Hi everyone,
Last week, I reported that I really struggled with listening and practicing the loving kindness mind state. My mind was like a run-away train and I could not WAIT for the recording to end.
This week while listening to the subtle mind recording, I found myself more willing to listen, and go through the process. It seemed that my patience lasted longer and I could actually visualize the mind chatter and not get pulled into its enticement as much as in the past. This experience encouraged me to go back and listen again to the lovingkindess recording.
I have a friend who died last week after several years of battling a cancerous brain tumor. I was not aware of how much his passing was weighing in on my subconscious mind until practicing the loving kindess recording. I finally had a sense of letting go and accepting his passing, while releasing fear, doubt, anger about why he had to die.
If you never gain control of your mind, you miss out on opportunities to access what is really going on within you. Why are you feeling anxious, experiencing emotions that end up affecting how you respond to your daily activities. It is important to not just want to exercise the physical portion of our body, but to exercise the mental state because carrying around negative thought patterns and emotions can eventually affect the workings of the physical body.
Hi Barbara,
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear about your friend. Loving kindness was design for that purpose to allow us to focus on others. It is not the feeling for the person but it allowed you the opportunity to face it and fix it through a meditation exercise, even had you go back and listen to it again. You were seeking the release as well as being in touch with your feelings.
This week's exercise was great for me. I enjoyed it. I listen to it twice because I did not recall my reaction from the first time last week so i did it again today. This one opened my eyes and gave me awareness of the need for mental wellness rather than just going through the motions. Changing lifestyle and habits require "stopping" to hear the chatter and recognize the mental activity.
Dru
Hey Barbara - sorry to hear about your friend and the negative emotions that it brought. I always think that the things I can control I will and the things I can't control I will let them go. However, this is easier said that done as to your point, the mind is filled with chatter. So how do we unclutter it. I think it is through breathing and focusing. Meditation does a person wonders too bad it is not taught at an early age....there might be less stress in this world.
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Loved ones are a mountain in each persons life, and it is hard to climb that mountain and get past it, especially if one looses the mountain itself. I am sorry to hear about your friend passing, and I can understand just how much weight that can put on a person. Keeping yourself calm and utilizing loving kindness can help you to remember the good times with that friend and allow them to still be in your life in both mind and spirit, even if they physically cannot be there anymore. When times get rough and all you can do is think of the negative things, meditate and focus and clear your mind and always remember the good times.
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