This week we’re to choose the two most beneficial exercises
that we have done to date in the class and determine how we can “implement”
these into our personal lives.
I chose the practice of Subtle Mind and Meditation. I can
use both of these in my life to enhance my emotional/mental wellness and learn
to calm my body and mind.
The Subtle Mind helps me by allowing me a method to quiet
the constant chatter that always seems to be present in my ever busy life. By
taking time out every day, or every
other day just to quiet my mind it takes between 5-10 minutes each day and once
it’s complete not only do I feel mor e
calm, but I am mor e clearly focused –
even if I don’t continue into meditation or
visualization. Taking time out each day, or
as I am able allows me to enjoy the “silence and stillness” that Elliott Dacher
spoke about in our book Integral Health: The Path to Human Flourishing. Having
a time to quiet your mind each day – even when you allow thoughts to come and
go is as beneficial as the “down time” your brain requires and gets when you
sleep.
The second practice – Meditation – is an essential practice
for me personally to allow me to
focus on my life, remove the things that are not beneficial and focus on the
things that are beneficial to my growth. I used to meditation often, sometimes
3-5 times a week and then I got away from it when life got too busy with
children, school and wor k. Throughout
the last 8 weeks as we've done an exercise, usually with meditation or visualization each week and I have found that my
level of stress decreases each time. Meditation can also be comparable to the
same state your body reaches during prayer. It is a time when you clear your
mind and focus on what’s impor tant
to you and in some cases what the universe is trying to tell you. You can also
use this time to take a mind, body and spirit inventor y
to see what areas are lacking and what needs you to focus on them.
2 comments:
I’m so excited for you! I too found benefit in meditation. Before this class my mind and body were like prefect stranger living under one roof. Only difference they didn’t like each other one bit. One (the mind) would make the other (the body) miserable. But I’ve learn to calm my mind to practice intervals of mediation throughout the day and allow my mind to stop and think then asses. I think we should all practice taking a mental vacation everyday through mediation. Continue to incorporate the lesson learned in the course work material. It will indeed take you away from your daily hustle of life.
I've practiced meditation prior to this course, but was never really taught the subtle mind exercise. We went through mindfulness and mindful meditation, but I have to say the subtle mind is one of the most useful tools I have learned so far. It used to take me a long time to fall asleep thanks to mental "chatter" and now instead it typically takes 5-10 minutes to quiet my mind and I can sleep!
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