Hello everyone.
Honestly, I found both the meditation from last week, and the one from this week just about equally frustrating and helpful. I liked the guided imagery from last week, but found the amount of guidance annoying. This week, there was less verbal guidance, but I have been so stressed and crazy running around this week, where it was difficult to focus my thoughts. I found it difficult to let go of my frustrations and not follow the disruptive thoughts that kept coming to mind. Because of my high stress level this week, I also found it difficult to get physically comfortable and relaxed enough to really get into and enjoy the meditation.
This week I have definitely fully realized the connection between mind and body! Being in a heightened state of stress as made me have headache, muscle tension, the inability to focus on tasks, and also made me not eat as healthy as I usually do, which has then made me feel even worse physically. I knew that the mind and body were connected in before I began this class, but I never knew how much. Because of the things I have learned the past few weeks, I am now able to not only recognize when my mind and body are affecting each other, but also articulate the reasons behind it.
I hope you all had a better week than I did, and I wish us all a less stressful week to come!
~Catherine
Hi Catherine,
ReplyDeleteOk first off I love the title of your blog! Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of my favorites. I also had the same problem with the last two meditations. It found it hard to focus and really let go of everything around me. It always seems like as soon as I sit down to meditate, someone decides it is time to ask me for something. I hope that your week gets better!
~ Sandra
Hello Catherine,
ReplyDeleteI can relate to the difficulty you faced focusing on the practices, and I hope your week improves. It seems as though a lot of our classmates have struggled to maintain focus on the practices as well, and I'm starting to think it is simply just one of those weeks that are impossible to unwind from - or maybe it's just a period of days, maybe something to do with the Mercury retrograde..
It's amazing how these exercises do gradually help us to be more definitive and focused and concise as individuals, able to describe our thoughts and feelings in words that would have otherwise been unbeknownst to us, impossible to find. I'm glad that despite the stress you are dealing with, you are able to reap some of the subtle benefits to the practices. :)
-Ajax
Hi Catherine,
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting how we all as individuals process information. I can most definitely understand how the amount of guidance can be annoying. For example, whenever I go to a store in the mall such as a clothing store I find it very annoying that no sooner than when I step foot inside of the door I'm asked "Can I help you?" I've learned to live with that but the real annoyance is whenever I pick up something to look at or touch something it's "Would you like to try it on?" I'm always thinking I wish they would go somewhere until I need help. It's too much. So back to the guidance I definitely understand where you're coming from :)
Cheers to a less stressful week!