Sunday, December 18, 2011
Unit 6
This was difficult to do. It tells me to close my eyes and make my mind quiet, yet I have to continue to read so there for can not close my eyes. So as I read, I tried to remember what to think about when I was able to close my eyes. I prefer to listen to a relaxation exercise, instead of reading it and trying to remember all that you are suppose to think about. I did have worldly pop into my mind. I let people get to me too much, like mean things that are said, and I need to not let negative words and drama affect me so much. I am getting better at loving kindness. I do still need to work on having more loving thoughts of people and myself. To improve all I can do is keep training my thoughts, and keep showing kindness to others!
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Hi, Mel.
ReplyDeleteI had some of the same problems with the Universal Loving Kindness exercise that you are describing. It occured to me (just now, actually) that a good way to practice this activity if you do better with listening to a tape would be to make a recording of yourself reading the phrases then play that recording on repeat. You could either have it in a continual loop (for however long you wanted to listen to it) or you could have pauses between the phrases so it was something of a listen-then-repeat activity. Either way, that would help with the difficulty and stress we both seem to have experienced when attempting to follow the directions to close our eyes AND somehow memorize the phrases to participate correctly in the activity.
Thank you for sharing your observations and experience!
-Joy Clark