Meditation Story for Love, Friendship, and Connection

In Meditation for Love, Compassion, and Connection, two meditation techniques—loving-kindness and guided imagery—have been combined to create a relaxing meditation story that is easy to follow along with and that also cultivates the listener’s capacity for love, compassion, and connection. Guided imagery is known to be one of the easiest meditation techniques for beginners and basically makes the meditation like a story that you take part in yourself. Loving-kindness can help develop self-esteem and love and compassion for both yourself and others, which improves and strengthens all kinds of relationships. Studies have also shown that loving-kindness meditation increases pleasant emotions such as joy, contentment, gratitude, and hope and that practicing loving-kindness for 20 minutes per day 3 times per week leads to measurable positive physical effects in only a few weeks.

This meditation story starts with a short wind-down section to make it simpler to imagine being in a safe and beautiful place once the guided imagery section begins. In this beautiful and safe place, the listener will imagine meeting people they know to varying degrees—first, someone they know well and care about, and then gradually focusing on people they know less and less. The first person will introduce the listener to the four traditional well-wishes that characterize a loving-kindness meditation, which the listener will then say to everyone they meet. This meditation is different from shorter loving-kindness meditations, which don’t have a guided imagery element, because it includes a section that focuses on creating a deep sense of connection with each person before the listener extends their well-wishes to them.

Sophie Påhlsson, the person behind Sophie Grace Meditations, is a Swedish meditation instructor from the southwestern part of the country. She started writing guided meditations for personal use because she found that the market in Sweden lacked the content she wanted to listen to, like guided imagery meditations and relaxation exercises without excess information that you can use time and time again. Since Sophie Grace Meditations released her first products, they have collectively been streamed and bought over one million times. Titles in English and Swedish are always narrated by Påhlsson herself. When titles are released in other languages, a professional voiceover artist lends her voice to the Sophie Grace Meditations brand.

© 2023 Plotline Books (오디오북 ): 9789189073371

번역자 : Sophie Påhlsson

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