Mental Workout Unit 4

According to Dacher (2006) for the benefits of the mental workout  to be felt it requires an hour a day. Also like any other training activity if we slack off we loose the conditioning benefits. In this case  for  contemplative practice for loving- kindness and subtle mind.  The loving-kindness concept is breathing exercise to start with yourself and slowing increase the circle to include others, strangers, all living things.  The subtle mind is an exercise to control the thoughts of the mind so it can be stilled an focused to calm-abiding.

These exercising would be good after work to calm my busy mind to get it refocused so it is not so  overwhelmed.  Remembering things I need to do at work, and clashing with things I have to do for home and school. 

The reality is I really don't have an hour to sit and do mental workouts.  I enjoyed the track thought , mostly the sound of the water, I actually  jumped each time her voice came through to speak about the exercise.  

Dacher, E. (2006). Integral health: The path to human flourishing. Laguna Beach, CA: Basic Health Publications, Inc.

Unit 3

I had to update my blog I missed identifying each aspect of well being by using the scale rating.

Physical well being is good- so I would have to rate that about a 5 becasue I don't do enough exercise- will focus more in the new year

Spiritual well being is better than good- this will be rated a 8,  I focus on this more -it encourages me in my life, I still need to do more meditation.

Psychological well being is better than good-  this is about a 7 due to the focus of my spiritual life my psycological life is better.  I will be doing more relaxation tecniques which helps releive  mental stress

I will be striving to increase my physical activities which will stimulate the rest my mental also

I found The Crime of the Century  rather  frustrating, the voice was grating not calming at all, and the colors and the up and down lines not soothing, had to close my eyes.  If found myself thinking, I could have been doing something constructive around the house or reading some of the chapters. 

Blogging is still not fun. Not easy for me to navigate yet. But I will perservere!

Deborah Ward

jouney on relaxation exercise (test)

Hopefully, I am doing this correct.
I played the journey on relaxation, but I was so stressed about doing this blog correctly
I don't think I payed much attention to what the exercise was trying to accomplish.
Therefore it didn't work.
Maybe I will try again later.

Deborah Ward

I finally did it ... with some younger assistance!

But I  did it. It took me a minute.  Yeah me!