Monday, March 24, 2014
Unit 4
So, I had a difficult time concentrating on the loving-kindness exercise. I focused more on doing the witnessing mind exercise, in which I just observed my thoughts, because I had a lot of bad thoughts. I started out focusing on someone and my love for them, and then myself... but so much time lapsed between the speakers leading that by the time they spoke again my mind had gone somewhere else. I always have difficulty with this exercise, therefore it is my least favorite. Maybe that is something worth exploring. I agree with the speaker though that until we love ourselves, it is difficult to love others. I also see the benefit of doing this exercise, it helps to get our minds off of ourselves and onto others.
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I do like the idea of focusing on loving kindness and everything, but I also had trouble with this exercise. One of the reasons was as you said that there was so much time between the speakers directions that I would lose focus. I was already a bit confused as to what we were to focus on half the time that I just couldn't get into it. But I do like the idea of the exercise. I'm sure there are better ones out there that could be used.
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