I enjoyed this exercise. I find it amazing that it is so easy to focus love onto someone else and so hard to focus it onto our selves. This exercise made me realize that I am still growing, it is not that I did not know this but while I was laying there, I starting thinking of loving myself and then some of the negative thoughts started to creep in...ugh, my little ideas of what should look like this and what should feel like that. But then I realized I was doing it and stopped. It was nice to just feel my body and whatever it was feeling and just accept it in love. I really needed that. When I travel sometimes my ankles swell pretty bad...so I was feeling a bit aggravated about it and in a way not loving myself and accepting that maybe I should not be sitting with my legs hanging down , maybe this was a sign that my body wanted to lay down...When doing this exercise I apologized to my body and said "I am sorry for not listening to what you wanted..."
Overall I did find this exercise beneficial, it was not difficult and I would recommend it to others. I find that instantly I was able to utilize what the exercise was offering. I do think that for someone with a busy mind/ one that wanders ..the time in between commands will be too long...
I will be using this exercise again...
Jamillah~
Hey Jamillah,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the wonderfully kind words you posted on my blog.I, too, feel inspired by you, my new friend.
I'm glad you were able to use the Loving-Kindness meditation for what you needed. In doing mine yesterday, I was a little distracted but was able to continue bringing my focus back to my breathing. I find when I focus more on the sound of my breath, through the headphones, I get into a deeper state.
Be well.
It is amazing that we find it so difficult to love ourselves, just like it is harder to forgive ourselves then it is someone who has done wrong to us. I had a good experience with this exercise and I too will be using it again. Anything that promotes such positive feelings in our lives is something that anybody will benefit from.
ReplyDeleteGood luck on your pursuits.
Jamillah,
ReplyDeleteYou are very in touch with your body as well as your inner self, I can tell because most of us wouldn't even think about apologizing to our bodies for not listening to what it wants and needs. It sounds like you store lots of energy in your legs and they wanted to rest and not be stored so tightly and it seems like you know that and I get that too in my hands. I can't have people touch my hands not even the boyfriend because I just hold soo much energy there and I forget that I have to release it at times and I ignore my body's signals but then I put my mind aside and work what I feel naturally. I know exactly what your saying won how it's so hard to love ourselves even give ourselves compliments daily. I hate that part of me and how this society has brought me to separate my body from my mind and my spirit. It is a relief to get into this class and share a connection with more people yearning and thirsting for more connection to one another to ourselves and how it's a natural feeling not something new although a foreign concept it am learning. I hope in your journey you too can learn to effortlessly love your entire entity daily
Peace and light.
Rox