Saturday, February 7, 2015

HW-420 Unit 5 Subtle Mind Practice



This week we are working on Subtle Mind practice and I didn’t mind this one at all. I am using the mp3 as a sort of training. These are practices that do not need another person to guide you. The only frustration I had was the women’s voice interrupting. I have also been practicing the Loving –Kindness and have found that without the woman’s voice interrupting I find the practice relaxing and quite meditative. Breathing or breath and using it to keep me focused during my meditation is something I do often. I like the idea of using our breath to let go of all the mental movement. I don’t think we can say we don’t like this practice after only a week. It takes weeks, if not months to train our minds to let go. A week is too short. And if we ourselves aren’t open to the practice then it will never be more than frustration. These things take time and many of us think our lives are too busy to practice these meditative ways.

I’ve used these practices in my daily meditation, I just didn’t have names for them. So while it’s guided for our exercises, it doesn’t have to be that way in the future if you choose to learn the technique.

Meditation has brought a spiritual wellness to my life and it has increased my awareness to my surroundings and how all of it affects my total being. I manifested this when I started my journey to get healthy over ten years ago. It all started with a show on Oprah and from her introduction to things beyond medical health to spiritual health I began to understand what was missing. I continue today with meditation and the practice of the Tao to nourish my spiritual self.

Linda

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