For five minutes at the beginning of your day, and five minutes toward the end, sit quietly in a quiet place. With eyes closed, imagine that a radiant light extends from your heart, outward to fill the room. Then imagine that the people in your life walk into the room one by one, then on their way into their own respective lives.

Throughout the day, whenever you are able, upon encountering another individual, stranger or not, silently and briefly bring awareness to your heart and imagine that its radiance extends outward to encompass them.

Melanie Hack
Author of Who Killed My Sister, My friend
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