Training the Mind

We can have it all!! But, only when we re-channel our thought (Loving Kindness)

 

In order to have a full impact of this exercise, one will need to block every thought that suddenly flashes through your mind. I tried many times to be focused but unable to concentrate, first with the ocean-like sound, which sometimes sound like a raging storm to me, at one I was frustrated and often find myself distracted with my own thoughts and flashing issues. This kind of exercise can and will be beneficial to someone that has attained that level of consciousness, someone, that is able to block everything around them and see themselves floating in the air ( a feeling of lightness), I did benefit from it only for  just a short time, much like meditation. For that short period, I had a sense of calmness, maybe because I chose to refocus my thoughts and not thinking about all the chaotic days I had last week. The exercise redirects your tension and encourages you to be positive.

  The concept of “mental workout” is the idea of not just clearing our mind, but training our minds to release tension and anxiety and focus on positive and encouraging thoughts. There are proven benefits of mental workout. Mental training has proven to increase clarity and has shown long term as well as short term benefits. In order to implement mental workout in our own lives for our psychological health and wellbeing we must take time out for ourselves daily in order to refocus our minds (having good thoughts and then taking time to heal and forgive, because unforgiveness is like cancer that slowly takes a sit in our bodies until it claims its victim, so healing the mind is good. According to Dacher “Mental Workout” means utilizing contemplative practices to help tame the mind’s constant mental activities and train it along with opening one’s heart, expanding consciousness, and progressing towards psychospiritual flourishing” (Dacher, 2006).

 

Reference:

Dacher, E. S. (2006). Integral health: The path to human flourishing. Laguna Beach: Basic Health Publications Inc.

 

My overall Well being

Hello all!
With all the hustle and bustle of life, marriage, children, school, work... it is sometimes hard to reflect of take stock of your spiritual, psychological and physical life, but I did!
I did this today, as I am alone at home by myself with no 3 little prying eyes ( my babies), able to listen to the exercise ( meditation). Now, to score me, on a scale of 1-10 ( ten being the ultimate wellbeing? I would say my spiritual life is 6, my physical would be 4 and psychological? I guess I will be looking at a 6 also.  One might wonder, but why my physical life is graded 4? This is because I barely exercise, I get tired too often and have bad sleep pattern, although I work in pediatric clinic, I am constantly on the go and when I get home I still have the task of taking care of my responsibilities as a wife, a mother and then a do my school work which is tasking, so the little time I have is spent sleeping.

My spiritual life cannot take a second place in my life, it has to be first ( God first before anything). Once a man of God told me that " there has to be a balance in life and in whatever we do, one cannot outweighed the other, or something will suffer"
My head and thought process must be in a good place all the time, look at it this way, imagine those people in the psych ward? they were once sane and something triggered them and they lost their sanity, so I believe that there is a thin line between sane and insanity, so my psychological wellbeing must be healthy enough for me to function.

My goal is to be have a healthy eating habit, not stress over little things that I can't control, establish an exercise, a 30 minutes walk around my neighborhood after work to de-stress myself. I find that when I am stressed I tend to get angry very quick and then I recoil to my shelf. Secondly, having a quiet time and spending time in silence to hear what the spirit of God is saying concerning a thing and spending time in reading my bible. Lastly, doing things that can boost my memory and mental wellbeing. There is a saying " the mind is a terrible thing to waste".

After listening to the exercise " the crime of the century" I would it was a little beneficial to me,  in the past I was attending  Krishna Temple and we basically do some yoga and meditation and many years had past, so this exercise somewhat reminded me of what I used to do them, at first it was difficult concentrating, because my mind was all over the place, I was not focused. It is something that I can practice more often at least 20mins twice a week.

Lastly, this blogging is really good!  What is your view on this?

Hello everyone.

This is a new experience for me, where I get to create a blog, it was not as easy as I thought it would be but it paid off in the end.
Everyday we learn new things and this is no different. I ask this question, how was everyone's experience?. I know for a fact that people learn at different pace and some are quick to grasp, how is your experience?
Please let me know.