I found this exercise from Dacher’s (2006) Integral Health book to be extremely helpful! A focus on the breathing and getting a guide to walk me through felt wonderful. The exercises give me practice at being still mentally and help with relaxation breathing. With breathing in the suffering it was easier for strangers rather than the one I am intimate with. This is probably because the suffering of those we know feels more intense because we are close to it emotionally and empathize. Loving kindness did put me in touch with the actual amount of physical pain I feel from over exerting my muscles on Wednesday. Toward the end of the exercise my physical aches were stronger than I notice during the course of the day. I did ignore them, but know I will need to take better care with the physical activity I do : ).
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I am glad to see someone else experienced emotional issues when doing this exercise. I was overwhelmed at first and had to start over. I loved your comment about the exercise putting you in touch with your own physical pain. We all tend to keep going no matter what. I have been using the first exercise we did with the blood moving to get blood to my hip pain, seems to be working. Take care of yourself, maybe a nice hot bath.
ReplyDeleteBlessings, Leslie