Does gratitude shift your energy in a way that affects your outer world?

[steve]

1 hour ago, Annnon said:

is this loving-kindness practice?

 

I guess you could call it that.

I don’t really have a name for it.

I don’t generally do it as a formal practice, more when interacting with a person or when they come up in my mind for whatever reason.

 

I don’t really try to generate love or kindness, rather I connect with the sense of openness in my heart and mind, and let that person be there, and allow any reactivity coming up in me to fade. When it fades, what generally is left is a sense of openness, warmth or kindness which is less forced and more spontaneous.