If you're looking to cultivate more care and empathy in your life and strengthen the bonds of love you share with not only family and friends but expanding your circle of compassion to your wider community, then this session is for you. Session 25 marks one full year of OMOH meditation classes and to honor this journey our theme is, "Connecting through loving kindness". We examine the practice of metta or loving kindness meditation (LKM) and it's power in helping us connect with our selves and others. In the loving kindness meditation we cultivate compassion for ourselves, partners, friends, parents, little ones, neutral people, difficult people and all sentient beings on the planet. At the end of the session, Dustin Guinee shares his new poem, "Return to the Breath" which is a collection of insights Dustin has gleaned over the last year, living, teaching and practicing meditation and the reminder to return to the breath to become more mindful in every moment.

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