One commences by visualising oneself seated in the midst of the clear blue sky.
It is important that one calls upon something beyond one’s self before commencing the practice: traditionally the Refuge Tree is quickly called up; more simply it could be Shakyamuni Buddha or one’s Yidam or or even a sense of the Order all around one... the Order here more in its transcendental aspect as the 1000 Armed Avalokitesvara
2. One cultivates a very powerful feeling of empathy with all beings, reflecting that one’s life is inextricably bound up with that of all other beings.
(If one finds the traditional reflections useful one can reflect that, during the beginningless cycles of rebirth, all beings will have been one's mother and father many times and will have cared for one with a mother's and afther's kindness.)
Also reflecting
- that all beings are essentially like oneself insofar as they desire happiness and dislike   suffering;
 - that all beings, oneself included, though desiring happiness, do evil and therefore experience suffering, again and again;
- like prisoners unable to escape from gaol, because of our own stupidity, we all revolve endlessly in samsara. What a pity!

 One reflects on the painful futility of this situation: making a strong resolve to lead all beings from this endless suffering, but realising that one can only help others fully by escaping from samsara oneself, one therefore resolves to Go for Refuge to the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha until one has attained complete liberation, taking all beings with one.
If it is helpful, one can call to mind someone one knows who is currently suffering. This is often more immediate and one can move from this to reflect that all beings      suffer.

 One then repeats as many times as  possible:
“With all beings, I go for refuge to the Three Jewels.”
Whilst one is repeating this, as one breathes out, one visualises that whatever wholesome roots are within one become like moonlight which shines out with one’s out breath, falling upon all beings, entering their bodies and conferring on them great      bliss.
As one breathes in, one sees the sins of all beings, like a black shadow, come out from their bodies and enter one’s own body, where they are purified by the strength of one’s aspiration and turned into pure white light.

 When the sins of all beings are completely purified and they are all filled with bliss, the Refuge Tree, or whichever image of Enlightenment one has evoked, dissolves into a blaze of light that diffuses into the blue  sky.
The blue sky fades away and one sits, absorbing the effects of the practice.

If one wishes one may conclude by expressing any spontaneous words of prayer or   dedication.