem: ‘I mean, all the other things that have happened since then were a thrill, but that was the biggest.’ She has gone on to publish 19 collections of poetry, as well as 14 novels – including 'The Handmaid’s Tale', 'The Blind Assassin' and 'MaddAddam', published last summer. Organised and methodical in writing fiction, she writes poetry ‘in a state of free float’, very often in hotel rooms or on planes. Her poems tend to begin with a cluster of words, around which they form – she has compared the process to ‘dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation’ – and sometimes they result in novels. In a conversation with Peter Kemp, Chief Fiction Reviewer of the Sunday Times, Atwood talks about how she believes that poetry and fiction use different parts of the brain, explains how poems can open doors into rooms which novels then enter and explore, and reads from her work.

We are grateful to the Canadian High Commission in the UK for hosting this event at Canada House. We are grateful to the TLS for supporting this event.

Margaret Atwood reads her poetry

If you're reading this, chances are that your life, or the life of someone you know, is shaped by pain—and by the physical and emotional suffering that usually accompany it.
Mindfulness of breathing—how to “put out the welcome mat” for whatever arises in one's experience
What to do about pain—how to work with intense and unwanted sensations
Working with thoughts and emotions—how to avoid identifying with your experience of pain and instead see sensations and thoughts as sensations and thoughts
Resting in awareness—a three-minute mindful pause to restore balance, resilience, and self-compassion
Mindfulness in everyday life—allowing the nitty-gritty of one's daily life to be both the ultimate meditation teacher and the real meditation practice

Mindfulness Meditation For Pain Relief Sample by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Summer Sublime - Dan Gibson

New Beginnings - Dan Gibson

Background, context, and poem text: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/05/28/keeping-quiet-sylvia-boorstein-reads-pablo-neruda

Excerpted from https://soundcloud.com/onbeing/what-we-nurture-with-sylvia

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Sylvia Boorstein reads "Keeping Quiet" by Pablo Neruda

This is a new concept I'm trying out; A poem within a poem. I think it offers an interesting dynamic. Hope you like it. 
Instrumental: "We're All Leaving" -Arcade Fire (From the "Her" Soundtrack)
Lyrics: 
In my dreams i lose the concept of time, its something that i don't really mind because its gonna take me a while to find out everything about you that i can, from the gentle touch of your hands to your toes in the sand of this beach devoid of reality, these brief moments that you've given me have brought me to the brink of insanity, but i simply don't care; your hair swaying with the wind, our beating hearts making up the only sound in between whispers that carry secrets too heavy to be heard aloud. 

You see, in my dreams every touch is gentle and warm, every kiss is filled with bliss, and every word that you say plays back in my head like the most beautiful song; and i struggle to hold on to the memories of the days where we laughed and played under the soft white bed sheets, the sweet smell of your perfume as you entered the room, those times where we would lay beside each other and smile as we stared at the moon, wondering if it was looking back at us and smiling too. 
In my dreams, forever never seems quite long enough. 
So if this is all the time we have, just don't wake me up. 
But in case you truly cant stay, ill leave you with a final poem:

"find me beneath the porcelain stars, amongst fragments of memories that define who we are,
touch me like a snowflake grazes a cheek, feel me like warm sand sinking under your feet,
And like lights that adorn the edges of streets, we touch the hearts of others as they pass through;
People will come in to our lives and eventually they'll leave, but what always remains...is how they changed you."
- Written and performed by Igor Oro

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"In My Dreams" - A Spoken Word Poem

When it comes to life, it's all about perspective. 

Written and performed by Igor Oro
Music Sample credit: "Do What You Are Doing", by Dexter Britain

LYRICS
One day I asked a blind man if he knew what colors were. He said, "Well, I've never seen them, but in my mind the colour yellow...feels like the warm rays of sunshine. The color green, I imagine, is what covers the soft carpet of grass in an empty meadow; the colour red must be the screech of sirens and horns, and I could have sworn that I felt the calm of blue in the waters of the Atlantic"

"You see, my friend", he added, "I may not have the gift of sight, but I am thankful to be spared the blackness that engulfs the world at night. Although I cannot distinguish dark from light, I can still tell wrong from right; I can hear hidden tones in music that most people cannot, I can dream of beauty from just the scent of a rose, I can feel the crisp droplets of rain on my skin, and unlike others, I can actually see the wind."

"Never feel bad for a blind man," he said finally; "for you see the world for what it is..while I see it for what it could be." 

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"Thoughts of a Blind Man" - Inspirational Spoken Word Poetry

1 hour of beautiful meditation music for relaxation and inner peace. 
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Zadkiel - Angel Elixir Prayers

Everything is energy. Thoughts and emotions are energies. Low frequency energy such as harsh unkind speech can be projected in the 3D Matrix deliberately or unconsciously. If you work in an aggressive environment then you may be prone to unknowingly and unconsciously receiving energies in your field that need to be cleared. Similarly, you may have been involved in a situation or relationship where energies of malice, spite and envy are deliberately projected towards you.

This transmission works to low frequency energies from the Collective Consciousness within the 3D Matrix that can come through a work or education environment, also from the many forms and channels of media now being broadcast. This transmission then also works to clear a specific individual or situation. The clearing works within the physical body and also within the auric field.

Goddess Kuan Yin. "She Who Hears the Prayers of the World", was originally the mother Goddess of China. She proved so popular She was adopted into the Buddhist pantheon as a Bodhisattva. Goddess Kwan Yin is known as a great healer who can cure all ills. Simply calling Her name in time of crisis is believed to grant deliverance.

Goddess Kuan Yin Transmission: Clearing Cruelty, Spite and Envy with Light and Compassion.

Please contact Jennie if you'd like a downloaded version (for free of course).

Sov Gott 2: En yoga Nidra för att komma till ro (utan gong)med Jennie Wadsten 31 Min (SWE)

As we face our fears, stress and anxiety due to the current pandemic. I have created this song in a deep meditation. Improvised in one take and recorded live in the moment. The vibration coming through was guided by the archangels  I hope that those who listen find this useful to release your fears and anxieties , allow the angels to take them away from you. Turn off your TV. Quite your mind. Slow your breath. Put on your headphones and listen deeply.

The light of angels

Rick Batyr- the light of angels

Throughout the quarantine, I've been playing and listening to a lot of instrumental music, especially just piano as it's always been something to help me find a moment of calm. 

I've also been thinking of the phrase 'one day at a time' a lot and felt it was an appropriate title for a little improvisation I recorded today. I hope you're all safe and hanging in there, and that this song brings you a bit of peace the way it does for me. - Steve

P.S. The artwork is from my first trip to California from the beginning of February, when things were quite a bit calmer.

Sylvia Boorstein reads "Keeping Quiet" by Pablo Neruda

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