Meditation and Visuals

TASTE OF HUMAN FLOURISHING visualization and the Loving Kindness MP3 were my favorite exercises and practice of this course. Both start off with associations of someone you love or who bring you great happiness but the taste of human flourishing goes a bit further and includes special places and experiences to focus on and feel throughout your person. Staying in the moment is important, as is entering the state with an open-heart allowing for loving feelings to consume the entire body, mind and spirit with kindness! The focus of quantifying questions of depth as to smells, feelings, quality-of-mind, and connectedness to the dimensions of unity are asked within to assess and assimilate full enjoyment of experiences. Using your mind to extract feelings and mental pictures is much like pretending and day-dreaming, something I used to do all the time as a child. These exercises remind me of childhood imaginations and fantasies we are trained to forget as adults. It kind of funny that we will be training ourselves to rekindle past loves, wholeness feelings and radiant health experiences to affect our present world and outcomes.

 Loving-kindness asks us to be at peace and be tranquil as well as acknowledge all thoughts that travel across the mind-eye. We are to love each equally, observe them and to unattached ourselves from them.  Stillness, harmony and peace is the natural home of our minds. Welcome it and enjoy! Loving yourself, as a precious being, is paramount and is reflected outwardly towards to world during waken hours. The only hesitation I first felt was taking in suffering of a loved one but once understood this is an act of giving, exhaling out suffering and the lights of health towards the loved one. What a great gift of taking and giving. But the biggest leap is to send our love (taking in suffering and breathing out health, happiness, wholeness) to the world even to ones enemies is powerful in the loving-kindness piece.   

Peace and harmony I sent out to the world. These experiences are gifts. Love and happiness is the state we should live in all our waking hours, to facilitate health, wisdom and wholeness. Once we stop, quiet the minds ramblings, we can see life as wonderful, tranquil and supportive of our needs and feelings. There is comfort there but also vast knowledge to create the life we seek that is wholesome, uplifting and with purpose. This meditation thing shows us our essence. Like any good feeling and adventure, this can and will become habit. These mental exercises followed with great nutrition and physical activity incorporated a total holistic approach to healing that is personal and dynamic. The mind and spiritual development has been forgotten in the biomedical fields. Man has always evolved and will continue to do so, on our quest of supreme knowledge of cause and effects!