I always find reading out loud more therapeutic, maybe its the tone of my voice, who knows? I seem to take in the words and what it is trying to tell me more so than reading it in my head. I do read affirmations and have a few around my house, mostly by Buddha. The loving kindness meditation exercise I found simple to take in the words as I am and have always been compassionate and empathetic towards others.
With the Integral Assessment, I found it interesting to focus on what part of my life do I find difficult and what line of development I should take. I would have to say having more patience and not letting the fear of failure with regards to my career, creep in. Even though I am usually positive and confident with all that I do, we are only human at the end of the day. As I get older I am getting better and I have my spiritual focus to keep my ego at bay ;)
An activity that I can implement more with these two things are more breathing exercises in regards to patience and keeping my book ' The Secret' close to me when that negative feeling of fear wants to show its ugly head!
Hi Lou,
ReplyDeleteIn reading through your blog I realized the mistake I was making when I practiced the universal loving kindness exercise for this week. Silly me, I wasn't saying the words out loud, I was saying them in my head. What a difference it makes doing it your (and the correct) way. I am so laughing at myself right now! But, we live and learn right? Especially from each other! Now I can truly appreciate this exercise and will probably get more comfortable with it faster.
In focusing on my life with the assessment I too thought of breathing exercises to try to help me keep calm. I honestly had not heard of the book you mentioned "The Secret" and googled it to see what it was about. I think, like you say, this would be a very helpful companion to have handy, and will look more closely at it next time I go to the book store.
Again your blog is always so helpful for me, I look forward to reading it each week and learning from you. THANKS! Sandy
Thank you Sandy, you know, we all learn from each other and I am happy that you are happy in reading my blogs. Now for unit 7 :)
ReplyDeleteHave a blessed day