Mudita is a Sanskrit word, sometimes translated as vicarious joy. With this guided meditation for happiness, we learn to connect with mudita, finding joy in life’s shared moments. With mudita, we are able to hook up with happiness any time we see it in others, thus sharing in joy as if it were our own.
Our typical response to the happiness of one other is one in every of jealousy or even perhaps anger. By reacting in this manner, we unnecessarily separate ourselves from joy, the very thing we wish we had! When we open our hearts and recognize that each one joy shared becomes our own, we start to experience more happiness each day, by learning to rejoice in the enjoyment of others.
In this meditation script for happiness, we first hook up with the sensation of joy by bringing to mind a past glad experience. Then, we imagine another person feeling the identical, to sense what it seems like in our bodies once we are glad for them.
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The Attitude of Gratitude
This exercise comes from the Buddhist practice of mudita, which suggests “appreciative joy.”
It might be understood as simply “showing up” for happiness with a caring presence.
As you train the mind to rejoice in happiness, you gain many advantages.
You feel more fulfilled by joy, recognize happiness more easily in your life, and train the mind to treat happiness as a vital experience.
Find a cushty posture and invite in rest from the start of your practice.
As you breathe, appreciate the life offered from each inhalation.
With the exhalation, let go of any tension within the mind or body.
Bring to mind a time through which you lately experienced happiness.
It could also be something small, like seeing a friend, watching the sunset, or the easy joy of lying down at night.
When you’ve gotten something, allow yourself to feel the experience of contentment.
With the intention of cultivating gratitude, offer yourself a couple of phrases of appreciative joy.
Keep the memory in your mind, and offer these phrases:
May my happiness proceed.
May my happiness grow
May I be present for the enjoyment.
May I appreciate the enjoyment in my life.
If your experience feels more like contentment or ease, you possibly can substitute the words that resonate with you.
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This happiness meditation script is helpful for anyone who’s fighting jealousy or the sensation that they aren’t getting enough of what they need most. It may introduce advanced practitioners to the concept of interdependence. This happiness meditation script is marked as intermediate, because it asks listeners to work with past memory to conjure up a selected feeling of their body, that of joy.
To use this meditation script for happiness, read it through several times. Get comfortable with the concept of mudita, and what it seems like in your body to share in one other’s happiness. When you’re able to guide others in meditation, it’s possible you’ll read this script word for word, or make edits to the wording as you see fit.
Share the meditation live in individual or group settings. You also can use this guided meditation for happiness to record audio of video meditations.
We all wish to be glad, to experience more joy in our lives. And yet, we incessantly disconnect ourselves from joy, by getting upset at the enjoyment of one other. With mindfulness, we are able to select a more skillful response, we are able to smile upon those that are smiling. In the method, we sense joy in our bodies and it becomes our own.
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