What we shared was really interesting.
How about we just jot a few words down as responses to this post?
*** What said was, I would be so delighted if I could emerge having had experiences and understandings that led me to look forward to meditation and to savor its memories.
What else?
I am open to anything and all things that may come of this, and as someone said in class, I don't want to mold the experience into something before it happens.
ReplyDeleteI hope that post-meditation me will learn some valuable lessons from the experience!
I would love to find myself able to recognize all the things in my mind that can be boiled down to some kind of fear and learn to let them go. I believe a lot of my inner conflicts are rooted in fear of loss, fear of disappointment and fear of not living my life 'right'. In brief moments, I am fully aware of a state where such fears don't, or at least don't need to, exist and I feel peaceful. Post-meditation project I hope to be more intuitive as to when and how to get out of my own way.
ReplyDeletePost meditation will hopefully bring some sort of balance to my mind and spirit. I feel like when you are able to balance this aspect of your life, you can make anything happen in your surrounding world... you can go forth fearlessly knowing that anything you commit yourself to will be rewarding and illuminating.
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping to find a higher level of trust and comfort in myself. I think one of my hindrances in my attempts at meditation is a lack of faith in myself or in my abilities to attain the insurmountable goals I set for myself. Learning to trust myself, as well as give myself a break every now and then, would be quite something.
ReplyDeleteMy stated goal through developing a meditation practice was to gain energy and focus. However, as I think further, it occurs to me that all I really want to do is to be able to live in my body every moment without becoming unnecessarily attached to that living... I had this wonderful experience of being totally present in what felt like every cell for about five minutes during my yoga practice this morning... so that's (part of) what I want. This does, of course, include the goals of focus and energy, but this wanting to be present every moment feels less illusory than those nebulous ideas. Here's intending!
ReplyDeleteThrough this "meditation project" I hope that I can observe a change in the way I handle everyday situations. If asked, my friends would agree that I am a very sensitive person, sometimes to a fault from my perspective. That said, I sometimes get overly emotional about situations by creating situations in my head that are skewed from actual reality. I also tend to absorb other people's emotions like a sponge - both positive and negative. I hope that meditation can help keep me grounded and enable me to see the true reality, free from emotion.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I am curious to find out whether mediation can help channel ESP experiences. In the past, I have found the opposite to be the case, as my experiences tend to happen during periods of heightened awareness (during finals, for example). We will see what happens!