Mental Workout
It is possible for us to evolve our Psychospiritual life and access its capacities and resources with daily contemplative practice. The value of obtaining this level of understanding and insight is a new level of consciousness. Learning to calm and train the mind, open your heart, and expand your consciousness can provide healing capacities.
Loving Kindness Practice: An inner practice whose goal is to create a heartfelt loving kindness that diminishes your self-centeredness and quiets the mind.
The Subtle Mind Practice: Using the breath, we learn how to tame and stabilize the mind by developing a witnessing consciousness. As witnessing replaces grasping and clinging, we progressively experience calm abiding, and calm-abiding gradually evolves into unity consciousness.
~~Excerpt from Integral Health: The Path to Human Flourishing by Elliot Dasher.
My Experience with the Loving Kindness practice was one of great pleasure. I have used many guided meditation on and off for years without any real dedication to the practice until more recent. Due to circumstances in my life I had found myself in a place of questioning and searching for answers. As often happens, I was led to read and meditate to find answers. I was given a book called The Dance by Oriah Mountain Dreamer, which offered me answers and direction.
"What if the question is not why am I so infrequently the person I really want to be, but why do I so infrequently want to be the person I really am?" ~~The Dance
Through reading and practicing the daily meditations the questioning mind became calm and clarity of purpose returned. I had found myself again!
These are just a few of my favorite meditation links:
Loving Kindness Meditation: http://www.youtube.com/user/1GautamaBuddha?feature=pyv&ad=9516896152&kw=buddhist%20meditation#p/u/0/zRDsbXr9CY8
Breathing Meditation for stress reduction:
Mindfulness of Breathing:
Thank you for your loving and compassionate assistance.. you have a lot of power and strength and I appreciate you taking the time to comment on my post. Thank you for being open with me as well, the questions asked made me feel really vulnerable. I am going to try your links as well, and love you blog spot. Have a great day !
ReplyDeleteHello Cynthia
ReplyDeleteIt is funny that when I listened to this exercise my mind would not be still and quiet. It is interesting how each person has a very different experience listening to the same thing. I do see the benefit of it though to remind myself to keep my heart open, to love myself more so that in turn I can love others more.
Thanks for sharing the meditation links i will definitly listen to them.
I enjoyed the loving and kindness meditation link the most... as well as another link I found connected to that website... I love the photography, music, and inspirational thoughts.. I found another one too that was a narrative regarding love and kindness.. by the end of it you were sailing through the sky and parting the clouds...
ReplyDeleteThis is the link if you want to have that experience too:
www.youtube.com/user/1GautamaBuddha?feature=pyv&ad=9516896152&kw=buddhist%20meditation#p/a/u/0/zRDsbXr9CY8
Cynthia,
ReplyDeleteI can relate to your post and I believe meditation is one of the many ways we are able to find "home" again. It also allows us to maintain a certain level of peace and harmony within our spirit.
Learning different breathing technique and to train oneself to continuously do it on a daily basis is also a great way to have a centered chi throughout the day.
Krsytle
Thank you Cynthia for referring me to The Dance. What a beautiful and inspired reading.
ReplyDeleteHi, Cynthia
ReplyDeleteI enjoy reading your post, Loving-kindness is a meditation practice a way of healing the troubled mind to free it from its pain and confusion. Applying the practice to daily life is a matter of directing a friendly attitude and having openness toward everybody you relate to, without discrimination.It is because we have this present body with human faculties that we are able to enjoy all the pleasures and opportunities of human life. Even simple pleasures such as going for a walk or watching a beautiful sunset can be seen to be a result of the kindness of innumerable living beings.