This week I was to practice the art of loving-kindness. Loving-kindness brings about a peace in the mind, body and spirit. I have been doing it for the past 4 days and feel it is getting easier to do. I say it has become easier because my attention only lasted 8 minutes the first day. Now, on my fourth day I was able to expand my intention and attention for the complete 17 minutes. I noticed when I take a deep breath in my arms and back feel heavy. I have been sitting on a pillow with my legs crossed and eyes closed.
I plan to do everything I can to get others to participate in their own spiritual well-being starting with the exercise. If every human participated there would be a decrease in fear, anxiety, animosity, and hatred. Leaving only room for understanding, confidence, love, kindness, and peace.
The concept of a "mental workout" is practicing and exercising the mind and training the brain to react with more compassion and understanding. Just as a top level athlete needs to exercise daily, psychological and spiritual well-being and loving-kindness need to be exercised daily. It is true about nearly everything you wish to pursue...you do not become a world renowned chef for cooking once in a while. A craft is cultivated with daily use, inspiration and the confidence to put into motion.
The research of "mental workout" has shown that those who actively participate by integrating practices that improve psychological and spiritual development have increased cognitive activity. Also, they harbor feelings of love, respect, gratitude, and all over peace.
I want all of my readers to set aside 10-15 minutes a day. This time can be any time that you find for yourself. The morning is recommended because your brain has not yet been bombarded by what the day will bring yet. Before bed is always a great time to begin coming down from the experiences your day has brought. This will ease your mind into relaxation and improve sleep for you. Practice meditating and loving-kindness and things will fall into place in other ways. I am a firm believer that the universe will give back what you give to it.
Copy and paste this URL into your browser and practice!
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Love & Light
Hi Stevi,
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear that things have been tough for you lately. But this exercise was a great motivational one for me at least. I'm glad you enjoyed your experience with this as well as I did. A mental workout- I am trying to do this myself to think of positive things :) And I agree that people need to take time out to be able relax and find yourself.
With Love, Bridget
Hello Stevi,
ReplyDeleteJust a quick tip for you if your feeling fatigue i'd recommend into looking at taking about 5000mcg of vitamin b12 sublinqual form to offset fatigue. I totally agree with you if only people would take the initiative to just keep themselves calm and reduce the stress and tenseness in which many of us experience from day to day, using these type of scenairo's and incorporate them in our lives things would draw out alot more positive for people in this world.
Excellent points Stevi! I particularly like how you explain "the concept of a "mental workout" as practicing and exercising the mind and training the brain to react with more compassion and understanding." That's great!
ReplyDeletePS - Try sleeping or resting/taking breaks to boost your energy. That works!
Best!
Daisy
hello Stevi Loving-kindness is a meditation practice, which brings about positive attitudinal changes as it systematically develops the quality of 'loving-acceptance'. It acts, as it were, as a form of self-psychotherapy, a way of healing the troubled mind to free it from its pain and confusion. Of all Buddhist meditations, loving-kindness has the immediate benefit of sweetening and changing old habituated negative patterns of mind.
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