Respect Meditations
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8 minutes reflection on Respect
Sit comfortably with a straight back, relaxed hands, arms and shoulders. Keep your eyes closed or half open. Relax your mind. Take 3 deep and relaxed breaths. On the exhale you let all thoughts of where you just came from and where you are going to, leave your mind. Be mindful of your breath. Pay full attention to the sensation of the air passing through your nostrils. Sit like this for 2 minutes.
- Think of a situation where you have had spontaneous respect for another person. For something he or she said or did.
- Remember the situation clearly and observe what your respect did to you in the situation and in the time afterwards. Also observe what your respect did to the other person.
- Realize that there are two sides of the benefit of respect: On one hand you open up for the qualities you respect in others to become part of yourself. On the other hand you make the other feel appreciated for the qualities and thereby encourages to develop them further.
- Rejoice in having created the causes for positive development to take place in yourself and the other.
- Consider that respect is mostly spontaneous. You know a good quality when you meet it. But meeting it can be random if you don’t actively seek it. Developing respect can be done by seeking persons worthy of it.
- Make a resolution that you in the future actively will seek people with qualities. And when you find them you will show them respect and thereby develop positive qualities in yourself and help others to develop their qualities. In this way you will be able to help spreading good qualities and happiness in the world.
--Rasmus 20:56, 6 November 2007 (EST)
