Monday, February 14, 2011
Unit 6 blog
I am still not getting super great at the meditation aspects of integral health, I am not good at shuting my other thoughts down and putting my full energy into the process. So I didn't really enjoy the universial loving-kindness exercise. I am slowly getting a little better at the process, and hopefully by the end of this term I will be able to report better news. When doing the integral assessment I enjoyed being able to look deeper into mysel to see what areas need fixed the most and where I could benefit to grow the most. I think that the areas I need to work on most is the personal line of develoment. I see that my personal relationships often suffer and I also feel that working on this line of development would benefit my family and community line as well.
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John,
ReplyDeleteyour truthfulness and honesty is what is going to make you a stronger individual in this meditative practice. We will not always meditate and find peace, happiness and wholeness, truth, wisdom, and enlightenment. This takes days, months, weeks. years, decades etc...There will be days where there is nothing going on in there and your still learning, believe it or not you may be over thinking everything and thats ok what we aren't good at we try harder right??? Well this is one of those practices that don't require much thought, like am I doing this right, is it too quiet in here, maybe I should close the blinds and I should've started dinner before starting to meditate etc... . But when you just stop thinking you will get it, it;s hard though and it will not be the same every week some days it will come naturally and some days nothing will come to you but you have to honor and respect yourself each time because you are engaging in something so powerful and meaningful to yourself. I honor your honesty very much and I know that when you truly feel whatever it is you need to feel or see it will be real and it will be beautiful. I technique I try once in a while is drinking hot chamomile tea or put a towel with lavender scented spray over my eyes and I focus on breathing in the aromas of the sweet lavender or the taste of the chamomile and then i let my mind quite. I hope you can find something that works for you because you are so close to finding out great and wonderful things through meditative practices. And remember they are practices each day will be different from the rest it's neither good nor bad it just is. Take care
Rox
It is ok that you are not great at it or that you have yet to see the full potental of what you are doing. Our growth is a process, something that we will never be done doing. We are always going to find that we need to improve or tweak certain areas. The first step is knowing that we need to improve and deciding what we are going to do to make that change.
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ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your blog post. It is sometimes hard to silence the chatter but know with consistancy comes success. Just keep at it, keep trying and keep wanting to be a better you..
Love & Light
Jamillah