This week our exercise was to listen to "Meeting Aesclepius", which is a guided meditation involving a Spirit Guide, so to speak. We were to envision another person and focus our loving kindness on this person. Eventually, we were asked to picture a white light radiating out of our forehead, into the forehead of this person, transferring and purifying our thoughts and feelings. The beginning of the exercise likened our thoughts to a rushing stream, that would hopefully progress into a lazy river. I really liked this analogy, and appreciated the sounds of waves and the relaxing music. To me, this was more helpful than the image of the guide. I found it distracting at first to try to visualize this person. I was focusing too much on features and who this person might be to grasp the point of the visualization. I can see how this would be helpful, but again this will take practice for me, and is probably something that I should do before bed, rather than right before I try to write a post.
The saying, "One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself" is to me a very wise, very true statement. Basically it means that a person cannot guide another person in a direction or to a place that they have not been, because they would have no real experience or idea what they were guiding another towards. It's pretty self-explanatory. I also loved the saying that went along with it, "Having a map of Hawaii is not like actually being there."...It's so true. If a person doesn't experience things first-hand, it would be very difficult to guide someone else there...whether that be physically, spiritually, emotionally, etc.
This journey is teaching me that cherishing others, and treating them with loving kindness, will help in the healing process and also lead me towards my goal of integral health.
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