How to Do the Loving Your Enemies Meditation

Video Transcript

CINDY MASTRY: Namaste. My name is Cindy Mastry, and in this clip Faith and I will be demonstrating the loving your enemies meditation. Studies have shown that when we hold anger particularly against someone in our body, then it transfers into disease. So in order to reduce the stress and reduce the incidents of disease, we come to the loving your enemies meditation. So Faith's just going to take a comfortable seated position somewhere where you can sit for three to five minutes, maybe more, and she's going to lengthen up through her spine, root her tailbone down, good, lifting through her chest, shoulder blades drawn down her back, crown of the head to the sky, allowing her eyes to soften close. Hands down, palms on her knees in the calming mudra. Good. She's just going to breathe. I'm just going to ask her to become aware of her breath, and then she's going to think of something that makes her really happy, someone she feels very close to, someone she loves, perhaps a husband, maybe a child, maybe a parent, and then she's just going to breathe with that energy. And then, she's going to begin to think of someone she's not so fond of, someone that's maybe wronged her, someone that she's not very happy with at the moment and she's going to try to see them and surround them in that same loving healing energy. Sometimes if that person has made you so angry and wronged you so much that you find it hard to do this, you can picture them as a child. It's easier to forgive a child than it is to forgive an adult. So, the loving your enemies meditation is designed so that you can hold your enemies in the light, learn to forgive them and release the toxins from carrying anger in your body.