Hello Class!
I found my overall experience to be very relaxing and was able to calm my mind. Though I will admit that the man's voice in the beginning was far from relaxing! Thank goodness a women's soothing voice soon took and talked me through the Loving Kindness exercise.
Without a doubt, this experience was very beneficial and was relevant to some specific situations currently happening in my life. I found the once held resentment I had for some certain individuals in my life slowly started disappear as the exercised continued. I started to feel nothing but love and kindness toward everyone in my life no matter if it's someone I love deeply or not on good terms with right now. After the exercise I felt calm, relaxed, and love in my heart. It truly was a great feeling!
Moreover, it's important not only to ensure we get a physical workout but to also a mental workout that will lead to a road of health, happiness, and wholeness. There are two practices that make up the mental workout such as showing loving-kindness and having the subtle mind. The first practice teaches up to open our hearts to everyone and the second one teaches how to have a mind that is calm - abiding, witnessing, and unity consciousness. The way I can implement mental workouts into my life is by following the Loving-Kindness exercise daily for at least 5 minutes and work my way up to 30 minutes. I find that each time I finish the exercise I have a completely different out look on life and on the people around me.
Teri :)
Huzzah for workouts! Both mental and physical! The whole meditation experience was pretty cool I thought too. It actually brought up some bad repressed memories. But doing it over a few times this week has really helped me mellow out a bit.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing!
Cassy
Teri,
ReplyDeleteI had a similar experience as you did when I was doing this exercise. I found myself thinking about a woman who I used to do business with. I would say that she is one of the only people in this world that I couldn't find one nice thing to say about her. That used to really bother me! After doing this exercise just the first time, I actually wanted to go see her. Right before I did the exercise, the night before actually, I found out some hard information about her and, when I did the exercise, all I wanted to do was reach out and try to comfort her in her pain. It was amazing to me!
I love this course!
Victoria