Loving-kindness

Loving-kindness meditation is a guided meditation in which you silently repeat kind wishes, such as ‘may you be well’, for yourself and then for others. It comes from Buddhist practice, where it is called metta bhavana: ‘metta’ means kindness and ‘bhavana’ means cultivation. There is some evidence it may build kindness towards yourself and others; for stress, anxiety and low mood the evidence is limited: see “Loving-kindness meditation: what the research says”.