Loving Kindness Exercise

I just did the loving-kindness exercise. I need to find a quiet place, maybe next time I will do it outside. I found it difficult to "quiet my mind". The concept of breathing in suffering and breathing out happiness. This is something that is going to take practice.

A mental workout is a form of exercising the mind.
"The most meaningful aim of contemplative practice is not rest and relaxation but rather the progressive development of an expanded consciousness and its healing capacities (Dacher 2006)."

I am glad that I am taking this class and I look forward to the benefits of mental training. I struggle with feeling burdened by challenges and stress in life. I often carry the "weight of the world" on my shoulders, trying to help everyone. I am going to try to take more time for myself. I am going to take walks and try to start and end each day either journaling or praying out loud to help relax my body and clear my mind.

"Research studies and personal reports have also demonstrated that mental training can transform the mind by reducing disturbing emotions that cause anger, hatred, fear, worry, confusion, and doubt while enhancing positive emotions such as patience, loving-kindness, openness, acceptance, and happiness (Dacher 2006)."

~Amy Summey

Source

Dacher, E. S. (2006). Integral Health: The Path to Human Flourishing. Laguna Beach: Basic Health

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