1. Review the exercises and practice sessions you have completed in this course. (Loving Kindness, Subtle mind, Visualization, meditation etc.) Choose two practices that you have determined to be most beneficial. How can you implement these practices in your personal life to foster �mental fitness�? Provide specific examples.
I particularly found the Loving Kindness and Visualization exercises to be the most helpful and enjoyable. I loved how calm and well-centered the Loving Kindness exercise made me feel each time I completed it. It always left me with a feeling of great accomplishment and positive feelings for myself and everyone else. I am a firm believer in the idea that if you can see yourself a certain way, you can become whatever it is that you see. The Visualization exercise really helped me to concentrate on what I wanted to be and helped me to see how I could make it happen.
The Loving Kindness exercise is something I plan on using while I am on my way to work to help me get into a positive mindset for the day. I work with many different kids of people, some of whom are not always pleasant, so cultivating my feelings of goodwill to everyone will help me to approach every person and situation positively. The Visualize exercise will be great during my runs since it will help to motivate me to push myself with every workout.
I know that the things that I have learned about in this class will be very beneficial to me in the future!
Thanks for reading!
Heidi
Heidi,
ReplyDeleteThe mind is a powerful tool. Visialization is a asset to ourselves. During this class, I have tried to include my family in what I have learned. Around the start of this class, my daughter started her 2nd year playing volleyball for the rec center league. I practiced with her during the off season, working on her serving. I knew she could get the ball over the net but each time she got up to service during a game she froze. She would serve the ball and it would either go out of bound before reaching the net or just not make it. So one day before her game, I told her just before she was about to serve, to close her eyes and see in her mind, her serving the ball perfectly over the net. When she was up to serve, she scanned for me in the crowd, looked at me, notted her head, closed her eyes for a few short seconds, then stepped up and hit the ball. It glided gracefully over the net not just once but 5 times each time scoring a point. To see her face was a moment I will never forget, the smile was ear to ear and the crowd and her team roared for her. I myself got a little tearing eyed. After the next couple of games, her coach asked her what she was doing to improve her game so well. She told them, "something my mama told me to do, to see me serving the ball in my mind before I actually do". The coach had my daughter at the next practice, teach everyone how to "see it in their minds". Her team is doing awesome and have only lost one game. A mother could not be any more proud then I was the day she taught her team to visualize.
In my article for this unit I came across an article that talked about meditation and finding what works best for you, the individual. I found it to be very enlightening. I thought about the loving-kindness exercises when I was reading it because I have found that to be what works best for me so far, a natural fit. I hope that you will continue to grow and to share your experiences and knowledge with your family.
ReplyDeleteI have shared a lot of the information we have learned in this class with my boyfriend. He is going through a rough patch right now and sometimes becomes overwhelmed. He is trying out some of our exercises to keep himself positive and focused on what is important. This class and the inforamtion it has given us will be a benefit to each of us and to those around us.