Hello class,
After I reviewed the practices we all took part in over the progression of this class, I decided that meditation and loving kindness were the two I felt most beneficial. I had actually incorporated all of them into one progressing session, but after doing this for a week or so I started to feel that I enjoyed and felt more of a response from the act of meditating while including the loving kindness exercise. It is important for me to remember these exercises while engaging in my daily life and routine, I sometimes witness myself becoming agitated or irritated with others around me. When this happens I have to center my focus momentarily on those feelings and replace them with compassion, love, and patience. I then purposefully send my light and good energy toward that person in a subtle practice of meditation. This all may take only a minute at best but I have seen huge results. I find that if I add this practice in everything I am doing that I feel like the world around me becomes brighter, the people in my life and the strangers around me seem more at ease and in comfort. This is a testament to the power of meditation and loving kindness and how easily and profoundly it can change the world we live in.
-Stacey Smith
Stacey,
ReplyDeleteThis is also a testament to you! You have begun the change not only within yourself, but within others that you touch every day. I commend you for that. I also love the way that you chose to incorporate loving kindness into meditation. I think that may work for a lot of people, including myself. In a way, I've practiced loving kindness for many years within the scope of my job in healthcare. At the very least, I love leaving someone with a smile and to know, for the time we were together, that someone cared.
~Roz
Stacey,
ReplyDeleteI can relate when I recognize that I am becoming agitated with others, I have begun to practice patience and loving kindness which seems to slowly release the tension. I like how you said "you send your light and good energy toward that person" I am going to try that!! Great job on this post very interesting.
Thanks,
Ali
I like the meditation and visualize most of all but at the same time I do like the loving kindness meditation as well. I also find myself doing the love kindness meditation while I am at work during breaks. I close my eyes and think about my Grandmother, my daughter and my Dad. I reach out to each of them each day and believe that they are all doing better in whatever they are doing. Sending some of my positive energy fed from love to all three of and receiving their positive energy and love as well; this was something I have done for a while and just realized what it was called.
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