Good Evening Everyone,
Just when I think the exercises for the blog are going to get easier they just get harder for me. In weeks before I thought it was hard to listen to someone tell me what to do but then I tried to read the exercise and then do it and it was even harder for me. For the first exercise I got into a comfortable place and began to repeat the sayings. I repeated "May all the individuals gain freedom from suffering". I repeated this numerous times and did begin to feel happier myself as if saying it for everyone included me. When I was finished with this say I had to stop and look back at the text for the next saying which pulled me out of the place of peace that I was in. This happened each time I moved on to the next saying. Because of this I found it hard to get back to a place of calmness each time and began to loose interest. This week I have found that it is easier for me to get to a place of calmness where I'm not constantly thinking of something else. However with this exercise I was able to get to a quiet place but when I began the exercise which was to ask myself " What aspect of my life is the source of difficulty and suffering. Just by asking myself that question my mind flooded with everything going on this week, this month, this year, everything I started thinking about. By this point I had to stop and go back to the text and read it again I was impossible for me to get past this point. Just when I thought it was getting easier it got harder for me. This week I discovered that I still have more work that I need to do in order to completely turn off my mind during the exercises. I also need to focus on letting go of the negative aspects of my past and everyday life in order to live a happier and healthier one. I feel as though in order to release these aspects I need to acknowledge each of them and fully release them from my life.
-Ashley
Monday, November 26, 2012
Monday, November 19, 2012
Hi Everyone,
This week and last week were very beneficial however last week was easier for me but this week was more needed. I have said from the beginning that focusing was my biggest problem. Last week I was able to connect and think about someone I cared deeply for as well as someone who is suffering. I was also able to feel pain as if it was there's. This week is very needed for me and it was also very difficult for me. I was able to focus on my breathing I concentrated on my chest rising and falling and when she told us to look at the images coming into our mind I was able to do that but still focus mostly on my breathing. The hard part for me was when she said to stop concentrating on your breathing as much and acknowledge your thoughts but you will not be consumed by them. At this point it was difficult for me to look at them but then to stop thinking about them . I instantly became consumed by them and kept thinking about everything going on. This is an exercise that I think I need to do everyday. For me there is one big difference between spiritual wellness and physical and mental wellness. The difference for me is that spiritual wellness comes from an outside source whereas physical and mental wellness comes from within. Also with physical and mental wellness there are ways to train your mind which is different also from spiritual wellness. For me I am training my mind to shut out my thoughts when I am going through the exercises.
-Ashley
This week and last week were very beneficial however last week was easier for me but this week was more needed. I have said from the beginning that focusing was my biggest problem. Last week I was able to connect and think about someone I cared deeply for as well as someone who is suffering. I was also able to feel pain as if it was there's. This week is very needed for me and it was also very difficult for me. I was able to focus on my breathing I concentrated on my chest rising and falling and when she told us to look at the images coming into our mind I was able to do that but still focus mostly on my breathing. The hard part for me was when she said to stop concentrating on your breathing as much and acknowledge your thoughts but you will not be consumed by them. At this point it was difficult for me to look at them but then to stop thinking about them . I instantly became consumed by them and kept thinking about everything going on. This is an exercise that I think I need to do everyday. For me there is one big difference between spiritual wellness and physical and mental wellness. The difference for me is that spiritual wellness comes from an outside source whereas physical and mental wellness comes from within. Also with physical and mental wellness there are ways to train your mind which is different also from spiritual wellness. For me I am training my mind to shut out my thoughts when I am going through the exercises.
-Ashley
Monday, November 12, 2012
Good Morning everyone,
While listening to this weeks exercise I was able to connect to it much more than I have during the previous weeks. At the beginning when it said to think about a loved I thought about my boyfriend. I was instantly filled with warmth and happiness. as it went on further and we were told to think about a person we love who is hurting I thought about my father. I took in his pain and suffering and sent out healing and happiness. When I brought in his pain I could really feel it however when I sent out happiness and healing it was like I healed myself. I felt the same way when we were told to do it for strangers. For my even though my father may not feel any different I was able to take in his pain and send out healing and felt healing within myself and it made me feel as though he will get through it and on the other side feel the way I did. I would recommend this to others it very much helped me and I have no doubt that it would help many other people. The concept of the mental workout is to do something daily to workout your mind and train it to be a certain way. The research shows that the outcomes of this is that one will have a source of peach and calming, ease and delight, and creativity and wisdom. I think that one of the ways I could implement this in my life is to continue to use the recording we heard this week. As well as doing the second practice in the book which is the subtle mind. By doing this we train our mind accessing its deeper levels and exploring the essential nature of mind and experience. This weeks was very encouraging to me and makes me want to explore it more.
-Ashley
While listening to this weeks exercise I was able to connect to it much more than I have during the previous weeks. At the beginning when it said to think about a loved I thought about my boyfriend. I was instantly filled with warmth and happiness. as it went on further and we were told to think about a person we love who is hurting I thought about my father. I took in his pain and suffering and sent out healing and happiness. When I brought in his pain I could really feel it however when I sent out happiness and healing it was like I healed myself. I felt the same way when we were told to do it for strangers. For my even though my father may not feel any different I was able to take in his pain and send out healing and felt healing within myself and it made me feel as though he will get through it and on the other side feel the way I did. I would recommend this to others it very much helped me and I have no doubt that it would help many other people. The concept of the mental workout is to do something daily to workout your mind and train it to be a certain way. The research shows that the outcomes of this is that one will have a source of peach and calming, ease and delight, and creativity and wisdom. I think that one of the ways I could implement this in my life is to continue to use the recording we heard this week. As well as doing the second practice in the book which is the subtle mind. By doing this we train our mind accessing its deeper levels and exploring the essential nature of mind and experience. This weeks was very encouraging to me and makes me want to explore it more.
-Ashley
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Unit three
Hi Everyone,
While thinking about this weeks blog post I was thinking about my physical health and overall I would rate this at being good the best of the three being at probably a 9. This is because I am overall healthy and exercise regularly to stay in shape. My spiritual well being is lower probably at a five I would consider myself a some what spiritual person however I could improve on it. My psychological well-being is probably a 6 I try to stay positive with my thinking and try to keep an opened mind however sometimes it is harder to do then other times. A goal for my physical health could be to eat more healthy, my spiritual goal would be to try and meditate more, and for my psychological health would be to train my mind to be more positive more of the time. I could try to eat one thing a day that is more healthy then move to more and more. Then for the meditation it would be just to try and incorporate meditation into my life as well as incorporating training my brain to be more positive on a daily basis. After listening to the link I realized like before that it was very difficult for me. I was unable to stop thinking about everything else from what I still needed to get finished to day to what I was going to make for dinner I just was not able to shut my mind off. I also had a hard time imagining all the images the man was telling us to. It could have been because I was thinking about other things. The one thing that I was really able to imagine was the red color and feeling grounded maybe it was because it was at the beginning of the recording and I was not thinking of other things yet. I think that I need to do these exercises more often in order to be able to do them better.
-Ashley
While thinking about this weeks blog post I was thinking about my physical health and overall I would rate this at being good the best of the three being at probably a 9. This is because I am overall healthy and exercise regularly to stay in shape. My spiritual well being is lower probably at a five I would consider myself a some what spiritual person however I could improve on it. My psychological well-being is probably a 6 I try to stay positive with my thinking and try to keep an opened mind however sometimes it is harder to do then other times. A goal for my physical health could be to eat more healthy, my spiritual goal would be to try and meditate more, and for my psychological health would be to train my mind to be more positive more of the time. I could try to eat one thing a day that is more healthy then move to more and more. Then for the meditation it would be just to try and incorporate meditation into my life as well as incorporating training my brain to be more positive on a daily basis. After listening to the link I realized like before that it was very difficult for me. I was unable to stop thinking about everything else from what I still needed to get finished to day to what I was going to make for dinner I just was not able to shut my mind off. I also had a hard time imagining all the images the man was telling us to. It could have been because I was thinking about other things. The one thing that I was really able to imagine was the red color and feeling grounded maybe it was because it was at the beginning of the recording and I was not thinking of other things yet. I think that I need to do these exercises more often in order to be able to do them better.
-Ashley
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