Hello all~
I listened to the cd for a good majority of the weekend. The practice failed me or should I say I failed the practice. I just can not get into keeping my mind still for longer than 5 minutes. Even though I would breath and concentrate on my inhale and exhale which worked for a short period of time, the busyness of my day or life situations would break up any silence going on in my mind. I thought that it was very true how we are enslaved by our thoughts. The images, feelings and unresolved solutions to problems take over. I exercised for a good hour on yesterday as well as today and I found the benefit of mentally focusing on my exercise routine. I often close my eyes when I am reaching a point of exhaustion or feeling the 'burn' associated with fatigue and I simply pray and this helps me to push on. I have been doing this for years and the benefits are self-gratifying.
While watching the football game today, Aaron Rogers quaterback for the Green Bay Packers said something (quoted from the commentator) that fit in with our units subject; "slow the mind & trust your feet". He shared this information with a collegeau and I thought is was great advice to give to another quaterback that was possibly doubting their own capability.
I hope everyone is finding their inner man and growing more holistically.
Nada,
ReplyDeleteDon't worry it was hard for me to pay attention too. Even my husband spaced out while listening to it with me. There were mn reason I couldn't focus but the main reason I couldn't focus was my 3 year old. Between him running back and forth screaming my name and him climbing in my lap asking me what I was doing I couldn't focus on my breathing much. It is really true that we are enslaved in our thoughts because I have certainly caught myself spacing out from time to time thinking about things goin on in my life. I need to start exercising but I just feel like I don't have enough time in m day to do it. Hopefully one day I will be able to.
Thoughts are going to come and go, the key is letting the thoughts come and go. The moment you notice that you are fixed on a thought snap out of it. Focus on the thought of focusing on nothing. Close your eyes and just look at the darkness and think on that. For example, make statments to your mind on how dark it is, this is true black, I want to see what is different from the left eye darkness and the right eye darkness. The question don't really need to be answered. The thing that you are doing by the questions is keeping your focus on one thing with no room for something to enter because you are focused on coming up with more comments about the darkness. Now what you are really doing is training your mind to focus and block out. Once you get the swing of that, you will find yourself just looking at the darkness and no comments.
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