Hello all.
This week we were asked to complete the Universal Loving Kindness exercise and the Integral Assessment. With the Universal Loving Kindness exercise I began to say to myself "May all individuals gain freedom from suffering, may all indivduals find sustained health, happiness, and wholeness, may I assist all individuals in gaining freedom from suffering, and my I assist all individuals in finding health, happiness, and wholeness" (Dacher, 2006, p. 93). After telling myself this for about 5 minutes I began to feel as if the words were healing me at the same time. After 10 minutes it began to have a calming effect. With the the asessment I interpersonal need for improvement. I say this because I believe if I start there I can work myself up to the higher levels. There is always room for improvement. By focusing on myself I can become well or whole enough that I can venture into my spiritual side and ultimately get to adjusting my worldy side. I will attempt to use meditation in the form of the subtle mind exercise to gain a better understanging of my mind. Hopefully this will allow me to change the other aspects of my being.
Referecnes:
Dacher, E.S. (2006). Integral health: the path to human flourishing. LaGuna Beach, CA: Basic Health Publishing, Inc.
Great blog, I particularly agree with after 10 minutes it began to bring a calming to myself. I felt genuinely positive after repeating those phrases and smoothly followed into the next exercise. I found some room for improvement and it was deep. Self assessment is wonderful; it is a way of improving one self. The only issue is to strive for perfection and fail. Yet, when I know I tried my best and gave it my all, and then I know I was right, I know I can sleep at night. I also agree there is always room for improvement, we are human, I get it. The follow up exercise was great and now I know I can work on being more confident and have more personal trust, I can also develop a balance there and then move onto another mountain and climb that one, one mountain at a time.
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