Meditation Assignment
Tuan Anh Nguyen
PSY 101 07 – General Psychology
Instructor: Paul Sullivan
Date Due: 3/24/2015
General Psychology
Meditation Assignment
Instructions:
Please log onto the links following the names of each meditation.
Download or stream the following three meditations. Your homework assignment is to practice each of these meditations at least one time and write a ONE paragraph reaction explaining your experience and thoughts about the meditation. Do not do them all on day. Do them on at least 3 different days. Please use this document to write your reaction, insert your paragraph after each number below and print it out and bring it to class on due date on the syllabus
#1. Mindfulness of Breathing http://palousemindfulness.com/disks/sittingmeditation20min.html (please type your reaction for this meditation below this line)
I used the third sitting meditation position as figure C according to Jon Kabat-Zinn for my practice of mindfulness of breathing. At the beginning, it was hard to control moving of body even though I felt that I could control it. When my body-parts were able to be controlled, my thoughts about living things, or love ones, were flying back and forth in my mind. The interested things are that I felt I could catch my thoughts, and I knew that I was brought into another world. However, it was ended right after I tried to enjoy that world, and brought me to the present. Otherwise, after few times practicing, I felt I did not to enforce myself to adjust moving, to control my mind to the peaceful world; it just came in and came out as long as my breath in and out. All in all, I experienced a flat world, in which there is no noise, disorder, or competition but with peace, safe, and healthy.
#2. Loving-Kindness for Beginners http://mindfulselfcompassion.org/meditations_downloads.php (please type your reaction for this meditation below this line)
The practice of meditation called loving-kindness for beginner according to Christopher Germer, PhD,
PSY 101 07 – General Psychology
Instructor: Paul Sullivan
Date Due: 3/24/2015
General Psychology
Meditation Assignment
Instructions:
Please log onto the links following the names of each meditation.
Download or stream the following three meditations. Your homework assignment is to practice each of these meditations at least one time and write a ONE paragraph reaction explaining your experience and thoughts about the meditation. Do not do them all on day. Do them on at least 3 different days. Please use this document to write your reaction, insert your paragraph after each number below and print it out and bring it to class on due date on the syllabus
#1. Mindfulness of Breathing http://palousemindfulness.com/disks/sittingmeditation20min.html (please type your reaction for this meditation below this line)
I used the third sitting meditation position as figure C according to Jon Kabat-Zinn for my practice of mindfulness of breathing. At the beginning, it was hard to control moving of body even though I felt that I could control it. When my body-parts were able to be controlled, my thoughts about living things, or love ones, were flying back and forth in my mind. The interested things are that I felt I could catch my thoughts, and I knew that I was brought into another world. However, it was ended right after I tried to enjoy that world, and brought me to the present. Otherwise, after few times practicing, I felt I did not to enforce myself to adjust moving, to control my mind to the peaceful world; it just came in and came out as long as my breath in and out. All in all, I experienced a flat world, in which there is no noise, disorder, or competition but with peace, safe, and healthy.
#2. Loving-Kindness for Beginners http://mindfulselfcompassion.org/meditations_downloads.php (please type your reaction for this meditation below this line)
The practice of meditation called loving-kindness for beginner according to Christopher Germer, PhD,