Eleanor beginning her sand mandala Today was the first day of our mindfulness final projects, which made it a very nerve-racking day for some! For these projects, we lead a meditation on a specific topic while also presenting research and reflecting on that topic. Today, three students presented their topics, with Everest presenting first. The class wrote down their reflections in their journals after Everests guided meditation Everest’s aimed to teach us about the importance of acceptance when it comes to dealing with our emotions and within mindfulness. We learned about how accepting an emotion and simply sitting with it can be an incredibly effective way of dealing with it. Although it may seem counterintuitive, when we accept what we’re feeling and allow ourselves to feel it, we manage emotions much better. Personally, I find this to be very true, and Everest’s presentation further convinced me to keep acceptance at the forefront of how I manage emotion. The ...
On our final day of the Get Grounded by Training the Brain A-Term, we started the day off by naming our favorite anchors that we use to get grounded when we are practicing meditation or just in need of getting out of our head. We then proceeded to meditate with our anchors in mind, using them so that we don’t get swept away by our racing thoughts. After we had discussed how this meditation was for us, Emilio presented his final project to the class, which was a helpful meditation that focused on love and compassion regarding racism and bias. Next, we moved into our art section, where we reflected on our mandalas and the meaning of them and their different parts before having the dissolution ceremony for them. While destroying something you spent time and energy on might sound odd, this practice is a way to show that everything is temporary and that anything you get attached to will eventually come to pass and you need to learn to let things that you love go. The dissolution cerem...
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