A 20-minute loving-kindness practice to help us extend compassion to ourselves, those around us, and the larger world.

Mark Bertin writes, “In this compassion practice, there’s no aim to force anything to happen. You cannot will yourself into particular feelings toward yourself or anyone else. Rather, the practice is simply to remind yourself that you deserve happiness and ease—no more and no less than anyone else—and that the same goes for your child, your family, your friends, your neighbors, and everyone else in the world. Everyone is driven by an inner desire to avoid suffering and find a measure of peace.”

FULL STORY by MARK BERTIN, via MINDFUL.ORG