Describe your experience.
Did you find it beneficial? Difficult? Why or why not? Would you recommend this
to others? Why or why not?
I found this exercise to be very helpful for me. I
was completely relaxed. I enjoyed the water and the gentle music. The thing I
did not like was the women’s voice because it was not soothing. I also did not
like the fact of taking the pain from others. I also did not like helping the
enemies. I think it was beneficial to
me. I am not sure of I would recommend to others because the voices were not
soothing. When you are doing this type of exercise, you need to have a soothing
voice to listen to, so it will help you relax. So I am undecided if I would recommend to
others, but I guess they could listen for themselves and see what they
experience because we all are different.
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 concept of mental workout is
achieving self- help to have free spirit of your body, mind, and soul. The benefits reduce your stress levels, and
help you achieve the proper balance you need to be healthy. I can implement mental workouts to foster my
psychological health by staying positive and analyzing situations before coming
to conclusions as well as doing the meditation and breathing exercises.
Jean St.John
Jean,
ReplyDeleteI did find this audio to be helpful, but I think you are right about the voices. I did not like the man's voice at all in this presentation! I found his voice to be disturbing actually and I think if the women's voice didn't come on, I probably wouldn't have liked it all. Her voice wasn't really soothing, but it was better than the man's voice. What I did like about audio was to be able to show love and kindness to others and to also love yourself. I think that is a good message that everyone should know :)
Great post!
Sara DeSanto
Hello Jean,
ReplyDeleteI think you're right, that being able to free your mind, body, and soul really do help reduce one's stress levels. Being positive is definitely much more beneficial in living happier and more healthful lives. I think that it is a great exercise to be able to forget about ourselves for a little bit, in order to think about others, like our spouses, friends, family, etc. It is important that we think positive feelings about others, and for me, it makes me feel even better and happier when I think happy thoughts about others, especially my husband and my children. They mean everything to me, so I would only want to think positive and cheerful thoughts about them. Good job on your post!
~Kristin Croake
Hi Jean, I really like coming to your blog, it is aesthetically pleasing :) Reading your blog I learned that each individual person has their own opinion. I went into the practice with the goal of simply calming my mind of randomness and I was not focused on the sound of the voices. Your thoughts allow me to recognize that other people cannot even get to a place of calmness if the voice isn't supportive of their view of what soothing sounds like. Thank you for that insight. I can see why you didn't care for the part of the practice of taking the pain from others. It seems like it provokes negativity and uncomfortableness which doesn't feel good. If you have a desire to overcome this akwardness of the practice, I would suggest finding a different approach. Maybe thinking of it as a way of showing empathy, taking that pain from them and then blessing them with feelings healing and kindness. Great post! ~Kanisha
ReplyDeleteHey Jean;
ReplyDeleteAt first I found the exercise of taking in others pain a little disturbing but as the exercise progressed and my mind brought to the forefront the articles about praying for strangers I felt a better about it and began to find a calming peace in it. “Love thy enemies as thy self” great in theory but very difficult in practice. You have to learn to forgive people that have hurt you not for them but for yourself. Holding the hurt only takes away your strength. This is an exercise that I use often. It’s in a book called the “The Law of Forgiveness by Connie Domino” I close my eyes and picture the person who’s hurt me in front of me I tell them everything that they’ve done to me and why I was hurt. Then I picture them acknowledging my feelings and apologizing. Once I’ve done that then I say this affirmation.
“I forgive you freely and completely, I release you and let you go, as far as I’m concerned the incident that happened between us is finished forever. I am free and you are free and all is well between us PEACE be with us”
I’m not saying that the anger went away at first but when I was sure that I’d said it and meant it things changed. I felt better and the stress about the situation was gone. My brother and I had been fighting for 10 years and hadn’t spoken since my father died. About a week after I said the affirmation my brother showed up on my door step. I live in Dallas Texas and he lives in Topeka Kansas. He used mapquest to get here.
That was a relationship I wanted to heal but others I’ve forgiven and moved on and I feel a TON lighter.
Terri Bentley