The loving kindness exercise was the most
beneficial with me. It had us take our
feelings of love and kindness and expand them from just one person, to
ourselves, to others around us to even our enemies. A lot of the personal work I was doing, even
before this class, is to try to love everyone, even my boss and be kinder to
those around me. This visualization was
also the easiest for me. I tend to base
a lot of my life around my emotions of things.
Having an exercise that was based on my emotions made it easier to do
and clearer in my mind. I plan to
continue to use this meditation in my life to help me learn to accept others as
they are and see the positives in them.
Meeting Asclepius was my other
favorite. Although it was difficult for
me to decide on a person, so took me another time of doing it to get the
desired effect, it still helped me find my self-esteem. Going into this field and being new to Kaplan
made me feel a little behind everyone else and made me wonder if I had picked
the right career field. After doing this
exercise it made me realize that I too could be like the healer I envisioned, I
just needed to work hard and believe in myself.
It gave me a lot of self-confidence to visualize myself as the healer I
thought of. I will continue to use this
practice so that I can build up my confidence and do well in my chosen
career. I feel this exercise will help
lead me in a positive direction in my life.
This makes me realize that when I have
clients of my own that giving them a variety of meditations, exercises and
practices will be important as everyone is different. I work better with emotion based exercises
but my client may not. I like that we
were exposed to a variety of exercises and were allowed to choose which one
best fit us as an individual.
Nicole,
ReplyDeleteMy two favorite exercises were also the Loving Kindness and our most recent visualization. Like you, I do better with tapping into emotions. In fact sometimes when I am told to envision something, I draw a complete blank. Does this happen to you?
I am glad that Meeting Asclepius was so beneficial to you. It seems like you could use this to your advantage to really envision a healer with specific capabilities that you want and then envision becoming that healer.
I wish you luck in your adventures.
Sacha
I do think there is no greater importance than what the client is willing to accept, and when one is considering spiritual growth making a leap of faith into organized religion may be too much, meditative practices could be attainable, and vice versa. I find how incredible it is people discount meidtative but will advocate prayer instead for it ins foundational in religion, but isn't prayer a form of meditation adapted to the religious sacraments? It really would have to do with the client's openness toward alternative practicies and , like you emphasized, what will work best for the client.
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