Hi everyone! I hope you are all well this week. I hope the ones of you who are dealing with that terrible weather are safe and warm indoors!
I found it so much easier to put my concentration into the subtle mind rather than the loving kindness. There was less talk going on and it was much more calming. I was able to clear my mind and breathe. I found it very beneficial. I think that I would recommend this to someone if they had issues with the loving kindness exercise. There are two types of people the ones who like the narration and the ones that dislike the narration and I definitely prefer peacefulness rather than someone talking through it! I really liked and had fun with this exercize where as I strongly disliked and felt like I was almost unable to do the last one.
It is necessary to have a connection not only with your body but also with your mind and feelings. If we don’t look to this connection we will be able to become ill and not know or understand the true reasons. We need to concentrate on every aspect of self to make sure that we are having a fully healthy self. In my own life I have been becoming more interconnected and discovering reasons for the health issues I have been experiencing. I was getting headaches and also feeling tired and run down all the time. So I began to focus more on me and began to let my little frustrations go and have now been much healthier!
Once again I hope you are all having a safe and happy week. I wish you all the best. TTYS! Sara
Hi Sara,
ReplyDeleteI hope you are having a great week too! You are such a positive person.
You are very right in your assertion that there are two types of people. You hit it exactly, I could not quite put it to words. I, prefer the narration, it soothes my busy mind. When it is too quiet I wander, I need the continous guidance. And as you said, some people just need the peace and quiet.
It is what makes the world function, many different types of people and personalities.
Take care,
Karin
Hello Sara, I also found the subtle mind exercise to be much more enjoyable. This could be a side effect of the nature of each exercise though. The loving kindness exercise may seem harder since it focuses our energy in a more outward direction which can be seen as less helpful to our somewhat selfish original mind set. This could be why they have put these exercises in the order of learning that we have seen in our text. The second exercise could only be fully effective by coming to terms with the exterior world in order to collect our own thoughts during the second exercise. This class is so exciting and I am glad to see that there are others out there who find it so interesting.
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