This weeks exercise was called Loving-Kindness. In this exercise you are asked to visualize a person you love and feel the loving-kindness is your heart and your body. Then you are asked to visualize someone that you love that is suffering and you are to breathe in the suffering and exhale loving-kindness or whatever it is that you think will help the person. The exercise continues to include strangers then everyone. This exercise will definitely take some practicing specially because it is not an audio. It was interesting and it definitely hit me when it came to the family member part. My mother is suffering from severe depression and obesity amongst other medical issues. We have recently had a falling out and have not really spoken to each other. I used my mother for this part and it was pretty emotional for me. I can definitely see how this exercise can make you change your view of others and how it can make you change your attitude. This is an exercise I would definitely recommend to my clients, friends, and family and one that I plan on incorporating into my life.
In order to strengthen our inner self and strive for integral health we must work out mentally. The exercise described above is part of this mental workout. Just like an athlete has to train his or her body to perform, so does a person on the path to integral health have to train his or her mind. The mind is a powerful tool that is capable of many amazing things including healing when trained. By practicing (working out) daily we can train our mind. Research proves the power of a trained mind to be able to affect the body and its health. Dean Ornish a cardiologist proved that a holistic mind-body-spirit approach can reverse heart disease in patients old and young, mild to severe cases.
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