The loving kindness exercise was very rewarding. I sent blessings in the area of loving kindness and an increasing concern and compassion for the well being of all the inhabitant of the earth. This is my encouragement to use relaxation exercises to find their calm mind.2. What is the concept of “Mental Workout? What does the research indicate are the proven benefits of a Mental Work Out? How can you implement mental workouts to foster your psychological health?
The concept of Mental Workout implies the same process that you use to exercise and work out your muscles, can be used to work out specific areas of the brain and it can result in structural change.
Research studies indicate that mental training can transform the mind by reducing disturbing emotions that cause anger, hatred, fear, worry, confusion, and doubt while enhancing positive emotions such as patience, loving kindness, openness, acceptance, and happiness. The mental transformation, acting through mind/body connection, provides enhanced resistance to mental distress and physical disease expands our healing capacities and promotes well being.
I can implement mental workouts to foster my psychological health by applying contemplative practice in my life daily to gain access to the deeper levels of my mind. This will tame the mind’s ceaseless activities that obscure higher states of awareness. Through mental training I will gain access to the more subtle levels of the mind. My fully developed mind cultivates the qualities of human flourishing which are health, happiness, and wholeness. As I continue to develop there will come a time when I will no longer have to cultivate the attitude through practice, loving-kindness will reveal itself as a a natural and effortless practice.