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Brahma Viharas

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The Brahma Viharas are practices that help break our reactive habits by fostering loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. Please see the Brahma-Vihara Foundation for more complete explanations.

The four Brahma Viharas are listed here, along with phrases you can use during meditation, focusing on both others and yourself:

• Metta (loving-kindess: the practice of wishing one well)
  
  May you be healthy.
  May you be peaceful.
  May you be safe.
  May you be happy.

• Karuna (compassion)
  
  May you be free from suffering.
  Or: Your suffering matters to me.

• Mudita (sympathetic joy)
  
  I'm happy that you are happy.
  Or: May your happiness continue.

• Upekkha (equanimity)
  
  Things are the way they are.