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.
I really enjoyed the Meeting Aesclepius exercise because it made me really take in the importance of my family and friends. I know my family and friends are important but this exercise surfaced the reasons why. Breathing and focusing on their love and kindness. Having a focus point of important people in my life essentially makes me more aware of how needed and important everyone in my life is and to not take that life for granted. In understanding this concept we can achieve a holistic health-an equal balance of physical, psychological and spiritual health. I also enjoyed meditation throughout this course and in seminar as well. It really helps me to calm my mind and really find what my inner strengths are. With meditation, the busy thoughts of the day diminish and are replaced with peace, calmness and happiness. I find if I take specific times throughout the day to reflect on myself and my surroundings, I am less stressful and less affected by silly things that before would have otherwise bothered me. I am implementing both these processes simultaneously because as I meditate I am going through the Meeting Aesclepius exercise. I really see the difference in my mood on a daily basis because of these exercises. I wake up feeling refreshed and energized. I feel ready to start the day rather than dread it. I try to do these exercises throughout the day at work-especially on my lunch break, as well as when I get home to relax my mind and release any tension the day has brought my way. In doing these exercises I am fostering my health and wellness everyday and hope to help others achieve theirs as well through the knowledge I have obtained.
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Hi Michele - Reading your blog, I can see that your are learning and growing within your journey to integral health. It is clear that the meditation practices, concepts, and the core priorities in life are being found everyday in the new ways of thinking and approaching your day. Recognizing the calm state the meditation practices put us in will only foster our will to continue with this path even when this course is over. My favorite things we've learned are knowing that we can train our minds, and with daily practice we are sure to grasp the main goals in life....sustained health, happiness, and wholeness. I have enjoyed your blogs each week and encourage you to keep up this great pace to a life of loving-kindness. :) Katie
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