The Loving Kindness meditation is valuable in developing a loving attitude for others and can be used as a way to start your day focusing outside yourself and on how you can experience your day building loving relationships with the people you encounter. I found the results of this meditation to be especially helpful in traffic while driving to and from the workplace.
The second meditation was the Subtle Mind practice and I found this especially useful to relax and quiet my brain. I accepted that I have a busy mind and I am continuing to work on keeping a small amount of time each day focused only on my breathing. This may sound strange but I believe this break has opened a door deep within me that is allowing happiness to spring forth that I always keep under wraps. I have found myself giggling at times when before I would have been too busy to enjoy the moment.
The final practice of Visualization is my new favorite as it combines the whole self in the process. The mind, body and spirit in the form of visualizing your happiest moment, your best health and your most connected moments in life. When you concentrate on these, all at the same time, they become empowering and fill your being with a radiating health and happiness.
In order to provide mental health fitness I believe these meditations need to be practiced consistently on a daily basis. I will start each morning continuing with the loving kindness practice so that I continue to start my day presenting myself to the world in a loving fashion. I will end each day with the visualization practice to provide my body, mind and soul with the healing affects of these wonderful memories and to help myself sleep better. Although I am recommending these two practices as the main two I will be accomplishing on a daily basis, I will also add the Subtle Mind meditation at various times during the week to ensure growth in the witnessing mind, the calm abiding mind and the unity consciousness mind.
Nutritionista,
ReplyDeleteI like the way you choose to start your day with the loving kindness exercise, if we could just get more people on that same track, we would be able to create a happier society. I also agree with you on the subtle mind exercise, it is a good one to incorporate into your weekly or monthly schedule, depending on how the brain capacity is on a day to day basis, some people may find benefits of adding it to their daily regime. For me it would depend on the day or week I was having, I think some weeks I may need to recharge with the subtle mind exercise more than others.
Thank you for sharing,
Peace,
Nico
I also like the meditation. I also like the idea of starting the day with loving kindness and finishing the day with meditation. Mind if I borrow you idea? :o)
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