Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Unit 4 Post
Hello from Maine, had a great weekend, but a very stressful beginning of the week. I would like to say that the exercise Loving Kindness was very powerful. Breathing in all of the illnesses, stresses, hatred of others, and expelling to them love and kindness. It can be very difficult to forgive someone who has harmed you, but holding onto hatred will only hurt you, not the person you have ill feelings for. The CD was very helpful to me. On Monday, a coworker was let go after 17 years. I kind of expected it to happen, but when it really did happen, I felt so bad for her. Monday night, I could not shut my mind off. I had to do some breathing exercises then tried to practice the CD exercises, I do not remember how long it took, but I did fall asleep. I woke up several times throughout the night, having bad dreams, but just re-started breathing and relaxing again to fall asleep. I am hopeful I will become more at ease with these exercises and they will become second nature.
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Well it seems like this exercise was very beneficial to you this week :) I'm so glad it helped you to relax. It helped me relax before I started writing my psych paper tonight. I'm looking forward to new meditation and relaxation activites in the future. I believe this exercise was very powerful as well in regards to focusing our positive energy more on ourselves.
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear about your cowoker. On a personal note, I feel that companies that let life time employees go don't want to pay retirment benifits. They get theirs in the end with high turn-over but most of all new employees that realy don't give a rat's but about their job. Moving on, the waking up during the sleep are thoughts about your co-worker's feelings (compassion on your part) and it happening to you. Glad to see that you called upon your breathing exercise to get you through. Sending out and bringing in positive thoughts and feelings will help too. Let the gossip go one ear and out the other...don't add any either. I want you to get a peace full sleep. Worrying about what you added to the office gossip can hurt that.
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I am right with you when it comes to forgiving individuals. I fully agree with what the books states about it and agree with what you say about it hurting you more then the other individual. But it's still a tough one to over come. I have been dealing with it, within my own family. I am slowly getting past it, but it's all comes to people are people and you accept the way they are or you close your life to them. Don't know if this is the right way, but helps remove the frustration and longing to understand why they act the way they do.
ReplyDeleteThanks!