Meditation & Friendship

After meditating I felt pretty relaxed. I was once part of a group that practiced yoga and meditation for like 5 hours a day for a week. I found it extremely beneficial. It’s very hard to keep up on it though, but it was so cleansing. I think if given the chance again to have a week retreat of meditation and yoga I would take it because how I felt afterwards. I wish I could explain it better. We did this practice that released these built up emotions. While meditating people became angry and frustrated and upset. We got in touch with this bad feeling and then, through meditation, those feelings dissipated.  After finishing this certain technique there was just a lightness. Our bodies were released of all these negative energies and it was truly amazing how wonderful it felt afterwards.

 

I would say I have all 3 relationships. The utilitarian, and pleasure are easily defined but I feel that I have a friendship of virtue with my best friend from home. There’s such a deep understanding and appreciation between the two of us. No matter what decision either of us makes, the other will always be supportive. Along with that friendship I think that another friendship could possible grow into a friendship of virtue. There’s an understanding between us but there’s not a commitment on either of our parts (yet). Without that commitment though, it won’t be able to grow into a friendship of virtue. Multiple factors contribute to why there’s no commitment. They’re simple factors that can be overcome. Once these factors are overcome and a commitment is established, we’ll be able to have a friendship of virtue.