For both exercises, using the breathing techniques helps to give the mind a deeper stillness and loosening any attachment to mental activity. The contrast between these two practices:
Loving kindness practices helps to embrace the art of loving all living things including your enemies. Subtle-mind practices helps you train your mental thoughts in grasping and releasing, as if they are in air to dissolve.
The connection to spiritual wellness to mental and physical wellness is they interconnected and sensitive to one another as we have discuss in earlier discussions. If the mind is disruptive with negative thoughts(stress), this can bring blockage to the body such as hypertension or cardiac deterioration. This will affect the spirit because it produces depression and lack of energy to all levels of consciousness and health.
The experiences I received was the relaxation to the point I felt light and free. This practice took longer for me, because I am accustom to using imagery in my breathing techniques for calming my thoughts. This will take a lot of concentration and focus on mind releasing. Just when you think you've got it, another switch is given in the dynamics of integral health.
Best in Health,
Gilda
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Gilda,
ReplyDeleteI agree that the mind and body are connected. Negative input results in negative output. Sort of a garbage in garbage out mentality. When we see a negative vision such as things that happen on the news and watch it just before we go to sleep the mind and spirit process it all night and the body reacts to it in the morning. To be able to as I did this weekend to clean out the attic (mind) and the garage (body) of the junk that we put in it (music, words, thoughts, etc ) and input good things ( calm thoughts, the little things around us, etc) and take care of the body and spirit the product is entirely different. It is amazing that just a slight change in one of the three areas can make a drastic change in all three.
Blessings
Jim