Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Loving Kindness Exercise
I found the loving kindness exercise a little difficult for me to focus on, but I did like it. I pictured my 4 year old son and all of the love that I have for him, sometimes I feel like I could burst with how much love I feel for that little boy :) Turning the love toward myself was more difficult, I could imagine doing it, but feeling that amount of love for myself was not a doable thing for me. I then pictured my mom, who suffers from fibromyalgia and has a lot of aching and pain pretty much constantly. I pictured her suffering as a black cloud of smoke that I inhaled into my own body and then dissolved into little grains of sand in my heart, then exhaled a white cloud of loving kindness and healing that surrounded her and as it surrounded her she looked stronger and happier.Imagining doing the same for strangers was more difficult for me, and that is something that I know about myself and would like to work past; feeling more compassion for people that I don't have a relationship with. While I found parts of this exercise to be difficult I would recommend it to others, it isn't meant to be easy, it is meant to be an exercise to better oneself. Mental workouts like these are meant to help us train our minds and reach deeper levels of our minds and lives that are otherwise underdeveloped.
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The way you utilized the loving-kindness exercise is really interesting. I know that that is how the narrator described the exercise to be to think about a family member who is currently suffering and turn it into loving kindness. But, that is not how I interpreted the exercise at all. How I took the exercise in was a guide to teach us to deal with adversities in life more positively. When I did the exercise, I thought about the problems that are occurring to my life and any possible negativity that could arise in the future, and then I reevaluated the problems and learn to accept them. Or another way I thought it could be taken as is with enemies we might have, or people with negative emotions towards us. Instead of returning the negative emotions, we should just let it go and provide them loving-kindness instead.
ReplyDeleteI had difficult with the love and myself also Heidi. It was easy for me to picture doing things and loving others, but without the music and ocean. I find that I think a lot better in silence which is why these exercises are a bit difficult for me to try to gather completely.
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