Hello All,
I want to share about an exciting new development in my process, exciting for me anyway. It started at the AYP Retreat at Mench Mill, Pennsylvania when Katrine introduced us to an interpersonal meditation technique called Insight Dialog (the British spelling is "Dialogue"). It involves deep listening to another person without interruption and with space allowed for pauses. There is more to it than that, but that is a start. The method is described clearly on the web page here:
http://www.metta.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=37I brought the technique home and introduced it to some friends. Today, my wife and I got together with another couple for the second in a series of meetings specifically to learn and practice insight dialog. For me it is, among other things, a way of moving toward creating trusting relationships that are close, but with with reduced anxiety.
Later in the evening, I went to a dinner party and without consciously doing any insight dialog techniques, I found I was surprisingly, by my standards, non-anxious, and socially engaged. I suspect that quality of experience was in part the fruit of the practices earlier today.
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