observing, not experiencing.

[Guest guest]

Hey everyone.....I think I may be finally reaching an

observing/watching point during meditation! (YEAH!!!) I've been

reading about how others here get this memories or thoughts and can

just watch them and 'let them go'. There was a string a few months

back about this and some used a term called 'labeling'. I honestly

couldn't understand what you were saying, even with all of the in

depth description. How do you 'watch a memory'? Whenever they would

pop up in my mind during meditation I could feel my self experiencing

the emotions that were originally associated with the memory. And

then get frustrated and 'try' to watch instead and nothing would

ever 'click' for me. But last night something new happened. Memories

started rising, there were two that I remember specifically, and I

didn't react to them. One was the time that my purse was stolen. The

other was my frustration in getting a MD driver's license (long story

involving inter-state paperwork on that one). But this time, as the

memories came, I was 'in' the memory, but indifferent to it. So maybe

that's not what you all have been describing. But in both memories, I

found myself smiling and very non-chalent about them. They didn't

bother me at all. So I was pretty pleased I'm finally making progress

in that area.

 

Christa