Unit 4 (late)

Unit 4 (late)

I already try to incorporate meditation into my daily routine.  It doesn't always happen because I am forever doing a hundred things at one time it seems.  My life is an ebb and flow, because it rotates around our construction drilling business.  In the drilling business it is either feast or famine, but never consistent.  So there are times that I am trying to manage the office of the drilling company, manage my clothing boutique, manage my household, be a wife, be a mother, be a friend, be a student, volunteer for my husbands foundation (www.vettix.org) and design jewelery, clothing and unique pieces of leather.  Some days things just flow and I can devote time to everything on my list.  Other days it is chaos from the time I get up until I pass out from exhaustion.  I am making head way in my goal of making more time for my spiritual health and Wicca by dedicating one room in our house as "my" room where I can escape.  In this room I feel free, relieved, and at peace.  This is where I try to start my day and where I like to end my day if at all possible.  The problem is that once I get into "my" room I don't want to leave. 

Because I have practiced meditation, the Loving-Kindness exercise was just another technique for opening my heart and embracing myself and all of life.  I did really feel a sense of openness, compassion and love when I expanded my focus beyond those who reside in my life and to those beyond who are suffering right now.  It seems that are world is full of people who have lost hope and I have so much compassion for them.  I would definately recommend this practice to others because I truly believe that the practice of Loving-Kindness does open up your heart and allow emotions to be felt that are often pushed aside.