Hello all,
I have to say that I have been having mixed feelings when completing these exercises. I did not have much success with the Loving Kindness exercise, but I really enjoyed the Subtle Mind exercise. I am not sure if the difference was because that with the Subtle Mind exercise I was able to focus on myself or because the Loving Kindness exercise had me focusing partially on someone else and I kept changing the person I was supposed to be focusing on which made it hard to focus. I also had many distractions when trying to complete the Loving Kindness exercise. I did not have the same distractions this week. I will definitely continue to utilize the Subtle Mind exercise, but I am not sure that I will attempt the Loving Kindness any time soon. I look forward to reading about everyone else's experiences.
Stephanie
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I am glad this week's exercise worked out well for you. How were you distractions different this week? It seems I run into the same ones all the time which is resulting in me creating a meditation area in my house.
ReplyDeleteI have yet to be able to complete a full exercise but I got so much more out of this one. It was more relaxing. I was able to just let go. Believe me I needed that. I feel like I learn exactly what I should and I get exactly what I need through the exercises each week. The Subtle Mind exercise allowed me to be the most focused and yet focused on nothing but pure relaxation.
ReplyDeleteI find myself having some of these same feelings. I did not have as much success with the loving kindness exercise the times I did it but that could be, like you said that I kept changing the person I was thinking of and got very confused on what I was really supposed to be doing. It was easier for me in this exercise to focus on all of the thoughts that were going through my mind and I did find that I had the witnessing mind going on as I was able to seperate out some thoughts - which is what I think I was supposed to do but calm-abiding mind is a tricky thing, who can let their mind do nothing!! Not me yet I guess!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the post,
Megan
Reading your blog was like reading my own mind. I did not trouble initially with the exercise, I was taught to extend loving kindness and forgiveness to others while growing up by my parents, so that part of it was easy, but I too found it to be distracting because the focus kept changing. I think I can honestly say I wasn't fond of this particular exercise. May it get better from here out.
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