The practice of LKM could reconnect African American women with their own needs and facilitate the freeing up of energy for self-care and the freeing up of space for more healthy relationships.

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LKM is a quiet, contemplative, mind-training practice used to cultivate positive emotions, such as friendliness, warmth, caring, joy, and compassion. Various techniques are used to arouse feelings of loving-kindness, including visualizing oneself or the person smiling or being joyous, reflecting on the person's positive qualities, and using brief mental phrases, or mantras, to cultivate positive emotions.

Loving-Kindness Meditation (LKM)

 Woods-Giscombé, C. L., & Black, A. R. (2010). Mind-body interventions to reduce risk for health disparities related to stress and strength among African American women: The potential of mindfulness-based stress reduction, loving-kindness, and the NTU therapeutic framework. Complementary health practice review, 15(3), 115-131.

Mind-body interventions to reduce risk for health disparities related to stress and strength among African American women: The potential of mindfulness-based stress reduction, loving-kindness, and the NTU

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