My experience with the relaxation exercise can be describe as very uplifting, I have a very strong prayer life that I practice on a daily basis and when I integrate this exercise along with my current practices it allows me to take myself to a quite place and decompress and focus on the peace and tranquility that is required to recharge my batteries. I didn't find this exercise difficult at all and I would recommend it to others.
"Mental Workout" is a concept that requires allowing yourself to be relief from the day to day stress that occur in our lives. Research suggest that we practice our own mental workout on a daily basis, to ensure integral health.
I have incorporate a mental workout in my morning, noon, and evening routines. This consist of my daily prayers, and finding my quite zone so that I won't allow the daily stressor to take over. I encourage everyone to have this type of workout integrated into their lives because it does help to decompress.
Allenda – I am glad that you were able to work through the exercise. I was unable to focus even though I tried multiple times. I don't know if it's because I have been fighting being ill (physically) or if it is because my stress level is much higher this week or if it is because one of the hardest skills of the three we have been learning is loving-kindness for me. I am compassionate and kind to others, almost to a fault – but I am rarely able to turn it inward towards myself. This is something I hope to remedy in the future and I will keep working on it as well.
ReplyDeleteDo you find the time to incorporate prayer and mental workouts or do you make the time? How do you let other things in life that can be so distracting go so that you can attain your “silence and stillness”?
Hi Sandy
DeleteIt has taken me a long time to incorporate prayer into my daily life. It took practice and focus in order to stop what I'm doing and pray. I pray before work, at lunch and when I get home, the hospital that I work has a chapel and this makes it easy for me to stop and decompress. However, there have been times that I don't have time to stop and pray in the chapel so I go to the restroom and take a minute. This is a must for me without it I find it difficult to move forward. I make time because God makes time for me all the time and I shouldn't give Him any excuses to honor him nor the life he has graced me with :)
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Allenda,
ReplyDeleteHow great is it that you have a current practice in your daily life. Since taking this course it’s been a struggle at best to make meditation or spiritual reflection a daily life style for me. Although I recognize the benefits to my holistic health making it a mainstay is a continued process. Thanks for your encouragement by example.
Allenda,
ReplyDeleteIt's good that you find time to incorporate quiet time into your day. I did not have trouble with exercise either and actually do that on a daily basis when I pray for my patients I take care of, most of them are so sweet and kind and I hate to see them suffer. That's why I became a nurse, I saw my grandmother suffer with illness when I was a child and I vowed to grow up and take care of her. She deserved an easier life, she was always so sick, she passed away shortly after I graduated from high school. I worry a lot about my own mother being so sickly the last 2 years but most of hers is in her mind. I hope and pray I can help her see about the integral health.