Tag: compassion

Wouldn’t It Be Nice To Love More?

When I read about how people who had meditated for many years were able to experience increased love and compassion for virtually anyone, I thought: I’d like to have that experience.  So I decided to see if I could create a process that would enable others and me to achieve that very exciting goal without requiring the many years of meditation.  I developed a process that I tried with the 20 people in my last Advanced Lefkoe Freedom Course.  It was effective for most of them. Here is a description of exactly what we did.  Try this exercise yourself and [...]

You can have much more happiness than you realize

Most people are more interested in avoiding or relieving pain than in achieving and experiencing happiness. Thus most people go into psychotherapy or pursue “self-help” programs to overcome "problems"—such as changing some negative, undesirable behavior (e.g., procrastination or not taking action to further one's goals) or stopping some negative undesirable emotions (e.g., fear or depression). Far fewer people ask for help when they aren’t experiencing some obvious problem.  In other words, relatively few people strive to improve their lives when it already seems to be “working.” Much more is possible There’s nothing wrong with that approach.  I'd like to suggest, [...]

Would you like to feel unconditional love?

Would you like to experience more love and compassion for people and less judgment and criticism?  Most people would and lots of people have described how to do this: adopt a serious meditation program and after years and years of consistent practice, you probably will achieve your goal. I’ve written in the past about my ability to not only feel unconditional love for my wife Shelly and two daughters, but also for friends and associates.  And I have pretty much stopped judging and criticizing people.  Because I’ve never been a serious meditator, I was clear that meditation wasn’t the only [...]

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