Loving Kindness

I think this exercise was really emotional, well for me it was. The part where it asks you to think of images the good and the bad and just observe was really hard for me. I push things so far back into my mind to try to erase them that I think I have alot of unresolved feelings. And crying is just something I don't like to do, I feel weak. This is something I will have to work on. I feel like I am a natural nurturer, I love other people and will do anything for them if I can, but when it comes to myself I don't do the same. I just thought it came with the territory of being a mother, you always put everyone else's needs before your own. Like I'll go weeks being sick before I go to the doctor because I tell myself you don't have time to be sick, so i get up go to work, clean house, make dinner, do homework, until I drop. Which I know is unhealthy, but I still do it. I think this class is going to help me alot, I need alot of phychological healing, I need to learn new ways of dealing with emotion and handling them in a more healthy way. I don't think suppressing things is healthy at all I just have never learned how to deal with things in any other way. I think even after this class I will continue to do these exercises and see if it makes a big difference, I believe it will.

Mental workouts are things that you do to stimulate your mind. Anything can be a mental workout, like reading, coloring, crossword puzzles, word search puzzles, learning a new language, studying something you've never studied before. All of these things stimulate your mind and give it a challenge. If you don't use your brain you lose it, if you just sat and watched television everyday all day your brain would turn to mush, you wouldn't know much of anything. Mental exercise is just as important as physical exercise when it comes to having optimal health.