Unit 6 Experience

Well my experience with the Universal Loving-Kindness went really well. I don't believe that I lasted 10 whole mins. but close enough to get the effects. I found that this practice was easy for because I have a mind set to please everyone in the first place. However with that said we all have bad days from here or there and this helped me to realize that I must love all the time to better myself. It is very powerful in helping me to expand my heart alot.

I found that the areas in my life that need the most attention is first and foremost myself. I do not take care of myself as far as my health. I tend to put all before me kids, husband, job, and family. I tend to make them a priority before my health. Now with saying that I find that school is one thing that I am doing for myself and that is great, but if I am not healthy how will I ever be able to do anything with the knowledge that I have gained. I found this exercise really helpful in preparing my mind to become healthy and if I continue to practices it, it will help me to constantly think of myself and my health.

Unit 5 Project

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Unit 5 - Practice 2

Again I found this particular meditation quite difficult. I can tell that it is going to take my mind some training to learn to control my thoughts. However with that said I have learned that if I focus on the breathing methods I tend to do better. I found that reading the reading for this week with the hints and points from Dasher really help such as; using the breath as a focal point - I tend to use the rising and falling of my chest in the breathing cycle. I also found that this week I did my practice right before I went to bed when everything was quite and I was able to relax. I found this went better than trying to do it on my lunch break.

I feel that in my life I have impulses that I have to learn to control. I want to do so much better but I keep slipping back into my same routine. I was told the other day that I have to loose weight or I will have a lot of health problems to come. I need to take these practices to learn how to control my impulses as well. I found that these are difficult but there is nothing easy.

Getting Started ~ Love Kindness Exercise

I simply found that it was not a difficult exercise to do, but just finding the time to do it. I also find it so hard to find myself sitting in silence and not letting my mind wonder but just to study on the exercise at hand. I always find myself thinking about something else.

With the love and kindness on my mind thinking about that one person that I LOVE so much, I find myself feeling that I am not loving everyone the same. I find that I love my children the most, but then I think what about my spouse, my parents, my grandparents, and so forth and so on. But I guess each day if I took my 15 minutes I could take each on of these individuals with my love for them and put it back on myself.

I definitely feel that this is a great exercise for everyone! It is so important to love ourselves as we do everyone else. The hard part is allowing ourselves to do this, that is the hard part.

Basically a mental workout is good for your health and well-being, you want to make the brain work and think. It is to expand our consciousness and how our brain can heal our bodies.