Monday, June 9, 2014
Health, Happiness, & Wholeness/Human Flourishing
This week's blog was quite interesting. Since I am counting down the days till I am able to hear real ocean waves I found this to be quite the enjoyable experience. I did think this week's audio was quite long, but nonetheless enjoyable. By the time I got to part about taking on other's pain it sort of brought me out of my calm state. Meditation to me is letting the negative energy go. I don't want to burden my calm state with my own problems let alone someone elses. For me meditation is letting go of the negative and bring in the positive. I cannot take in someone's suffering and put out positive energy. I would choose to deal with helping someone in another way. Meditation requires a great deal of mind control which not many have (including myself). I work very hard to stay focused when I meditate but often my mind drifts to the many things I need to do. If I focus to hard I fall asleep. Falling asleep is definitely a new way for me to "let it go." :)
Ash
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Hello Ashley,
ReplyDeleteI had a hard time with the exercise as well. I could not seem to calm my mind and every time that I would get close, I would lose my focus when there was talking. Meditation is not an easy task and I find it interesting on how much control of the mind it really takes. I like your ideas on taking in people's suffering. I had a hard time with that logic as well.
Hi Ashley,
ReplyDeleteI love the water on your blog! Blue is one of my favorite colors. I liked this weeks exercise better than the first one as well. The water was awesome. I find the voices a bit distracting. Maybe its because I already meditate and don't use any music or guide. You may try meditation in the am and try sitting up, that helped me not to fall asleep :). Have a great week!