The Subtle Mind

The Subtle Mind exercise and the Loving Kindness exercise both allowed me to find a place of stillness and quietness. However, the Subtle Mind exercise had me so still that I fell asleep. Not sure that was suppose to happen LOL. The Loving Kindness required more mental action and less witnessing, at least for me. I didn't get frustrated with the exercises at all and I even found myself driving into work doing them. I like the Loving Kindness exercise because it challenges me to embrace the parts of myself I do not like and it challenges me to show love to those that quite frankly get on my last nerve. However, I did find that I was even less irritated than I usually am at the end of the day. I am typically a pretty easy going person but these exercises brought me to a whole new level of relaxation and I have really enjoyed it.

There is no doubt that I can see and most importantly feel the connection of the spiritual, mental, and physical levels. But the thing I notice the most is you can't improve one without improving the other. Since starting this class I find myself looking deeper and deeper at myself. At first I wasn't sure I like it but now I am coming to understand that these are the negative emotions I have allowed my inner self to be slave to far too long. Even relationships that I did not think could get better have significantly improved over the last couple of months. I have been able to share many of these concepts with strangers and patients in my clinic. I find that the more I embrace the loving kindness towards myself and find stillness at the end of the day I am growing in ways that I never thought possible, simply because I never thought =).