Subtle Mind vs Loving Kindness

I honestly have a fairly easy time with both of the practices. I think the subtle mind one may have been a little more helpful but I did enjoy both. I like having the different kinds to change it up a little bit. They do work for me in relaxing and really focusing on what is at hand. I get really easily distracted in life and I think these mental exercises will slowly help with that. I again like the ocean sounds (although it does tend to make me sleepy) they are very calming and relaxing to me. I could listen to the sounds of the waves alone and just pretend I was at a beach. I think that when I practice these more and get better at being able to get the mental chatter out and focus on my thought at hand it will come in handy throughout all aspects of my life.

Spiritual and physical wellness go hand and hand when it comes to the mind I can catch myself trying to talk myself out of feeling something bad physically. I have had times where I get dizzy or light headed and I just breath and talk myself out of it and it really has worked for me. I also have a little anxiety that I feel mental practice helps with and by being able to control that it will probably help with blood pressure, heart disease, stress etc.

I like these exercises a lot and am keeping them saved on my computer so when class is over I can still go back to using them.

Love and Kindness

              Well I must be honest in the sense that I did fall asleep during this exercise towards the end but I did get a good listen to it. I have been really sick lately so really I can fall asleep anywhere it seems, that and along with a baby up all night : )  I would really recommend this to others and I have already recommended that my husband give it a try. I have told him since we tried the very first exercise to try them. It really just gives you a sense of peace and love. I can honestly say that today was a super busy day (I listened to it last night) and I want to say it was the reasoning behind my energy and awesome mood that I had all day! Any little things in life that might stress you out just seem to float away. I liked in the exercise when it said to open your heart and let any good feelings and emotions in. I pictured in my head almost a waterfall into my heart that is open. Allowing all good in and all negative and bad out. As I pictured that I got a sense of calm and like I said, I still felt it today.

                Mental workout to me means really focusing on what you are thinking and feeling. As humans we don’t often enough look into how we are feeling. We may think about how we feel physically, tired, achy and so on, but we don’t block those physical feelings out and focus on how we feel inside mentally. Letting go of the day and focusing on that alone can really give you an overall sense of peace. Since I did this exercise before bed last night I feel like it really stuck with me when I went to sleep. If for that reason it worked so well I think that implementing it into my nightly routine could be beneficial. Not to mention it obviously relaxed me making me drift off at the end : ) 

Unit 3 - The Mind Body Connection

I would say that my physical wellbeing would be at an 8, my spiritual well being at a 7 and my psychological being at a 6. I am a pretty physically healthy person, I like to work out (although lately I have to admit I haven’t done it as much, not having enough time…) Spiritually I think that I am really connected with my inner self and I actually do a lot of spiritual thinking to myself. I commute to work and I am always talking to myself (in my head of course) as I am driving and it is actually kind of great. Psychologically I think I am pretty good but could be a little better. I can sometimes get down on myself about the littlest things and forget to focus on what is important in life like my family. I stress too much over little things at work and at school but I need to remember and think to myself that I am doing the best I can and that it is going actually really well.

                I would like to be able to one day just be totally ok with myself and my life and not just say that I am but really truly feel it. A honest to gosh true feeling of happiness where I can be honest with myself and learn how to just relax and let go of things both outside and in.

                I think that if I were to keep doing meditation exercises I could continue to learn how to relax my body and my brain a little better. That way when I am stressing over little things in life I can tell myself to chill out and perhaps just slip into my own meditation right then and there nipping that negativity in the butt.

                This exercise was great like the other one. Again I was already in my comfy clothes and in a comfy spot. I have to admit that my baby was next to me so I was AS relaxed as the other one but all in all still a pretty good outcome of total mind and body relaxation. The whole colors thing was kind of interesting as well. 

Welcome

Hello Class,

I hope that I am doing all of this correctly. I am very new to this blogging stuff but am looking forward to it all (since it does seem to be a new hype) now I can get in on all the new happenings going on in the world : )
I actually enjoy doing practices like the Journey on Relaxation exercise. I can very easily get into these things and hope we will do more as assignments, I mean probably the best assignment to do.

This exercise was awesome and I learned a lot from it even. I never knew that as our body is at a state of rest that 80% of your blood supply resides in your abdominal cavity. This is great because before the exercise I had a horrible headache due to being so tense. I also have TMJ so my jaw tends to clench and get really sore which causes the headaches. I was able to relax my whole body and get rid of my headache. I am going to make my husband try this as well as he always has sore shoulders and back