Loving Kindness

The Loving Kindness exercise was relaxing and enjoyable for me.  I didn't fall asleep with this one!  The difficult part for me was "watching" things happen and not having emotion with them.  I found myself having a "dialogue" with myself about what to do and how to do it.  I'm not sure if this inability to concentrate was due to my recent illness or that I just found separating the two areas difficult.  I plan on trying this exercise again as soon as I am fully recooperated. 

I will definitely recommend this for others to try.  I think once you can master it, it helps to center your mind and bring you to a peaceful and loving place...only if you can appreciate the bad feelings as well as the good.  Giving our bad or negative feelings the same "respect" as our positive ones, helps us to love all things and will certainly bring us to becoming kinder and more loving human beings.

Mental workouts help us to concentrate and accept more information or experiences.  It's just like most things in life...the more you do them, the more you work out and educate yourself, the more you can go through life with a better sense of yourself and others.  Mental workouts can help foster psychological health by opening channels to healing our minds.  It opens us up to new experiences without prejudice.  I think they are essential in helping toward psychospiritual healing.