My understanding of the philosophy behind Loving Kindness practice is that it reconnects you to your diamond nature and to the diamond nature of all beings around you and it supports and strengthens the qualities of compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity, qualities important for our mindfulness practice and for the cultivation of self-love and self-care. The practice itself involves using phrases of well-wishing as a focus for your attention and offering these phrases to yourself and to people in your life, extending these phrases to all beings everywhere. There are many benefits to practising Loving Kindness such as an increase in positive emotions, life satisfaction, vagal tone (which is a physiological marker of wellbeing), grey matter in the areas of the brain associated with emotional regulation, social connection, and your ability to enter a relaxing and restorative state. It promotes resilience, slows biological aging, curbs self-criticism, decreases your bias towards others, alleviates emotional tension associated with chronic migraines, and activates and strengthens areas of the brain responsible for empathy and emotional intelligence.