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Hi,

Thanks for all your comments. As you said Kaarine, yes, the goal is to eventually be able to carry that awareness we develop during meditation practice over into our daily lives and put it to good use there and try and become more aware of what we are thinking and feeling on a moment-to-moment basis. Yes, that is the goal! I have to admit that I’ve not been very good at disciplining myself with regard to practice over the years, but I’m hoping to stick at it a bit better this time. I’m realizing the benefits and the importance of it more and more as the years are passing, and its really good to have found this community to share stuff with and just to offer one another support and encouragement along the way. I’ve got so much to learn but I’m a willing student!

What you were explaining Element about this connection between our unhappy memories and feelings which we may experience in the present day, and how they quite often originate from a much earlier instance of being hurt and how we’ve stored that painful ‘feeling’ away in our subconscious and it gets reactivated somehow by something we are thinking about or something which is said, I found that very interesting.

You all give me plenty to think about! My poor brain gets tired! Only joking…well not really!

Aasha