After doing the Subtle-mind practice and the Loving-Kindness exercises I found that only doing them once helped for the time being, but if I would add these into my daily life that I would feel less stress and become more focused. Both of these practiced focused on deep breathing and rhythmic breathing to help to connect body and mind together. There were some differences between the two exercises such as Loving-Kindness wants you to focus and think about loved ones, people in the world, and oneself, and the Subtle-Mind exercise wants all thoughts that enter the mind to be acknowledged and them forgotten so that one can go back to focusing on breathing. I think that both of these exercises were relaxing and helped me to focus on taking things in small amounts instead of trying to focus on everything at the same time and overwhelming myself.
The concept of mental workout means to make you mind think quickly and focus on things it is not use t doing. It is important to make our minds work so that they are always learning things and focusing. This will help to improve our everyday lives and hopefully help as we get older to keep our minds in shape and remember things. I think it would be important for clients to do mental workouts and I would encourage them to do them for about 10 minutes every day to help them to improve their minds.
Hello Angie,
ReplyDeleteI think that recommending 10 minutes a day of Mental exercise to clients is a decent amount of tiem to get them started. It is not an overwhelming amount of time and should be doable for most people.
Angie,
ReplyDeleteI agree that adding these to anyone's daily routine can be a great advantage.I plan on adding them to mine.I need the few minutes of me time in my crazy work environment. I too a course last year that recommended a mind control relaxation exercise twice a day for about 10-15 minutes. Just to let go and relax. Being more focused to a specific thing can help keep your mind on target. I take on too much at one time too and try to figure it all out at the same time. Since my job entails purchasing and problem solving for others it goes with out saying many times I need a bigger bucket to put out the fires. To be able to stop and just be and escape the moment and just exist in the moment would be divine. A clear mind can better focus on the things life throws at you.
Blessings
Jim