"Regular mindfulness practice has been linked to many positive health benefits, including reduced stress and anxiety, better sleep and quicker healing after injury and illness. Mindfulness can help us to be present in a distracted world and to feel more at home in our bodies, and in our lives. There are many different types of meditation. Some mindfulness practices ask meditators simply to sit with whatever thoughts, sensations or emotions arise without immediately reacting to them."
"Other meditations ask practitioners to deliberately focus on one emotion - for example, gratitude or love - to deepen the experience of that emotion. The purpose behind this type of meditation is to bring more gratitude, or more love, into one's life. The more people meditate on love, the easier it is to experience this emotion even when not meditating. One such meditation is known as "metta," or loving-kindness."
Mindfulness meditation delivers multiple health benefits, including reduced stress and anxiety, improved sleep, and faster healing after injury or illness. Different meditation approaches include open awareness practices that encourage sitting with arising thoughts, sensations, and emotions without reacting, thereby building focus and flexible responses. Other practices concentrate deliberately on a single emotion, such as gratitude or love, to amplify that feeling in daily life. Loving-kindness (metta) cultivates unconditional, universal compassion distinct from romantic love. Metta is practiced within Buddhist traditions and in secular forms; it is accessible to anyone wishing to live more lovingly. In Pali, metta's root meaning includes "gentle," like nourishing spring rain.
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