Hello,
The loving-kindness exercise was beneficial to me, because I’m
dealing with this now in most aspects of my life. This practice will help me
open up my heart more, because at this point in my life I feel incomplete;
which it feels like I have not reach complete happiness within myself to be
able to express it to other. I’ve always been a kind person and nice, but I
never was completely happy; I never had anyone in my life to give me that
complete love. My parents were there to nurture me, but I always felt like I
needed more as a child too; which I had 6 other siblings my parents had to
disperse their love to. Yes, I would defiantly recommend this exercise to
anyone, because you never know what individuals are going through; sometimes
individuals do not show that they are hurting on the inside they keep it bottle
up. Loving-kindness is very much needed, because it gets an individual through
life. The concept of the mental work is to develop consciousness and healing
capacities to progressive development throughout life with continuous practice
and effort. The proven benefits of mental workout is the practice of
loving-kindness and wisdom. The practice of loving-kindness and wisdom have to
be incorporated to complete a part of the well-being process of happiness,
wholeness, and health. These practice helps us love ourselves, family, friends,
and even strangers; which we incorporated both loving-kindness together to be
able to express love and calmness. The
way I can implement mental workouts is honestly I need to find my happiness
with implementing these various mediation exercises, because so far I have
learn so much. The problem I have is giving and receiving, which I have to stop
thinking about every time I give I need to receive back in return, because the
only thing I need that I give in return is love and I don’t really get much of
that. Practice is something I need to do more of for love, compassion, and a
subtle mind!
Thank you for sharing! I know it is sometimes hard to look into what is going on in your life when you are so focused on everyone else. I know that with the number of struggles I have had throughout my life it was very important to accept myself for who I am, not what everyone else thought I should be. Often times I too would project that happiness but never really was. It wasn't until I started exercising as a form of relaxation that I finally felt that self-love again. Your blog has really motivated me to take a second look at this audio and try to have more of an open heart to my family as I have kind of shut them out. So thank you for that.
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ReplyDeleteI can relate to what you are dealing with now as well, and I think this is why the "Loving-Kindness" exercise was so helpful to me. It helped me embrace positive, strengthening feelings and emotions through someone in my life that I admire, love, and have great feelings towards, but then it also lets us take these feelings and direct them towards someone we know that is suffering. Learning how to channel our feelings and react to things in a positive way is so helpful, strengthening, and beneficial for us as an individual, but we can then also help others through our personal growth and development as well. Thank you so much for sharing!
~Anna
Thank you for sharing some of your personal struggles. It is true that having a loving-kindness attitude towards everyone can not only benefit them, but benefit you as well, but first you have to love yourself. You get out of the world what you put into it, but you cannot put it, that which you do not have. I think that is why Dacher comments that before we can begin to grow spiritually, we must have a healthy psychology.
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