Good Evening Health Bloggers,
1. Explain your experience including the benefits, frustrations etc.
This week we had to compare and contrast the Loving Kindness exercise and the Subtle Mind exercise. While the Loving Kindness exercises allowed us to focus on others and reflect on are personal feelings of support and empathy to those we love and humanity as a whole, the Subtle Mind exercises is teaching us how to control our thoughts, to intentionally reinvent our thinking process and what we allow to affect our mind. The internal & outward effect it has on the body and training our subconscious into a psychologically healthy mind-body connection.
My experience with the Subtle Mind exercise was more positive than the previous exercises. I believe this happened because I was already tired and mentally my brain had been on overboard from the weeks work so I was at a place where I was pliable and receptive to listening to the meditational exercise. The young lady's voice was very relaxing and the waves are a added incentive since it reminds me of the beach, which I love. I am still learning to do breathing exercises and relax my mind and the advantage of this exercise was that it was over 20 minutes long so there was time to refocus when your thoughts would shift to a distracting thought.
2. Discuss the connection of the spiritual wellness to mental and physical wellness. Explain how the connection is manifested in your personal life.
As we are learning of how intricate the body is, we begin to understand we are more complex than most can imagine. If we hurt our finger the finger doesn't say ouch but triggers the pain to our brain, which then can be shown through facial expression, emotion or verbal acknowledgement. When we spiritually are at a place of peace our minds are at ease and that same peace flows and is expressed in our body movements, stance and even appearance. How we feel rather good or bad can be seen and felt within us and outwardly to others which lets us know that there is a connection of spirit, mind and body. When we are depressed, some have lost of appetite, are unfocused, become isolated and studies have shown that this is in direct correlation to brain patterns and negative thought. The opposite is true when we are joyous or incorporate exercises like meditation and yoga. The brain shows signs of a natural happy drug-endorphins that show the link and effect it has between the brain and our bodies.
Respectfully,
Desiree Stroder
Mrs. Desiree, I really enjoyed your blog over all, but I love the detail, and expression of question 2. While both questions are really well written and to the point, question 2 was, I thought, a harder question to answer. I know that when my depression, anxiety and PTSD are bad, I isolate really bad, and everyday activities become difficult, even things that should be a priority. But I really enjoyed your post. I look forward to reading next weeks post. Have a great day!
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