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 exercises that I found to be most useful from this course were the subtle mind exercise and the loving-kindness exrcise. As many others have noted, many aspects of these exercises are much like prayer. Personally, I feel that prayer is a great way to implement these practices. Another way that I can implement these practices is by using the tips provided in training the mind to alter perception of stressors. For example; rather than viewing a task as yet another responsiblity, I can view it as a step toward achieving a goal (i.e. obtaining my career, paying off my car, etc). Many of the issues that cause stress in my life are things that are out of my control anyway. I need to look at these issues as what they are, out of my control, and focus more on things that I can actually change.
There are certainly a lot of circumstances that are out of our control, so why stress? That is what these exercises teach us to do. We are learning to control our emotions, limit stress and we learn how to handle these situations more effectively. I know I have stressed about situations and in the end thought, "I didn't need to stress about that".
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Brandy
Yeah my saying always is if you can't do anything about it then there is no use worrying about it. I do not pray as much as I used to but do feel that spirituality is an important part of becoming truly free with a free mind!
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