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A Meditation For Anxiety | Bonus Meditation with Leslie Booker

Jan 26, 2025

Dive into the world of meditation with a focus on self-compassion and community support. A loving-kindness meditation acts as a protective shield against anxiety, nurturing feelings of warmth and safety. Listeners are guided to visualize care extending beyond themselves, fostering a deeper connection to others. The conversation also touches on the power of Buddhist teachings in navigating challenges, encouraging a culture of belonging and understanding. Embrace inner peace with practices that resonate on a personal and communal level.

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The podcast emphasizes the importance of self-compassion through loving-kindness meditation as a means to enhance personal well-being and resilience.

Leslie Booker's guided meditation encourages participants to visualize community warmth, fostering emotional safety and deeper connections with others.

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Exploring Self-Compassion through Community

Fostering self-compassion is a key theme in the discussion, emphasizing its critical role in personal well-being. The guided meditation focuses on tapping into feelings of community to access self-compassion, led by instructor Leslie Booker. This practice involves visualizing an environment filled with warmth and kindness, which helps create a protective space for the individual. Engaging in this form of meditation serves not only to enhance personal resilience but also to strengthen connections with others, creating a network of care and support.

Exploring Community and Self-Compassion Through Meditation

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Embracing Loving Kindness: A Guided Meditation

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This loving-kindness meditation can serve as a protection from fear, guard against anxiety, & help you tap into support from your community.

About Leslie Booker:

Booker brings her heart and wisdom to the intersection of Dharma, Embodied Wisdom, and Liberation. Using this framework, she supports folks in creating a culture of belonging through her teaching and writing on changing the paradigm of self and community care. She shares her offering widely as a university lecturer, public speaker, and Buddhist philosophy and meditation teacher. She currently lives in Philadelphia with her partner and pup and is the Co-Guiding Teacher of New York Insight.

To find this meditation in the Happier Meditation app, you can search for “The Protection of Loving-Kindness.”

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