Uploaded December 2019 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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“Feel yourself sitting here. Feel yourself surrounded by all these people. Feel yourself, I hope, happy and content.” Spend two minutes on a lovingkindness meditation with Spirit Rock teacher Sylvia Boorstein.

This meditation originally appeared as a part of Sylvia Boorstein's conversation with Krista, “What We Nurture,” which originally aired May 5, 2011.
—Listen on YouTube: youtu.be/eHi3gqpKd7Q
—Listen at On Being onbeing.org/programs/sylvia-boorstein-what-we-nurture

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