How Loving Kindness Saved my Life

What would I do without it?

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Loving kindness is a meditation and practice in mindfulness and Buddhist theory that wishes the best for another without self regard. It is a delightful practice and the mainstay of much of my life, but I had to learn about it.

I grew up without any loving kindness, informally, spontaneously or not, it just wasn’t present in my…