Thank you all for your comments! _/|\_
This past week I started doing metta bhavana at work. What happened first was a couple of days of wildness. It was so busy and full of challenging vaci sankhara situations, is was crazy intense. Then yesterday after a calming meditation just before leaving for work, the storm ended for me. I noticed others running around still crazy busy, gossiping, etc., but it wasn’t effecting me. Kind of like being in the ‘eye of hurricane’ just watching the storm swirl all around, but being strangely calm.
And as a bonus starting next week, I’m being trained in another department where I’ll have very little interaction with those committing the most vaci sankhara.
With the samma vayama (effort) put forth change happened in the mind. The external change will take longer as I move into a new role, but I don’t think it will much matter as long as I stay in the ‘eye’.
Another thing I noticed is the law of attraction in action. Not only my boss, but others (some new hires as well) have interests around conscious moral living. Just shows how powerful our thinking can be. Use it with pannā and watch your sansāra change before your very eyes.
With metta,
Donna :)