I just completed the exercise. How enjoyable most of it was. My experience with listening to the first track was great. I was able to focus on a loved one. My emotions were good and bad and then after letting the breaths out of a loved one who is hurting I became at peace and very relaxed. It was difficult at first but once I focused I became in the zone. I would definitely recommend this and will try to continue this exercise for myself.
Now the second track I listened to immediately after the first track and I was very relaxed. I focused on my breathing and did not drift too much. I was into the zone. The Unfortunate thing is, that the CD just went to static. I nearly jumped a mile. Talk about being relaxed and going into a chaotic state. WOW!
I do know that I need to work on focusing on my metal workout. Working on the mind to relax will help with my stress and benefit me in my everyday life. I guess we just always have to be prepared for the unexpected. There are so many times I let my mind get the best of me. If I can really understand what triggers that this will help me get past it so I can have the mind body connection I want and deserve.
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Amanda I don't know if gaining all this knowledge about our mind body connection is a good thing or a bad. So far all it seems to have done is make me realize how much farther I need to improve...OR how meezly I have pursued most of my life thus far. I guess for myself working on my mind is adding more stress then benefiting me. Are you feeling more in power of yourself after the relaxation exercises or less?
ReplyDeleteAly,
ReplyDeleteI feel more in power. We just have to take it one day at a time. I am sure you have come far in your life. We are all on different paths and we can only do our best and look foward not back. Enjoy life, we only are here to live it one time! Don't let the stress get the best of you, I know that is easy to do.
Enjoy your journey!
Amanda
Amanda
ReplyDeleteSorry about the technical difficulty, I bet you really did jump out of your seat...lol. I see the need for us to train our mind and I wish I could have enjoyed this exercise as much as you did. I am glad you were able to get comfortable, get in the zone and relaxed. I say if this is working for you, keep doing it! I too will continue to work on being more loving-kindness and open my heart to others.
I had a bit of a trouble acknowledging my good and bad emotion, not really sure what I was supposed to do. Any suggestions?
Maggie
Amanda, glad you enjoyed the exercise, I had some difficulty with it. I agree with the triggers idea. I am trying to find out what triggers me most of the time it seems to be random thoughts that I take to obsessing about. Next thing I know hours or even days have gone by and the same negative thought has been playing over and over in my mind. I need to get to the point where I realize what the trigger is and reframe the thought before it overwhelms me.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your experience!
Stacy
GOOD JOB, TRIGGERS I THINK WE ALL HAVE THEM AT SOME POINT WHEN WE TRY SOMETHING NEW. THIS WEEK WAS A GOOD ONE BUT FOR ME I DID BRING BACK A LOT OF THINGS I WANTED TO FORGET. BREATHING IS HELPING WITH LOVING KINDNESS. TAKE CARE AND I ENJOYED READING THE POST.
ReplyDeleteHi Amanda,
ReplyDeleteI think the exercises definitely helped in settling my my mind and with everything going on around me it is sometimes hard to focus on stillness. I think it takes practice like anything else and my cd went static too and I almost jumped out of my skin lol I liked the breathing techniques it did help to calm me up until that point. I guess practice will make perfect.
Thanks for all your thoughts!
ReplyDeleteI think it just takes constant practice to train the mind. Each technique I use may not work for you. I try to set time aside and make sure that I have done everything before I start, if I don't then I can't focus enough to complete the exercise.
Best of luck to all of you!
Amanda
it is sometimes difficult to keep your mind focused on one thing; there are times I will drift on away and elsewhere, then I come back. I also thought the exercises did enable my mind to relax and stay on focus.
ReplyDeleteI think there are some people who would like to see change happen in the now but change is a process, not saying it won't happen but it comes through changing our way of acting and reacting to situations.
ReplyDeleteThe CD is such a help and useful for our everyday lives. Just as the text mention, begin several short practice sessions of 5 to 15 minutes every day until you become more comfortable in longer periods of time. It seems as though time will not allow this to happen but we just implement it slowly and before you know it, this will part of your everyday life.
ReplyDeleteThat is SO what happened to me!
ReplyDeleteI had nearly nodded off three different times with the Loving Kindness exercise, so I know what you mean when about the ‘static shock’! =o)
However I did manage to find a silver lining to that static – that was the best adrenaline rush I have had in a ‘relaxing’ situation in a long time! Actually, I have to laugh just thinking about more than one of us freaking out over the same thing. I thought it was just my CD that was bad! LoL! I tried to Google the exercise too, but to no avail.
Cheers!
T =o)