Unit 5

1. Compare and contrast the Loving Kindness exercise and the Subtle mind exercise. Explain your experience including the benefits, frustrations etc.

The love kindness exercise is more aimed and geared towards the heart and mind. This exercise is supposed to get you and your body ready for other exercises like the subtle mind exercise. The subtle mind exercise is geared more towards the mind and finding your inner self. The benefits that I had with these two exercises was that I was able to relax and focus more. The loving Kindess exercise helped me to realize what love that I do carry for certain people meant to me. The subtle mind exercise helped me stay focus and made me realize what areas in my mind training I needed to work on. Some frustration I had was with the Subtle mind exercise. I would try and get into my inner thinking and some of the images in my head would make me cry. These are images that I try to forget but somehow always come back to me.

1. Discuss the connection of the spiritual wellness to mental and physical wellness. Explain how the connection is manifested in your personal life.

The connection to me is a personal opinion. I think that the connection is deeper than people think on the outside. Inorder to have a healthy mind and physical wellness you have to be spiritually well also. All three are linked together. Kind of like if one link is missing or unhealthy, the whole chain is broken. I see it like that, if one wellness is not healthy then the whole person themselves are not healthy. This connection is manifested in my life in one major way. I was not spiritually well and everyone noticed it. When I went through a rough last 6 months,  everyone knew it. I let everything get to me because I was not spiritually healthy. Because of that my mental state was slipping away and my physical health was getting to the point of being anarecix. I had to fix myself one step at a time and now I have completed all three to be a healthy A. :)

Samie