Mindfulness activity presented by the italian team, Erasmus Happy people will change the world

1. EMBRACE( ocuddle) MEDITATION
It’s commonly known that embracing may calm down our fear
sand,in the mean time, relieve our loneliness feelings. As a matter
of fact, in our every day life, each time we embrace somebody, we
do practice meditation.
It’s very important to pay attention to the sensations that an
embrace may offer; it’s a warm, physical and inneract(o gesture).
Let’s start our meditation sitting down in a circle, taking three deep
breathings ,after the bell ring
1) Recognize the people close to us
2) Bow down to the other person, so to recognize his/her
presence
3) Prepare yourself to the embrace
4) Go near the other person, focusing on breathing. Put your
hand ,gently, on his/her shoulder. The embrace should last the
time needed forth reebreathings: the first one is for ourselves,
just to concentrate ; the second one should honour the other
person; the third one should take us to focus on the sensation
of happiness and gratitude encouraged by this special moment
of deep sharing.
5) Close with gratitude.
6) Close this experience with a second bow, to show your
gratitude to the other person
This practice will take our life to an higher level,in particular in
our every day society where it’s so hard to interact. That’s
whyit’s important to develop consciousness working for good
human relationships realizing that,if somebody causesus a lot of
pain, it’s because of his/herown pain! On the contrary, if we
realize that a person in pain needs help and not punishment, we
will completely change our point of view.
If we start sarin this compassion feeling, whichis the cure of
anger, we will be able to stop both our sufference and his/her
strying to help somebody just …embracing him/her.