Unit 4 Loving-Kindness

1.            Describe your experience. Did you find it beneficial? Difficult? Why or why not? Would you recommend this to others? Why or why not?

To find a peace within myself I learned this exercise can help and benefits daily. Taking the time to really just relax and take in the negative thoughts and dissolve them is a real confidence builder. I feel I have a power to help others by helping myself. I want to not only seek inner peace but to spread that help to loved ones and even those I just think of, this is where I feel confident I can spread happiness. It is like pressing reset and just rebooting every sensation and clarifying all negative setbacks.

I found this exercise beneficial to fit into my healthy lifestyle. It is part of an integral approach and helps me push away a lot of the negative perspectives and allows a great focus on myself. The main feeling I get is the ability to be open and get rid of the self-centeredness, growing my mind to an advancing development.

This is not difficult, it is of ease and it is a matter of taking the time each and every day to focus on certain things. Repetition is key and makes my mind ready and available to help itself on a regular basis. This is effective and it can be added into anyone’s healthy planning. Once you have the mind set, you really can build the confidence to do anything. I do want to recommend this to others, because it can help them find inner peace and opening up to spread their good vibes to others as well. Negativity is extremely easy to focus on, but its exercises like these that can help bring an inner health.

2.            What is the concept of "mental workout"? What does the research indicate are the proven benefits of a mental workout? How can you implement mental workouts to foster your psychological health?

The reasoning behind a mental workout is commitment. As we all know it takes time and practice to be good at things, but it takes even more time and practice to be excellent at them. Our mental workout only takes a little effort and it is a fact that there is a positive growth in our inner development and flourishing through these practices. I can’t expect to pass an exam without the time and preparation and commitment to succeed, just as it is for a mental workout to succeed. Listening to simple directions and allowing inner thoughts to escape and be controlled are practices that need to be mastered. In these simple efforts, we can all learn a thing or two about each other and ourselves. As Dacher explains in his book, we know this from our own lives, from personal testimonials, and from research studies. There is also a negative aspect, if we stop practicing and deny out commitment, then there will be a drop off.

“What is Psychological health? Psychological health is about doing things that give you a sense of enjoyment and achievement, holding helpful and balanced attitudes toward life, and building satisfying relationships.”

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I can easily see that it is important to take the time to help our psychological wellbeing. You can easily follow the practice of Loving-kindness, and also the subtle mind which are in the book written by Dacher, Integral Health. Life is good, and this simple exercise can help you not only love yourself but to help and love others.