These
exercises were very different for me. I allow myself to become open-minded do
these exercises. During the week I practice listening to these exercises different
times each day and night.
The feelings I encounter when I listen to
these exercises in morning made me feel refresh and ready to start my day. I
was more focus and was able to what was asked of me to do during these
exercises. There were a couples times I listen to these exercises after I
finish doing my capstone work in my other class and I felt as those these
exercises took so much pressure of my mind, I became so relax that I became motionless
and I had a very hard time doing what was asked of me to do. When the exercises
were about to finish I was able to complete the last task that was asked of me
to do, “open my eyes and refocus myself to my surroundings” lol. I continue my classwork
without being tired and feeling like I was under heavy pressure as I was before.
The last two days I did these exercises after having a rough time at work. I
usually do not have rough days at work. But these days were different. When I did
these exercise I was able to relax totally again and became motionless. During
the exercises I had started focusing in on what had happen at my work place and
channeled in on what cause me to have a rough time and I was able to understand
the problem and come up with a solution if this type of problem happen again.
These
exercises are beneficial and very help for the mind to experience an workout to
develop emotion control and to be more stable in an uncontrollable situations. When I completed these exercises I emailed
them to my closest friends to try doing these exercises and be open-minded to
the type exercises they have never done before. Some of my friends like it some
did not…Oh well you can’t please everyone…lol
Subject: Mental Workout
The concept of mental workout is a daily exercise to evolve the
person’s psychospiritual life and to have a clear understanding of the
contemplative practice to develop a progress of expanding the person’s
consciousness and the healing capacity.
There are two types of contemplative practices, loving-kindness
and subtle mind. The Loving-kindness is a practice to teach a person how to
open their hearts to others without self- centeredness, and priming the
person’s mind for further development. The subtle mind is a practice to open
the person mind to reveal the wisdom that is an essential element to heal the
source and drive human flourishing.
The benefits of mental workout to have a complete control over
your mind and learn how to stabilize the person well-being, maintain in a
calm-abiding state of consciousness and unity consciousness. The mental workout
develops the mind to become mature with wisdom and to allow the person to be
peaceful, compassion, and happiness as a whole person.
The two practices, subtle mind and loving-kindness, helps to
“tame and train the mind, open the heart, expand consciousness, and develop the
progress of psychospiritual flourishing which introduce integral health to the
person who has learn through this workout to express more loving-kindness to
others and the wisdom to allow the person to make better decisions concerning
their health needs. (Dacher, 2006, pg 66-68)
