As a current empty-nester, I’ve been having some previous parenting recollections pop up that weren’t my greatest hour. Really “pop up” isn’t the precise phrase, as a result of it implies that they shortly depart. As an alternative, I feel they’ve been sticking round within the background, hovering within the shadows, perhaps even haunting me a bit. Yikes!
When taking the time to actually really feel into these hovering recollections, I understand they carry emotions of weak, insufficient, and ashamed.
One kind of meditation that helps detach previous recollections is Thought Remark Meditation. As an alternative of letting that reminiscence hover round within the shadows of your thoughts, you think about a blue sky that’s stuffed with every kind of ideas and recollections like clouds. There’s a lifetime of thought/reminiscence clouds up there, some good and a few dangerous, however in your creativeness all of them look alike as a result of all of them make up you. As you meditate on the sky and the clouds, discover one in every of your ideas/recollections for a second after which let that cloud cross by. Discover one other thought/reminiscence and let it cross by.
Discover if a specific thought/reminiscence cloud sticks round for a bit. Chances are you’ll have to repeat a mantra phrase earlier than that cloud can drift on. Perhaps one thing you’ll lovingly inform an excellent pal in the event that they have been feeling haunted by a reminiscence. Perhaps one thing like, “you realized from that second” or “even then, you have been sufficient”. Repeat this till the thought/reminiscence drifts on.
This meditation may be performed anytime you discover that reminiscence hovering round. Letting go isn’t a catch-phrase, it’s a course of.
Till subsequent time,
Laura
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