Imagery Exercise: Descend to Love

 Frequency: Repeat as needed when feeling blue.

• Close your eyes and breathe out slowly, a long, exhalation, followed by a normal inhalation.
• Descend into the deepest layers of self and find there the foundational layer of love upon which all the sadness and suffering rests.
• Breathe out one time. Know this love is shared by everyone in the world, just as is the suffering.
• Sense and feel this love absorbing and removing the sadness, suffering, and pain.
• Breathe out and open your eyes.