Universal Loving Kindness
This exercise was the perfect way to end a stressful day it helped me to release some of the tension that I had been feeling and allowed me to continue to continue working on giving off loving kindness. Although ten minutes seemed like a lengthy amount of time I stuck it out a really was glad that I did because ten minutes was the perfect amount of time to achieve a sense of calm an peacefulness. This exercise was kind of like an affirmation to me.
The second exercise was a little harder for me I had a bit of a hard time with this I know that I need to work on myself emotionally and my psychospirtual mind and I think that what we are learning is defiantly leading me on a right path but I still felt like this exercise was a little more difficult.
I have been regularly working on the loving kindness exercise and the subtle mind exercise and I think that these exercises are really helping me co with the stresses of my busy schedule, I also think that I am going to try to add the universal Loving kindness exercise as well.
Rachel,
ReplyDeleteI definitely feel that the universal loving-kindness exercise was a really effective way to release stress and increase positive energy. I agree that 10 minutes was a bit much, I think I only did it for about 5, but I still felt great afterwards. The second exercise was a bit difficult for me as well because I couldn't easily choose one aspect of my life. I did it multiple times focusing on a different aspect each time. I'm really glad that the loving-kindness and subtle mind work well for you!
Have a good week!
Samantha
You seem to catch on pretty quick to these exercises. I think they take a total of 10-15 minutes to complete, but from my experience, the hard part has been in getting to the place where I am performing the exercises effectively. Is this not an issue for you? It looks like the consensus with the class is that these have been huge stress relievers (like you said) and I would have to agree. I think a big part of the difficulty with the integral assessment that many of us are facing is that it requires honesty with ourselves and facing a terrible feeling of shame at times.
ReplyDeleteI struggled with the universal loving-kindness exercise. I guess I'm just not in the right frame of mind when I do it. I find it hard to relax because my schedule is so busy right now but I'm hoping that when it slows down I will be able to do these exercise effectively because I think I could really benefit from them as you all have.
ReplyDeleteBrooke W.