Over the last few weeks I have been pleasantly awakened to some exercises that do help to quiet the mind and awaken the true nature of the soul. These exercises include: loving kindness, meditation subtle mind, visualization and a few more. Each of these exercises gives us an opportunity to create a moving experience if we so choose. It is in our best interest to try out each style to see which one works for us. For me the most beneficial is a combination of meditation/yoga, and the subtle mind exercise.
I would like my practice to consist of a working wellness center. I would like this center to be multi tiered to include all aspects of healing. The bottom floor should be the exercise area : weights, work-out classes, yoga. The second floor should be massage/counsel, facials and body wraps, the third floor should be mental exercise and spiritual exercise that include: meditation, prayer, visualization, and the like. One this property there should be meditation gardens, therapy animals, and an organic food kitchen that incorporates cooking classes and meal planning. Each phase of the center will reach to attain the opening of the mind and a higher vibrational path.
In my personal life I already like a certain way by eating certain foods, prayer, massage. I would like to bring in more subtle mind and visualization. The subtle mind was easy to work with and helped me to feel the most heightened sense of connection. However the visualization was the most difficult to attain however I think this area is important for my development. Each day should include a set amount of time for either exercise. It is imperative to rotate to challenge the mind. A writing practice should be implemented after each exercise so that progress can be monitored and recorded.
Choosing to live this way and help others to change at their own speed is all part of the integral path to wellness and human flourishing.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
"Meeting Asciepius"
This was an interesting meditative practice because so much was compiled into such few sentences. We had heard it before though I just like to be able to resonate on what is expected before moving on so quickly. So It took a couple listens to really be able to allow my mind to let go and stop nagging.
I enjoyed focusing on a wise one: my focus was my grandpa who is no longer around.
I enjoyed sharing a beam of white light in the areas of the mind, throat, and heart with the essence of him, me, and the a feeling of wise, loving kindness with the yellow beam resonating in my vibrating body matching it light with my soul and doubling it.
One is able to foster anything through the element of practice and earlier ventures. It is imperative to reinforce such meditations to gain access to human flourishing and integral health.
The statement; "one can not lead another where one has not gone themselves" is saying that one can not fully understand human development and flourishing with out actually experiencing it themselves. Through such an adventure one will have developed the skill, understanding, and wisdom necessary to share.
I enjoyed focusing on a wise one: my focus was my grandpa who is no longer around.
I enjoyed sharing a beam of white light in the areas of the mind, throat, and heart with the essence of him, me, and the a feeling of wise, loving kindness with the yellow beam resonating in my vibrating body matching it light with my soul and doubling it.
One is able to foster anything through the element of practice and earlier ventures. It is imperative to reinforce such meditations to gain access to human flourishing and integral health.
The statement; "one can not lead another where one has not gone themselves" is saying that one can not fully understand human development and flourishing with out actually experiencing it themselves. Through such an adventure one will have developed the skill, understanding, and wisdom necessary to share.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Current Level of Development and the Loving Kindness Exercise
From the loving kindness exercise I am able to witness our capacity of universal loving kindness and how powerful of a tool this can be. This practice (while hard to memorize at first) can quickly become a driver toward interpersonal development. Through this practice we are able to not only share this gift with ourselves but with the world. While my first experience was not as open as I wanted to be my second experience allowed me to release more love, through an open heart, sensitivity, generosity, and emotional intimacy.
Through a formal assessment we are all able to take a real look at who we are and where we would like to end up as an individual. One must first quiet and still the mind and then focus attention on the four quadrants of the integral map before taking inventory. One will find that maybe one or all areas need more focus and development. There is no right or wrong only awareness and understanding, love and forgiveness.
One should focus on each of the four quadrants individually and identify specific areas that need more development. From this exercise I have determined the following: psychospiritually I would like to further develop the calm-abiding mind. Biologically I would like to further develop my anatomical body in a more active way, and make time for more development in the spiritual/body. Interpersonally, I feel I have a good understanding of I, you, and all of us but would like to look more closely at the concept of us. In the final worldly view I would like to learn more about true survival not city survival, and creative expression through a art of some sort.
I feel that by developing each of these areas more fully I will be able to reach a new level of mind/body/spirit. Once obtained more can be uncovered. Through more meditation I will be able to work on my development of a calm-abiding mind. I will be able also more toward a mental and physical fitness level that can enhance the calm-abiding and the anatomical body. Both will help to further develop the spiritual/body. From this standpoint I can see how the interpersonal development will follow in my expansion of "us" as a whole with no one left in a void. From such development I may find that I take more time for worldly development of which has always been an interest. I would love to make time for outdoor survival, and further understanding of creative expression along with my own development of that expression.
Just being able to verbally express these needs for more development will help to create the motivation necessary for the start of this development.
Through a formal assessment we are all able to take a real look at who we are and where we would like to end up as an individual. One must first quiet and still the mind and then focus attention on the four quadrants of the integral map before taking inventory. One will find that maybe one or all areas need more focus and development. There is no right or wrong only awareness and understanding, love and forgiveness.
One should focus on each of the four quadrants individually and identify specific areas that need more development. From this exercise I have determined the following: psychospiritually I would like to further develop the calm-abiding mind. Biologically I would like to further develop my anatomical body in a more active way, and make time for more development in the spiritual/body. Interpersonally, I feel I have a good understanding of I, you, and all of us but would like to look more closely at the concept of us. In the final worldly view I would like to learn more about true survival not city survival, and creative expression through a art of some sort.
I feel that by developing each of these areas more fully I will be able to reach a new level of mind/body/spirit. Once obtained more can be uncovered. Through more meditation I will be able to work on my development of a calm-abiding mind. I will be able also more toward a mental and physical fitness level that can enhance the calm-abiding and the anatomical body. Both will help to further develop the spiritual/body. From this standpoint I can see how the interpersonal development will follow in my expansion of "us" as a whole with no one left in a void. From such development I may find that I take more time for worldly development of which has always been an interest. I would love to make time for outdoor survival, and further understanding of creative expression along with my own development of that expression.
Just being able to verbally express these needs for more development will help to create the motivation necessary for the start of this development.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Breathing and the Subtle Mind Exercise
OK first off there is something terribly wrong with my CD particularly On track three. It sounds like when the t.v. goes out. Anyway track four is still good.
So in hopes of not screwing this up I read through chapter 7, and made sure to read Practice Two twice. Then I put on my own music (massage stuff via pandora) and began to breath. Now as a kid I learned how to meditate with my grandpa who also did yoga for two hours every afternoon. So, I understand this breath work with breathing process. I lay on the floor and began my meditation with my eyes closed. Because of my job I work with my breath to make my body anatomically correct the first few moments and then I began to quietly turn off any triggers that my mind activates. I breath these words out my focal point is strength, endurance, balance, energy, peace, and love for all. A mantra the message I wish to carry today. I continued this process for about 25 minutes until the door bell rang.
I should mention trying to bounce up after a deep breathing meditation was a really vibrational experience. My body was actually very awake on a "hightened senses" kind of way. I felt extremely alive and in tune with my environment around me. I truly embraced this moment and shared it with a hug with my visitor; a truly fantastic moment. However, I prefer not having to bounce up, to take the time for the energy to drop back into your body gives to a since of ahhhhhh.
I liked this exercise better than the loving kindness exercise. Or maybe blending them in an integral fashion would be better. Breathing in suffering for a loved one and let the dark cloud dissolve in our hearts while focusing on the breath. the loving kindness had way to much visualization and didn't really focus on concentration. Breathing is repetitive and easy if we can focus on it and make it powerful then we will be able to enhance loving kindness with out breath!
There is a strong interconnection between mental, physical, and spiritual wellness. They all are inter-related. Our breath connects us to our minds. We can use our breath to gain perspective, connection, and understanding of all the mental, physical, and spiritual acts all at the same time. If we stay focused and allow these thoughts to come and go our minds are telling us what is needed. Things that need to be focused on and dealt with so that there can be a quietness and calmness in our physical, mental and spiritual bodies. Think in threes people! They all relate!
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Hawaiian meaning of Ha
To breathe , exhale, to breathe upon, as kava (special root) after praying and before prognosticating; breath, life, breathed into the open space, the spirit of his mouth, the breathe of his mouth.
So in hopes of not screwing this up I read through chapter 7, and made sure to read Practice Two twice. Then I put on my own music (massage stuff via pandora) and began to breath. Now as a kid I learned how to meditate with my grandpa who also did yoga for two hours every afternoon. So, I understand this breath work with breathing process. I lay on the floor and began my meditation with my eyes closed. Because of my job I work with my breath to make my body anatomically correct the first few moments and then I began to quietly turn off any triggers that my mind activates. I breath these words out my focal point is strength, endurance, balance, energy, peace, and love for all. A mantra the message I wish to carry today. I continued this process for about 25 minutes until the door bell rang.
I should mention trying to bounce up after a deep breathing meditation was a really vibrational experience. My body was actually very awake on a "hightened senses" kind of way. I felt extremely alive and in tune with my environment around me. I truly embraced this moment and shared it with a hug with my visitor; a truly fantastic moment. However, I prefer not having to bounce up, to take the time for the energy to drop back into your body gives to a since of ahhhhhh.
I liked this exercise better than the loving kindness exercise. Or maybe blending them in an integral fashion would be better. Breathing in suffering for a loved one and let the dark cloud dissolve in our hearts while focusing on the breath. the loving kindness had way to much visualization and didn't really focus on concentration. Breathing is repetitive and easy if we can focus on it and make it powerful then we will be able to enhance loving kindness with out breath!
There is a strong interconnection between mental, physical, and spiritual wellness. They all are inter-related. Our breath connects us to our minds. We can use our breath to gain perspective, connection, and understanding of all the mental, physical, and spiritual acts all at the same time. If we stay focused and allow these thoughts to come and go our minds are telling us what is needed. Things that need to be focused on and dealt with so that there can be a quietness and calmness in our physical, mental and spiritual bodies. Think in threes people! They all relate!
-
Hawaiian meaning of Ha
To breathe , exhale, to breathe upon, as kava (special root) after praying and before prognosticating; breath, life, breathed into the open space, the spirit of his mouth, the breathe of his mouth.
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