Loving kindness is the simple aspiration to be happy. It includes wishing for our own happiness, as well as the happiness of others. But it's more than a wish - it’s the confidence that we can actually be happy - that we deserve to be happy - and it involves an active participation in that process.

But true happiness is different than the temporary happiness we might feel when something goes our way. True happiness not dependent on outer circumstances. It comes from within-- it comes from loving ourselves. But before we can experience it, we have to learn to recognize it. Can you identify moments in your life when you were happy for no good reason? This recognition of what makes us truly happy is the beginning of loving kindness. When we can extend loving kindness to ourselves, it is the birth of self-love.

Before we can get there, we have to get HERE.

Watch or listen to this guided meditation to learn a simple technique to do that.