This experience was a very pleasant one for me. I found it particularly beneficial when it asked to focus the love and kindness that you felt for your loved ones to everyone, including your enemies. I don't have many enemies, in fact I don't feel that I have any. I do have some people that I do not like so much for various reasons. But when I imagined them in front of me and wished for them happiness and kindness, I began to view these "enemies" in a different light. I definitely feel that this practice is could be beneficial to many other people as well and I would definitely recommend it.
The concept of a mental workout is to contemplative practice to exercise our spiritual mind. This helps us to achieve a higher level of consciousness. The benefits include being at ease, peaceful and kind. This will help us to evolve our consciousness and in turn help our physiological health.
Melanie,
ReplyDeleteIt is great that you were able to use this exercise to ease the way you feel about some of the others around you. I think the less time you spend disliking someone else the more time you can spend loving the ones that are important in your life.