Unit 4 Blog (Mind, body, spirit)

Hello Everyone, I hope everyone is well. Well I found the first exercise Loving and Kindness the most difficult. When it started I was in my peaceful place and felt it filling my heart with love and kindness but the minute that they turned it to loving and kindness to one that had done us wrong or  someone that we had a bad experience it just brought back a lot of bad feelings and memories that I tried to forget. At that point I felt sad and cried and mad. I can say that the crying probabile was a great release because I have yet to cry about things and people that caused  me and my children harm. As the days went on i cried less and less. So on this point I do feel that the exercise was a success. I feel the emotional things that we keep inside cause the most physical damage to our wellbeing. Harboring bad feelings and not letting them out can cause a lot of physical pain and will continue to eat away at you even if you think you have put them in the past. Really they are just out away and not really gone at any moment they can resurface and cause us harm. In all ways. I would recommend these exercises to others especially people like me that have unresolved issues with myself and others. I do believe that when we harber bad feeling towards people in our past only gives those demands power over us and only we can forgive and move on giving us our power back and the and only then are we able to move on in a positive light. Therefore taking the power back that can be used to heal the past to move forward.

Mental workout id so important for ones overall health and even though I have not mastered the way to do mental workouts I do feel it is very important to our mind, body and spirit. I feel that if I can achieve a better mental workout on a routine basis  it will give me the tools to move forward with a clean slate and give integral health.  I think for me this will be a long process and I know that I have to try because stress can kill you. My goal is to learn to let go of the past and forgive myself and others or the things that i harbor and that still cause me mental and physical pain. I know if I can do this through mental workout i will improve my overall health and possibly save my life.

On this note I wish everyone the strength to love yourselves. Because if we don't love ourselves we will never be able to love others. Have a great week everyone!