Saturday, December 17, 2011
unit 2 my first blog ever!
Hello everyone. Like my title states, this is the first blog I have ever written. I'm not sure if one could mess it up as I think blogging is just an electronic journal of ones thoughts. Welcome statement....done. Now onto the reflective statement. I'm sure this is so that others will respond or entice them to return to my blog. Lets see if I can come up with something profound from the exercise that we all had to participate in. This is not profound but rather an observation. I felt as if I was in a yoga class. I am not sure how many of you have done yoga but lying down in a comfortable position trying to calmly tune yourself to the universe is difficult if you do not do it on a regular bases. This was to be expected as I had read about training your mind in our Intergral Health text book and by personally experiencing it. It should be obvious to you, the readers, that my arms and hands did not feel warm nor did I feel the blood moving from my stomach. I wonder if anyone who is a novice experience this?
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Hello Jenfusicous,
ReplyDeleteI am definately a novice when it comes tho mind-body exercises and experiences. It took me over thirty minutes and four times through the exercise before I started to feel what I think the man was wanting us to achieve. My experience was one of absolute relaxation and peacefullness. These modalities and perspectives a quite new to me so I am really trying to grasp these experiences in order to draw there meaning.
The exercise reminded me of yoga, too: it was like an uber-detailed script for lying in savasana. I never get into the physiology with students, but I do talk about turning attention to one body part at a time and allowing the muscles to let go of tension and "melt into the floor." Is corpse/absorption pose the same one you were thinking of?
ReplyDelete-Rheyn
I have done some of these types of exercises previously in one of my classes. It still is difficult for me to get myself to relax. My life is always at full speed. Not that I want it that way, it just happens. So when I doing one of these exercises I struggle with getting my mind to relax, not so much the body. When I stop for a while my body just wants to go to sleep. My mind, on the other hand, is always in full motion. I notice that I often dream about what is happening currently with my life. That's bad that I can't even relax while I sleep. Oh well, I'll keep working on it.
ReplyDeleteHi Jen:
ReplyDeleteIt is a challenge sometimes, and it can be especially difficult at first. Ultimately it's a skill like any other and the more you practice it the better you can get. I did feel what the narrator was describing, and I actually felt it before he told us what we should be feeling. However, I've also been practicing techniques like this for a little while. My spiritual practices involve meditation and the holotropic states of consciousness described in the essay by Grof, so while I wouldn't call myself an expert I'm also not a novice. But I've been there! If you want it to work for you, keep trying!