Loving Kindness and Integral Assessment

Hi everyone! I think that I finally got the hang of this! So, when I practiced the Loving Kindness exercise, it made me think of some of the people that give me a hard time and that it is because they themselves are suffering in a way and lashing out on whoever they can. I keep my distance from these people (or at least try to) but it made me think that maybe I should not shove them away, maybe I should try to help them. Everyone has difficulties in their lives, some just deal with it better than others. As for the Integral Assessment exercise, I focused my growth on interpersonal and worldly sources of my difficulty and suffering. I want to focus my growth on these two areas because I do not believe or have confidence in myself a lot of times, which holds me back from doing a lot of things that I would like to do and this then leads to me not being too social because of the lack of confidence. All of this can really cause me problems when looking into furthering my career from my BS. I am practicing the meditation and breathing exercises that I have read from this course so far and also exercising again, to help release that good feeling of being healthy and in control of my body again. It is helping so far, so I am going to continue with these exercises and hopefully learn more exercises to practice in this class.

Loving Kindness and Subtle Mind Exercises

Hi everyone! These two exercises are the same in the relaxation part and connecting your mind with your body, but different in ways of what they have you focus on and how you put your energy into different ways of thinking. The loving kindness exercise made me have a connection with myself and reaching for the connection of a loved one, it made me feel happy and loving inside. The subtle mind exercise made me feel more of a connection with my mind, my body, and my breathing. It was very relaxing, but it took me a little bit to shift my focus to my breathing and then again to not focus too much on my breathing to where I am just one in my mind and body. Spiritual wellness has a big connection to the mental and physical wellness of myself. Mentally relaxing myself by fixating on my breathing helps me to be calm and relieve any stress that may be on my mind or in my body, the key is to just relax and find that point of comfort. This is manifested in my personal life because I seem to be stressed lately with school and work, I have to constantly focus on what I am doing in my classes and at work but practicing these exercises have me focus on myself and how I am feeling. I want to keep my spiritual and mental wellbeing healthy, so this can let me do that so that I can focus on my work life better. Thanks for listening, see everyone in class!

Loving Kindness

Hi class! I am posting a new post and do not know how I did it! I have to get used to this stuff. Anyways, I took the Loving Kindness practice and found it again, very relaxing (which I think is do to the concentration of the deep breathing) and felt happy inside. I imagined the flow of water opening my heart and carrying love to the person that I was thinking about along with carrying the love throughout my body, getting rid of all the bad feelings and understanding why I have these feelings. I pictured the pouring of little hearts, flowing through my body from head to toe, it is a good feeling! Thanks for listening everyone! Hope you had a great experience too! :)

Introduction

Hi everyone! This is the first time for me blogging, so I hope I am doing this right. I look forward to meeting everyone on blog.spot and in my classes at Kaplan! I hope to meet everyone soon!