Loving-Kindness Meditation for Someone Difficult

A short guided loving-kindness meditation focused on extending goodwill toward someone who is challenging. This is the final and most demanding practice in the four-week sequence. The practice does not require approval of anyone's behavior or a lowering of personal boundaries. It offers an opportunity to release the burden of sustained resentment; that burden belongs to the practitioner, not the other person.

This meditation is part of a four-week compassion cultivation program developed for rehabilitation therapy professionals. No prior meditation experience is required.