Re: love exercises
Hi Teriyaki, how about using your senses and thinking of something each time you realy love.
Smell....
Is there a smell you adore? A flower, fragrance, damp earth,just sitting down with this and smelling thinking how beautiful this smells and how it makes you feel.
Sight...
Is there a sight you love to look at? It could be the beauty of a particular flower, a painting, a scene outside, the sea, just something you would look at and think ' I love this ' think how it makes you feel.
Taste....
Is there a taste you love? Try it and savour this, take your time with it . How do you feel.?
Sound...
Is there a sound you love to listen to? This could be classical music, heavy rock if that's what you love,someone singing love songs. ( for me I sometimes listen to the ocean waves and all the soft noises included in meditation CDs but recently since buying Elvis Presley's CD ' If I could dream' I just love his warmth in his voice that this stirs more in me than most other sounds.
Find a hobby you love doing. Analyse at the end how much you've loved doing this.How did it make you feel?
You see the problem I have with the thought of groups of people hugging each other is do you know them? Is everyone there just acting out the exercise hoping to feel something from a complete stranger ?
Looking into someone's eyes, are you performing the exercise looking into a strangers eyes hoping to feel something?
Now I'm going to contradict myself here because I have felt this looking into the eyes of my poor lost elderly ladies living with dementia. However this came about because I loved being with them . If I had just walked up to them not knowing them and looked into their eyes I wouldn't have felt what I felt.
One summers day I had spent all day in the garden attending to what needed doing. I was so happy doing this that as I left to come in I stood at the door just looking at the colours and flowers and was so happy with the end result I was just thinking that there was nothing else I could do to make it more perfect and I seemed to loose myself for a few seconds. I can't describe what happened because I don't know but it was as if I had absorbed all of this and lost myself in a kind of semi trance.
So the best advice I could give is to ' Pleasure Your Senses'.
For ever I'll remember.
Dreams are the doorways to the heavens.
Look into your eyes and I see mine.
She is part of your deepest thoughts.
The destination is not the importance, but the journey. What we do here leads us to our destination.
( my soul. )
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