Open Hearts Build Lives: Positive Emotions, Induced Through Loving-Kindness Meditation, Build Consequential Personal Resources
Open Hearts Build Lives: Positive Emotions, Induced Through Loving-Kindness Meditation, Build Consequential Personal Resources is a journal article by Barbara L. Fredrickson, Michael A. Cohn, Kimberly A. Coffey, Jolynn Pek, Sandra M. Finkel (2008), published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. IX Coach's practice library cites it in 6 practices across 6 concepts; each one is listed below, so you can see exactly where this journal article is put to use.
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Practices on IX Coach that cite Open Hearts Build Lives
- Loving-kindness (metta) practice
Deliberately generate warm, benevolent feelings toward yourself and others — expanding your emotional baseline.
Building Positive Emotions, Made Practical
- Support the physiology of elevation through vagal tone practices
Build the physiological capacity for elevation through practices that strengthen vagal tone.
Elevation: The Emotion That Lifts You
- Choose phrases that actually resonate
The traditional phrases are a starting point — the right phrases are the ones that land in the body, not just the head.
Metta Bhavana: The Practice of Loving-Kindness
- Directed mudita meditation
Systematically send sympathetic joy to easy, neutral, and difficult targets — in that order.
Mudita: How to Cultivate Sympathetic Joy
- Use flash tonglen in the moment of encountering suffering
A single in-breath of someone’s pain and an out-breath of goodwill is a complete act of tonglen.
Tonglen: The Tibetan Practice of Taking and Sending
- Metta at the close — sharing merit and goodwill
End each sitting by radiating goodwill outward, softening any self-critical edge the practice surfaces.
Vipassana Meditation, Made Practical
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