My current life assessment

Loving kindness meditation is a great tool for replacing negative feelings in one’s life with positive emotions. Whether an individual realizes it or not, they possess loving kindness within themselves. In order to replace negative emotions with positive emotions one must first learn to harness the loving kindness within themselves. I always tell people to imagine a blissful sleeping newborn baby or puppy, to acknowledge the love and kindness they may feel for this newborn or puppy. Then to harness this feeling that lives with themselves to replace negative emotions in time of need. 

I have been utilizing loving kindness when I get migraines because if I practice loving kindness my headache lessens. This practice is sometimes difficult to achieve when my brain hurts really bad but will always lessen the pain. Even if it is just a little bit of ease, it is enough to help. Because of my constant migraines, life has been very trialing lately but meditation helps. I have slacked on my work outs and social life because of the daze and fatigue caused by my migraines. When assessing my life I feel I am lacking in these areas and I am trying to figure out how to strengthen these aspects of my life without overdoing it physically. I can only do so much or my condition worsens. 

I have decided that I need to replace my extreme hiking routine with light hiking activities. So instead of giving it up completely I simply need to partake in shorter less strenuous hikes. I also have starting replacing my weightlifting with tia chi and yoga to insure that I still partake in daily exercise. There is not too much I can do about my social life currently because I never know when my migraines are going to strike. I will however invite my friends on my short hikes so I can benefit from walking in nature and socializing at the same time.