Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Loving-kindness

Practicing Loving-kindness is an awesome way to alleviate potential stress by changing the way we may react to situations.  I believe that the state of mind and clarity that can be reached during these exercises, may help keep negative reactions out of sight and out of mind.  Other people can feel the way we are thinking and our energies as well.  So taking fifteen minutes out of our day to think about things, may also change the way that other people react to us.  I would say the only thing that is difficult about this kind of exercise is making it a routine.  I have done this kind of thing for years, in a reactionary way, almost taking a timeout after something had happened.  This kind of psychological preemptive strike could be beneficial to anyone.


Research is indicating that this type of mental exercise can lead us past the psychological steps of loving-kindness.  If we naturally begin to understand that other people's reactions towards us, tend to have more to do with them and their inner dramas, the more we can do to improving relationships.  The more naturally loving-kindness comes to us, more purpose and intent can be put to better use.


 

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