Subtle Mind

Compare and contrast the Loving Kindness exercise and the Subtle mind exercise. Explain your experience including the benefits, frustrations etc.

I didn't mind the Loving Kindness exercise I thought it was very relaxing and very helpful to follow someone's voice and think only about what they were saying. I was not fond of the voice for some reason though and it did make my mind drift off a bit. This exercise I also was not very fond of the voice, but I loved the music and the quiet times that it allowed me to have and focus on my breathing. This exercise reminded me more of hypnobirthing classes. I did like this exercise more mainly due to all of the quiet times with the background music and it was in rythym with my breathing. I also thought that it was more relaxing and I would love to do this exercise more than twice a day. In fact I think today I needed it about 20 times. LOL !

Discuss the connection of the spiritual wellness to mental and physical wellness. Explain how the connection is manifested in your personal life.

My spiritual life has so much to do with my mental and physical wellness. It is amazing how much we deny that their is any correlation between the two, but realize that they are directly connected. I am recently amazed at how much the two relate in my life. I would always have considered myself a pretty spiritual person. I have had several circumstances here lately that have let me know just how interconnected all of my body is. I have been restleling with some situations in my life and repeatedly been asking God for direction and quietly trying to listen to his advice and let him guide my life. Now I say let him guide my life, but of course I only wanted it to go in the direction that I saw best suited for myself. Funny isn't it that we even give God our orders and want him to just give it to us! LOL

I have been listening and know that I have been hearing God and his will, but instead of following I have been running. This is only out of human instinct. We tend to run from the things that we don't understand or might not believe that we are ready for. During all of this time I have not been feeling so well physically. I have been very ill and been having lots of physical ailments and problems. Not only have I had physical issues with my health, but I have also felt very emotionally depressed. While all of this is going on I never really thought about any of it all being related. Even while going through this class, in the back of my mind I was certainly thinking that I was doing everything I should and that I certainly was not failing. LOL! Well I was so wrong. For the last 3 months I have been miserable with my health and my emotions thinking about what was wrong with me. Going to the Dr's and hearing about the tests that they needed to run to see if it was caused from this or that. Then last week after having the church pray for direction for me let me tell you God hit me over the head HARD! My experience last week has been similar to the Verizon commercials. You know where the guy keeps walking around saying Can you hear me now? Then finally when someone on the other end can hear he says Good!  Well let me tell you since subtle signs were not getting my attention and obviously God was asking if I could hear him and I wasn't responding to his question. Well he found a way to get my attention, a way that shook me and let me know he answered me LOUD and CLEAR. God was yelling CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? Yes God I can! Interesting enough once this happened and I started to realize that my questions had been answered and I knew what I needed to do all of my illnesses and emotional sickness just faded. Every single symptom is GONE. Amazing that it all related back to my own emotional turmoil and spiritual warfare going on within myself. It is so interesting how we are such complex creatures, yet so simple also.