In practicing the universal loving-kindness meditation, I found myself coming out of it in a pleasant state-of-mind. Extending loving-kindness to all others made me feel very humbled as one small piece in this huge world yet empowered to make a positive impact. The simplicity and briefness of this meditation is my favorite part.
The integral assessment was one that I know I need much further work on. To delve deeply into myself and discover the aspects of my health that need work, I’ll need to spend a lot more time meditating. Right away, I felt that my psychospiritual health needs quite a bit of work and so this is where I am going to begin. I think the two exercises that would help me improve the development of my psychospiritual health would be the Subtle Mind exercise and the universal Loving-Kindness exercise.
I agree, that we should meditate more because it gives us a time to focus on the things in our lives that need changing, finding ways to change them, etc. I really enjoyed the two exercises in this unit because I needed to find the aspects in my life that needed a little working on.
ReplyDeleteI also feel that incorporating loving-kindness into our everyday lives will help us feel better about ourselves as well as make those around us feel happy and better about themselves. I feel that the integral assessment is the one that I need to focus on because it is a bit more challenging however I am up for the challenge. I feel that I need to bring my psychospiritual healing to the next level.
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I agree with you about the meditation of the assignment. To me it felt more like a prayer than a meditation, but was very relaxing. I too am lacking in the psychospiritual area as well. I tend to focus on others so I do not have to think about how unhappy I am. I will need to learn how to defeat that self-doubt and learn to grow from it.
ReplyDeleteI greatly admire you for saying that it is comforting to know that you distilled at least some bit of compassion. I still find myself struggling, but can learn to incorporate this exercise into my daily life. It does feel good to know that you've sent out a little thought of positivity... for example like when you are witness to an automobile acident... you think hopeful thoughts for them, right? Take care and keep up on the great work!
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