Mindfulness Meditation

I am engaging in this form of contemplative practice because the subject of forgiveness is enormously complex because it depends on what type of area of forgiveness you are focusing on and in my case I am focusing on forgiving others when they offend and/or hurt my feelings. The way I plan to cultivate forgiveness is to practice mindfulness and meditation. I will do this three times a week for about nine minutes, to a guide meditation recording called “Mindfulness Meditation to help relieve Anxiety and Stress” by WiseMindbody. Through doing this I will inwardly pause and become very aware of where I am emotionally and physically. I will do this in a way that doesn’t cast valued judgement on my experience but try to understand the whole situation …show more content…
So far I have stuck to the time line and I meditate three times a week for nine minutes practicing this form of mindfulness meditation has allowed me to engage in “Letting Go”. “Letting Go” is an act by which you release your need to control every situation, person, place or thing in order to ensure that your sanity and safety is not threatened (James J. Messina). Another area that has improved os my patiance level with others in highly stressful situations . I have become a bit more understanding in conversation during these stressful interactions as …show more content…
I choose this because I feel it directly coincides with my first action plan Mindfulness meditation . Deep listening is a form of practice where I use rational active listening. I will engage in this plan by: deeply listening as a way of not just listening to someone speak by really hearing them in a way in which I am fully present with what is happening in the moment without trying to control it or judge it. I will let go of inner clamoring and my usual assumptions and listen with respect for precisely what is being said. I will do this as often as i can but specifically when I'm in a situation where I am experiencing stress due to others. However, because i don't know how often i will be in situation where Im stressed during a conversation an example of me using deep listening would be a time me and my boyfriend got into a passionate disscussion about him cleaning up behind himself. However, in this disscussion we were not yelling and saying mean things. And i believe it was because I truly stopped and listened to his reasoning for his action and I return gained a better understanding of the situation. We then came to the conclusion that his schedule had been very busy and he simply forgot to pick up his mess. Therefore, because deep listening has made several of the disscussion not only me and my boyfriend and I have had go so much more smoothly but also other conversation with friends I see no need