Unit 5
Your mental fitness practice this week incorporates the concept of the subtle mind (Dacher p.75). This week, replace the Loving Kindness exercise of unit four with Practice 2: The subtle mind exercise and listen to track #3 on the Dacher CD.
1. Compare and contrast the Loving Kindness exercise and the Subtle mind exercise. Explain your experience including the benefits, frustrations etc.
I felt calm-abiding in the subtle mind practice. I could feel my breath with every movement of stillness. The feeling of waves rushing over me made it conscious that a change was taking place in me. I realize that my mind did wonder, but I was able to bring it back to my focal point to continue the process. I sure did calm my mind. The warm I felt from focusing and feeling my breath made an impact that help me to understand loving kindness even more. When I use them together I became more alert mentally and calm physically.
2. Discuss the connection of the spiritual wellness to mental and physical wellness. Explain how the connection is manifested in your personal life. If you are not spiritual connected to a purpose, you physical body will show signs of distress.
Even an atheist will feel a disconnection, if they did not have something to connect to within their own spiritual understanding. Therefore once the spirit is well the emotional, physical self will be well too. In my life I stay focus on god who spearheads my being. Without my belief in a superior creator then it would have been something else. I think therefore I am, therefore I believe that I am directed by a higher force that directs the I am in me. This force in me creates the spiritual and physical wellness in me.
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