Comparing the exercise of Loving Kindness and Subtle Mind was somewhat difficult to do. In the loving Kindness track I had to embrace a loved one in need and a whole bunch of feeling and thoughts of hopelessness ran across my mind, because I feel I have done every thing I could possible do to support them, but I am very drained. On the other hand when listening to subtle mind track is was teaching me how to let go of the grasping thoughts of the loved one I had in mind. Its amazing to me how your thoughts can get the best of you even if you think you have control of them. You end up playing attentions to the wrong things you have no control over. I see this is going to take sometime to master this technique of maintaining a calm and still mind in a quite place. Learning how to let go of those gripping thoughts, feeling, and mental images while paying attention to the mental watch of all its movement is not an easy task to control, especially overnight.
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