BEING WHOLE - Body Like a Mountain, Heart Like the Ocean, Mind Like the Sky
Step 6 (days 1-3). Being Whole - body like a mountain, heart like the ocean, mind like the sky
Introduction
- This week build on the previous two steps.
- In step four: learned to soften towards experience of pain.
- In step five: learned to seek out the pleasant.
- This step: cultivate broad awareness that is stable, kind and confident.
- Previous stages close-up lens of awareness.
- Now pulling back to wide-angle perspective - a 'bigger container' of awareness.
- Rest within flow - pleasant and unpleasant experiences like waves on ocean.
- Be like a yacht, rather than a dinghy!
- Let go of automatically resisting the unpleasant and grasping on to pleasant, which leads to secondary suffering.
- Instead enjoy the depth and breadth of experience, just as it is.
- Bathe all experience in a kind and warm breath of well-wishing towards ourselves.
Step 6 (days 4-6). Being Whole - body like a mountain, heart like the ocean, mind like the sky
Going deeper
- How are you getting on with cultivating self-compassion?
- Can overcome the 'billiard ball' approach to life, bouncing reactively off experience.
- Even-mindedness is more stable and life-affirming.
- Acknowledge things before we react and choose helpful response.
- Acceptance is beautiful but not the same as passive resignation or indifference.
- It's active - wholeheartedly engaging with experience.
- As you accept you will change. Gradually your life will change for the better!
- Can guide flow of change towards how we most want to live.
- Can live in harmony with things - turn life from struggle and unease, to …
- … A life flavoured by calm, initiative and confidence!
Mindfulness in Daily Life exercise
Step 6 Days 1-3
Spend 5 minutes a day listening to sounds. If have impaired hearing do same exercise with another sense: taste, touch, sight or smell. Continue to experiment with timer and baseline diaries.
Mindfulness in Daily Life exercise
Step 6 Days 4-6
Spend 5 minutes a day looking at things around you. If have impaired sight do same exercise with another sense: taste, touch, hearing or smell. Continue to experiment with timer and baseline diaries.
Monday - 19/05/2014
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Tuesday - 20/05/2014
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Wednesday - 21/05/2014
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Thursday - 22/05/2014
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Friday - 23/05/2014
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Saturday - 24/05/2014
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Sunday - 25/05/2014
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Sorry ;) HAD A REALLY BAD WEEK, HEALTH WISE ...
