Directions for your Blog:
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.
A christian form of loving-kindness and compassion practice starts with the mind. The mind can observe and let the crazy stresses of life take over, at which point one needs to realize it is regroup time, slow down, or stop time.
Visualize a different way. Practice a fun visualization exercise to get the mind off problems and current stressful encounter. One can pray and ask for help and wisdom, sing, or choose to laugh, listen to music, meditate on something good, like all the things God has given to all and done for everyone. The mind becomes more in tune with what is going on in the outer world.
Creative Visualization of a clam beautiful place or time, and meditation helps stop the craziness and helps one calm down. To practice this kind of self control can help one become in-tune with what signs of the body. The body could be showing signs of high-blood pressure, signs of diabetes, signs of stress, heart pain, or mental confusion; to realize and become aware of a better way to handle everyday struggles could save our lives. We cannot hear high-blood pressure, we cannot hear diabetes symptoms, but, we can hear our mouth getting louder or talking fast or talking angry, or crying or moaning and then we can stop and remember we have a choice. Knowing there is an alternative, like immediate deep-breathing to calm down our nerves can help us stay in control and focus on what is important again. Doing a 20-30 minute visualization exercise can remove the body for the moment and act as a good mind-body-emotion stabilizer.
Personally, making the Creator happy and pleased, by keeping a stable,peaceful in-control, calm, happy mind, with a positive spirit, being kind to myself and others is reaching a higher level of mental and spiritual fitness.
Our Creator said to Love your neighbor as you love yourself". So, we are to love both, our neighbor and love ourselves. If we all practiced that practice, this world would be a better place and our minds would be more at ease in peace and serenity. Love is what makes the world go around.
That is called the Golden Rule Practice Exercise.
I agree that as long as you are making your creator happy ( which means you are doing the right thing) you will have harmony and inner peace in your life. You know when you do something right and it just feels good inside no one has to tell you, it just feels good. This is a great way to implement the visualization into to your life and keep an inner balance. It is important to focus on the good and the bad just so you know the difference and you can realize the blessings we have when we have them so we appreciate our lives even more. great post!!
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