- Compare and contrast the Loving Kindness exercise and the Subtle mind exercise. Explain your experience including the benefits, frustrations etc.
With the
Loving –Kindness practice we are focusing on feelings, thoughts, other people
and how you feel about them. Once we take all this in, we channel all the
feelings no matter what the feeling, good or bad we are to turn any negative
feeling into positive, Loving-kindness kind of thoughts. Our thoughts that are
disturbing and unpleasant only really hurt ourselves. We are the ones that must
deal with this on a day to day basis. I see loving-kindness as a great way to
keep everything positive even those who seem to want to bring you down. You
change your thoughts so that even your enemies or absolutely annoying people
become part of the love and kindness in your life (Dacher, 2006).
With the
calm-abiding practice it is more about relaxing and clearing the mind so that
you can concentrate on witnessing your mind. Taking advantage of the fact that
you can focus on what really need to be focused on. Not the constant chatter of
things that don’t matter in life or that just bring you down not allowing you
to focus on what is important. Calm abiding is concentrating on you breathing
and quieting your mind. Even if you are pulled away from this, which will
happen very frequently, especially when you are just beginning to learn how to
use calm-abiding practice (Dacher, 2006).
My
experience was very good with both of these. I find that they can both give
benefits in different aspects in your life. I believe that turning negative
into positive and then calming the mind go hand in hand. One allows you to get
ready for the other.
Julie
References
Dacher, s. m. (2006). Integral Health, The Path
to Human Flourishing. Laguna Beach: basic Health Publications.
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