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    Loving-Kindness Meditation: How to create more joy, hope and love in your life
    Loving-Kindness Meditation: How to create more joy, hope and love in your life
    Loving-Kindness Meditation: How to create more joy, hope and love in your life
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    Loving-Kindness Meditation: How to create more joy, hope and love in your life

    By Fredrik Andersson

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    You will learn how to practice Loving-Kindness Meditation, which is an old meditation practice that originates from the Buddha. It is a method to develop compassion towards yourself and others.
    In the last decade or two, there has been an enormous amount of scientific research in the meditation area, and one area that has been focused on is the Loving-Kindness Meditation.
    Research has shown that practicing Loving-Kindness Meditation brings you a lot of benefits, for example you:
    * Feel more positive emotions, like joy, hope and love
    * Feel more purpose in life
    * Have higher self-acceptance
    * Have less illness-symptoms
    * Are more satisfied with your life

    Download the book now to learn how to get these benefits in your own life!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFredrik Andersson
    Release dateDec 7, 2015
    ISBN9781311927699
    Loving-Kindness Meditation: How to create more joy, hope and love in your life

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      Loving-Kindness Meditation - Fredrik Andersson

      Loving-Kindness Meditation

      How to create more joy, hope and love in your life

      Fredrik Andersson

      Copyright ©2015 Fredrik Andersson. All rights reserved. Including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof, in any form. No part of this text may be reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the author.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Benefits of Loving-Kindness Meditation

      How to practice Loving-Kindness Meditation

      Final words

      Introduction

      Loving-Kindness Meditation, or Mettā meditation, is an ancient meditation form taught by Buddha

      to develop the mental habit of selfless or altruistic love.

      Buddha said:

      Hatred cannot coexist with loving-kindness, and dissipates if supplanted with thoughts based on loving-kindness.

      There is now an collaboration between the science community and Buddhist monks and this research has proven the great benefits of practicing Loving-Kindness Meditation and how it contributes to our well-being.

      In this book you will learn about the many benefits Loving-Kindness Meditation has on our well-being according

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