The Loving Kindness exercise was very beneficial in accepting love into my heart, and not pushing it away when missing someone I love hurts too much. The beauty of loving-kindness is that is opens your heart to not only acknowledge that a deep love for humanity can exist, but that it is actually able to be implemented into our modern society.
The Subtle mind exercise was beneficial to me because the visual of the rise and fall of my chest as I breathe was very calming, just like the rolling waves coming in onto the shore. Taking the time to breathe deeply in and out was very relaxing for my mind and body. There is a point in the meditation where the narrator said, "There will come a time when your mind is firmly stabilized in stillness". To move from the concentration of breath, to full surrender to the stillness. I know this will be an ever-long process, but the reward is worth my effort, because it will bring me closer to my center, so that I can be a light that shines bright not just for myself but for others.
The connection of the spiritual wellness to mental and physical wellness is highly significant in finding a balance of ones Chi and inner peace. Spiritual wellness can also aid in forming closer relationships with loved ones, friends and strangers of a like mind. Physical wellness is complete opposite of spiritual wellness in that it is physical while spiritual is well, spiritual (nonmaterialistic). Psychological wellness is a little more closely related to that of spiritual wellness in that they both derive from the inner self and displays a belief in oneself, the world surrounding and the perspectives in which one has about life and its fellow creatures.
For me, spiritual wellness begins with a solid psychological confidence that while there are things that happen in life that I can not control, I am in control of my faith, self-confidence, and self drive to succeed and be happy. No one can take those away from me. Physical wellness comes after psychological wellness most of the time (though sometimes it can be vice versa), because having a strong will enables me to challenge my physical body to succeed in ways that my mind can only think of, not act upon. Simultaneously my spiritual wellness begins to develop because my soul is finding peace in the balance of all three of these aspects of integral healing that make me whole. It was hard for me to explain, but point being, all three are interconnected, and if one is off balance, I am not at my full potential. It is constant work to find the harmony between all of these aspects, but it is something that makes me a better person, a nicer and kinder person, and a more genuine and whole individual.
The Subtle mind exercise was beneficial to me because the visual of the rise and fall of my chest as I breathe was very calming, just like the rolling waves coming in onto the shore. Taking the time to breathe deeply in and out was very relaxing for my mind and body. There is a point in the meditation where the narrator said, "There will come a time when your mind is firmly stabilized in stillness". To move from the concentration of breath, to full surrender to the stillness. I know this will be an ever-long process, but the reward is worth my effort, because it will bring me closer to my center, so that I can be a light that shines bright not just for myself but for others.
The connection of the spiritual wellness to mental and physical wellness is highly significant in finding a balance of ones Chi and inner peace. Spiritual wellness can also aid in forming closer relationships with loved ones, friends and strangers of a like mind. Physical wellness is complete opposite of spiritual wellness in that it is physical while spiritual is well, spiritual (nonmaterialistic). Psychological wellness is a little more closely related to that of spiritual wellness in that they both derive from the inner self and displays a belief in oneself, the world surrounding and the perspectives in which one has about life and its fellow creatures.
For me, spiritual wellness begins with a solid psychological confidence that while there are things that happen in life that I can not control, I am in control of my faith, self-confidence, and self drive to succeed and be happy. No one can take those away from me. Physical wellness comes after psychological wellness most of the time (though sometimes it can be vice versa), because having a strong will enables me to challenge my physical body to succeed in ways that my mind can only think of, not act upon. Simultaneously my spiritual wellness begins to develop because my soul is finding peace in the balance of all three of these aspects of integral healing that make me whole. It was hard for me to explain, but point being, all three are interconnected, and if one is off balance, I am not at my full potential. It is constant work to find the harmony between all of these aspects, but it is something that makes me a better person, a nicer and kinder person, and a more genuine and whole individual.
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