Unit 8

Review the exercises and practice sessions you have completed in this course. (Loving Kindness, Subtle mind, Visualization, meditation etc.) Choose two practices that you have determined to be most beneficial. How can you implement these practices in your personal life to foster “mental fitness”? Provide specific examples.



Hi everyone,

Being that I completed this question for unit 7 seminar written assignment and I strongly feel the way I do about the exercises that were discussed in this course so far, so I will share my answer to the question the I wrote with you all. My most beneficial exercises in this course was The Loving- Kindness, and Subtle Mind. I love them both. Now here is my answer I gave to the question above.

The first exercise that I truly love dearly is The Loving-Kindness exercise. This is exercise was one of the first exercises that caught my attention and really was beneficial for me and the ones around me. This exercise allowed me to be able to not only focus on my needs and the things that were dear to me, but also the things that were dear to others. In the profession I work in there are people that are on their last leg of life in their eyes and feel that there may not be anything else to live for. There are many people who I work with that are always complaining of different things some small some big that always seems to remember that there are some people less fortunate  right now in their lives.  I could use this exercise with the patients that comes through the clinic every day to help them focus on the big picture so they may obtain interpersonal flourishing, so that later they will be able to obtain human flourishing. My target group for this exercise in my profession would maybe the adolescent and elderly patients that we see every day. The reason for this group is because one group has maybe already known of these thoughts, but doesn’t know how to practice them to help them help themselves. The other group is to teach them the way they should think in there growth in life. In order to implement the form of exercise I may try and use it in the nutrition class that is taught to the diabetics at our clinic. I think these two groups will benefit from this practice because it helps with the way you think of life. The next exercise would be The Subtle Mind. This exercise is something that everyone should do daily. A healthy mind makes a healthy person complete. I may implement this exercise by allowing the patients to read about what it mean and then allowing them to practice to see rather it takes effect on them(Cobb,U,2010).