In alignment with Valentine’s Day, it feels appropriate to focus today on how we can all participate in the healing of our planet through Metta. We can send love and healing to our planet through a lovingkindness meditation in the same way we send blessings to ourselves and others. As Joan Borysenko states in Pocketful of Miracles, “Our precious planet is at a time of transition, a dark night in our collective soul when old structures are crumbling and new structures have yet to be born. This transition time is a moment of great danger if world consciousness is overtaken by fear, and great opportunity if the thought-form of love predominates. Practicing Metta for our world can help the birth of a more compassionate consciousness on earth.” By sending blessings to our planet and all her inhabitants, we are sending loving support for healing to our beautiful Mother Earth which loves, supports and sustains all of us.
As you begin the lovingkindness blessings, repeat the blessings for yourself and then include blessings for as many of your loved one(s) and those that are more difficult to love as you desire. Then, as Joan Borysenko suggests, imagine “our beautiful planet enveloped in light–the green continents, the blue water, the white polar caps. The two-leggeds and four-leggeds, the fish that swim and the bird that fly.”
As you imagine our earth and all her creatures, bless all with the following lovingkindness blessing:
May there be peace on earth, May the hearts of all people be open to themselves and to each other. May all people awaken to the light of their own true nature. May all creation be blessed and be a blessing to All That Is.
[Today's lovingkindness blessing and those posted on Soulful Sunday--Happy Valentine's Day! were taken from Pocketful of Miracles by Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.]
