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 most impressionable exercises
I’ve experienced during this course so far has been the most recent
visualization, noted in Dacher’s text on pages 144-146 and secondly the Loving
Kindness exercise. I have learned that
in order for any exercise to be
beneficial to me, I have to already be in a positive mood and able
mindset. I have yet to find any
meditation that has been able to bring me out of a foul mood (rather, they just
seem to antagonize my feelings at the time).
These meditations seem to simply magnify whatever mood I am in. Therefore, the two most favorable exercises
I’ve practiced thus far stemmed from already feeling “right”. I suppose in an effort to foster mental
fitness in the future, I would like to practice mediations frequently enough so
that I can indeed use them the ultimately break me out of any bad moods and
have them help facilitate positivity and peace when I need it most. Specifically, if I were overwhelmed with time
management in the peak of my stress, it would be ideal to find enough time to
calmly and properly enjoy a thorough meditation, so this will be a goal to work
towards. It seems as though the bottom line
with all of these discussions is that practice makes perfect in the world of
mental fitness.
That's great that you are going to incorporate meditation into you routine towards calm.
ReplyDeleteI agree, we have to be in somewhat of a good mood to practice the meditations. I unfortunately tried doing these at night when my kids were in bed and by then I was already grouchy!
Great - final statement: "practice makes perfect".