1. Review the exercises and practice sessions you have completed in this course. (Loving Kindness, Subtle mind, Visualization, meditation etc.) Choose two practices that you have determined to be most beneficial. How can you implement these practices in your personal life to foster “mental fitness”? Provide specific examples.
The two practices that were the most beneficial for me are Meeting Asclepius and Loving Kindness. As stated in previous posts, I really need to work on my mind chatter. I really feel loving kindness, because it’s a part of my everyday charter of who I am. I really feel that there’s not benefit at all being mean to others for one thing, and being mean to others not only belittle you, but it also define the type of person you are. Like in our past assignments I have also mentioned that no one have ever promised us this road of life was going to be easy for anyone of us so sometimes you just have to deal with the cards that dealt to us, and just think about it if we never go through anything we would never learn life learned lessons that it takes to learn our inner selves.
The second practice I really feel that was beneficial to me was Meeting Asclepius. Because while I was in quietness listening to the exercise allowed me the opportunity to really focus on some of the good times That I missed having with my stepfather, and it also reminded me of the father and son bond that me and him had. These are something that I really tried my hardest sense he passed away to not think about so much. So now sense we been doing this class it’s ok to mourn because without it the healing process can’t begin. My step father passed away in 2005 and this whole time I been trying to be strong for my mother and my two sisters, and I never took the time to really get strong for myself.
The way that I can implement both of these practices in my own life is by implementing a routine to do these exercise more, because loving kindness helps me to understand more about myself and who my inner self is, and Meeting Asclepius not only do this practice helping me with my healing process with the loss of my stepfather, but it even brought me closer to him by bringing back some of the member able times that we had while he was yet still living.
Mental fitness can help me with mind chatter, and with my physical conditions, and with helping me to more understanding about the spiritual side of all of this and how important it is to have.
Scottie,
ReplyDeleteI loved that you have been working on you "mind chatter" since we so regularly overlook this aspect because it is "normal." It is a great way of looking at what we are allowing to over consume our life when it is something not necessary and taking away from positive energy. Finding a balance between your mental, physical and spiritual I believe will help you overall reach the calm, centered life you are looking for and I am glad these exercises have helped you in your personal life!