Today I want to talk about meditation for compassion.

Everybody knows that meditation helps with all kinds of things ranging from greater attention span, less stress, and demonstrative health improvements including, blood pressure, sleep, and heart health. In the past 25 years or so, more and more scientific research has been conducted to answer empirically how meditation can have these great results.

One study in particular looked at how various styles of meditation have lasting results after meditation. In this study, they looked at a compassion meditation style and discovered that when meditators practiced a total of just 7 hours of compassion meditation, that it has a distinct and lasting benefit of feeling well-being for humankind. Not only will you increase your compassion and love for others but you will also improve your love of self also. Once I read about this study, I thought of how fantastic it would be to beef up my compassion levels and I’d create a Yoga Nidra for Compassion recording. In fact, it’s one of the tracks that I have on my Essential Yoga Nidra with Scott Moore Vol. 1. I wanted to offer this recording for free for anybody who was interested in exploring meditation for compassion. It’s about 30 minutes long and mixes Yoga Nidra with Loving Kindness meditation. I find it to be powerful and a lovely way to meditate.

If you felt so inspired, you could choose to practice this meditation every day for the next 14 days to get your 7 hours minimum of compassion meditation to start to see how your attitude toward others changes moving forward.

Enjoy!