Hey Guys,
So I just listened to the love and kindness exercise. It actually took me awhile to be able to relax. I have so much going on in my head lately that it was hard to let it all go for a few minutes and just focus on what the speaker was saying. Towards the end, it actually kind of made me sad that I really couldn't take away all the pain from a loved one and replace it with love, wellness, and kindness. I mentally did it, but physically I wish I could.
This week I tried to be kinder to people. Normally when someone is rude to my, I answer back to them sarcastically. The last few days, I surprisingly to myself and to others, I answered people with something nice. I think it actually dumbfounded a couple of people. Maybe by me showing kindness to a stranger, they then in return showed it to another strange. Kind of like the ripple effect. That what I would like to think happened at least :)
A "mental workout" is what it sounds like, a work out for the mind. It physically good for the body to work out just as it is mentally good for the mind to work out. We can do this by doing exercises that better ourselves, such as the loving kindness exercise we had to do this week. When we work out mentally, we can rid our minds of anger, resentment, fear, and all those negative feelings that we like to hang on to. It can only make us better, stronger, and more healthy all around.
Thanks for reading! Until next week....
-Megan
when doing this exercise i couldnt find myself to really go into the state they were asking for believe because Im not that type of emotional person and also dont like making myself go into that way of thinking and feeling. I agree that the mind should be exercised as often as the body is but it is difficult at times to build this aspect due to dealing with so many things on a day to day basis which I believe people dont have the mind strength to be willing to work exercising their mental state as they do their bodies. thanks for posting in this weeks discussion have a nice day
ReplyDeleteHello Megan!
ReplyDeleteIt was quite difficult for me to be able to do this exercise, but for several reasons. What I know that I needed to do was be within a completely quiet environment and hear the exercise words by thsemselves; I would then envision the entire processes at first occuring out of body, and then afterwards envision them occuring within. Repeating this process wasn't as difficult afterwards because I was able to compare the exercise to something that I have done before called "Meditative Healing". The part about using your heart as a funnel for the negative energy is the only thing that really struck me as odd and made me wonder a lot; I had to change that part completely because of my own beliefs, however I was still able to achieve the same goal as the exercise required. Is there anything you had to change, or would have changed? See you next week!
Maybe part of the reason I have never liked this kind of exercise (the loving-kindness one) is that you can’t mentally imagine someone’s pain away.
ReplyDeleteIn response to your comments about being nicer to rude people – it made me smile because I am kind of the opposite. I won’t say the sarcastic reply going through my head to most people so when I do they are, as you said, dumbfounded.
I think it was Mark Twain said something along the line of “Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” I think you could substitute a lot of behaviors and this quote would still be true.