Here is one of my favorite meditations - from my book "The Spiritual Pathway"....
One of the most effective and wonderful ways to heal all your problems—whether they be relationship problems, health problems or financial problems—is to mediate on and contemplate Love. Meditating on Love is also a wonderful shortcut to experiencing the bliss of Pure Being.
Here is one suggestion of what to do:
Decide to dedicate 15-20 minutes to thinking about, contemplating and meditating on Love. Go somewhere where you can be alone and quiet and then just relax for a few moments. Close your eyes and then systemically turn over some of the following ideas in your mind. For example, what is Love, what does Love mean, what does Love do, how does Love feel, where does Love come from, what does Love look like, how does Love act, why is there Love?
To contemplate Love deeply and profoundly, it is wise to first read and ponder the thoughts of one of the Great Masters on Love. The thoughts of the Great Ones and their words and descriptions of Love are wonderful signposts that can trigger the ever-deepening realization of the miracle of Love in each of us.
For example the wonderful words of 1 Corinthians, Chapter 13 that so many of us know are an excellent way to start a meditation on Love is Kind. “…Love suffereth long, and is kind: love envieth not: love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things, Love never faileth…” Or read the wise words of the Dalai Lama on compassion… or any other text, which helps you to profoundly connect to the energy field of Love.
Once you get a strong sense of Love in your heart and feel its magic working in and through you, you can end your meditation by sending this energy out like healing balm into the various areas of your life. For example, let the healing balm of Love descend and caress your loved one and closest relationships. See how this divine energy softens, soothes and heals all troubles and banishes all dismay. Send Love to your friends, to your workplace, to your distant relatives, to your business associates, and to other so-called trouble spots on Earth. Each time you send this energy out to someone, you will feel how the miracle of Love is acting as a softening agent, immediately melting hardness, anger, criticism and despair. Always this Love energy brings a feeling of kindness to every situation and a renewed sense of hope. This is because Love is kind.
Allow yourself once again to contemplate what Love is kind means and feels like in all the areas of your life. There is no more effective healing than this. Even in terms of your physical body. Send the kindness of Love to any area of your body where there is distress or pain and let the kindness of Love do its healing work in you. If you contemplate the depths and wonders of Love on a regular basis, there will be no end to the wonders you will experience. Because indeed…
Love is kind.
This is the blessing of Love.
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