Buddhist Meditation Instructor, Regel Andaya is widely known for his works in Cebu Meditation for following his teachings on self-awareness and making people feel calm. Today, he will guide tigers in the love kindness meditation.

The 7 Benefits to the Love Kindness Meditations are:
1. Increase Positive Feelings and Decrease Negative Feelings
- These positive feelings can increase life satisfaction to getting more love, joy, happiness, and contentment even splendor in things around you.

2. Calms down the inner voice judging you and others
- Rather than beating yourself up or wishing ill on others, during your vulnerable time, it teaches you to be more compassionate of slowing down than using harsh words.

3. Increases empathy and Strengths Compassion
- In times of distress, especially emotional distress, it's a good time to slow down and practice training of self-love towards yourself and your community.

4. Chronic Pain Decreases
- Meditation is found to be effective for people that have chronic lower back pain and decreases the familiarity with anger, pain, and distress felt by the body. And it is a good progressive muscle relaxing activity to the body.

5. Aging Process is Slowing Down
- The marks of aging (telomeres) have shown that women have longer telomeres if they do meditation as a practice. Thus, looking ageless in the years to come with decreased stress.

6. Experience being connected with relationships with others
- The increase in positive emotions brings social connection and makes the subjective feeling of belonging and closeness with others possible.

7.  Decrease Tension and Migraine Pain
- After one session, a study shows the average pain goes down from 33%-44% for people suffering chronic migraines.

8. SO ODD BENEFIT FROM ACTIVITY:
- Giving a new experience to the body to relax, that's free, easy, and doable to practice every single day.

Enjoy meditating, tigers!

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