Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Unit 4 Assignment-Loving Kindness
I enjoyed the loving kindness exercise. I was relieved once the women started to narrate. I do not think I could relax with Dacher speaking. His voice is not exactly calming. I thought about my handicapped sister who has some addiction problems when it asked me to think of someone close that was in need of healing. It was a bit more difficult to think of a group of strangers since I kept giving them my friends faces. I see how this exercise is a mental workout since it took a lot of concentration to keep thinking of the subject matter for the period of time that was directed. I was getting really sleepy at the end. I really need to devote at least 20 minutes a day to the loving kindness exercise or something similar. I do not see how I could do an hour as the book suggested. I would definetly fall asleep then! Maybe it is something I need to work up to doing instead of trying for the hour right away.
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Merrel,
ReplyDeleteI agree with the womens voice being more pleasant to listen to. I find this greatly affects my concentration and ability to be able to connect with the meditation and what the speaker is asking us to do. I also find it very difficult to make a regular practice of a particular meditation every day. I tend to use one that seems to fit the emotions that I am dealing with at the time.
I was also relaxed but these do take practice !
Amy Lucid
Merrell,
ReplyDeleteI was also glad when Dacher stopped speaking and the woman came on board. Her voices was much more relaxing. I need to practice a great deal more with all that is going on in my life right now, it would help rid the stress if I could just get my mind to focus.
Sandi