Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Unit 8: visualization and loving kindness
My two favorite meditation times was the visualization practice, also called a taste of human flourishing, and the loving kindess meditation. After all the cd's that we had been doing this term, it was interesting to participate with the visualization without the music or ocean waves. I had to focus a bit more, but once I could visualize my time of great happiness, which was was being my dad's little nurse when I was a kid, he was a veterinarian, truly happy moments throughout my life. The second part of wholeness and connectedness was raising my babies and watching them grow up, and the third section was the radiant health and exuberant vitality, was when we won the Division championship and we only had seven girls on the basketball team, I really enjoyed this practice as it is focused on positive times and good feelings. The loving kindness meditation was one of the first ones we participated with this term and I enjoyed it, thinking about anything that keeps my mind heading toward positive and loving results is relaxing and very motivating for me. It keeps me focused on why I'm here on earth and keeps me grounded and sound.
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Hello Kelsy, I also found the loving kindness exercise beneficial. I think it hit home because this is what a mother does all the time. We practice loving kindness and also taking on all of the worries and hurts of our children in order to help them have positive energy. However, I never realized that my thought process at the time was called loving kindness. It appears as though what you are doing is working so keep up the good work!
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Good Evening.
ReplyDeleteI too enjoyed the "Visualation" and the "Loving Kindess" meditation. The music and the ocean waves really helped me to relax and like you, participating int he meditation practice without the music or ocean waves was nice. Of course we had to focus more, that was the whole idea, to train our minds to focus more without the music and the ocean waves. You are very blessed to able to have children to raise, I do not have any of my own and do love children very much. I can see the happiness in others who have children to raise. The exercises have definitely helped me to relax more nowadays, especially practicing the "Loving Kindness" meditation exercise. Have a nice evening Kelsey.
Anthony