The Universal loving kindness exercise was interesting. I feel that the goal of this exercise is make your mind really believe what you are saying. I mean I believe and feel the feelings and emotions from each sentence but will they work for everyone. I know if you regularily repeat something to yourself whether it be true or not eventually your mind will start believing it. Personally I do not feel this exercise was as effective as the first loving kindness exercise. In the first loving kindness exercise you can substitute the one person for a group of people and I feel it will be more effective than this exercise.
The area that I have chosen to be a focus of growth and development is self regulation and social activism. To me self regulation would be like staying committed to doing something to keep going forward to reach a goal. My goal at the present is finishing Kaplan. I really want to go on and get my masters degree but I am not sure where I want to focus my talents. There are so many areas of Health Science that I am interested in that I know I cannot do it all. This is one of my downfalls in life is I have to realize I cannot do everything for everyone. I have a hard time letting my children especially even though they are grown and have families of their own be totally independent. I am not sure what category this falls into as far as growth and development but it is something I need to work on.
When it comes to social activism I want to be more involved with my community. I want to learn Spanish and focus my education and talents toward helping the Spanish and other immigrant populations when it comes to health and wellness of all areas.
Practicing my loving kindness exercise will help me when communicating with the public. The subtle mind exercise will help me focus on my goals more effectively. And finally taking time for myself by keeping myself healthy in all areas of mind, body and spirit will make me a better person.
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Sherri,
I think you nailed this exercise by stating that "if you regularly repeat something to yourself whether it be true or not eventually your mind will start believing it". This is so true and I feel that this exercise really tried to make you center your thoughts on the words you were saying so that you would believe them and be revitalized by them.
Great post!
Hey there, I feel the same way you do where there are so many things I would like to do but so little time. As a result, in the past, I have started on projects and not complete them or I moved on to something else. I think it is great that you recognize this and yes I agree with you, finishing Kaplan is a really good goal to work on because it is huge and oen it is over, you will feel that sense of completion.
Sherri, Reading this was like looking in the mirror. I asked myself wow, who really wrote this. You spoke my heart and I definitely understand how you feel. I think for me it is balance, trying to balance myself in this area, is the hardest of all my task. I wish you luck.
Hi Sherri, I do think this exercise has a element to it which requires one to believe he/she can truly have an affect on the world. I think that when we can not see the good we are doing it is harder to believe that we are doing it.
I enjoyed your post
Cherie
Your goals of development in social activism and working with immigrant populations and learning Spanish are admirable. At this point in my life I am interested in community activism also. It is important to practice the loving kindness exercise when working with the community and reaching the goal of unity consciousness to make this world a healthy place.
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