Loving-Kindness

Once again when trying to do the loving kindness exercise this week, I found it hard to concentrate and relax enough to get the full benefits of it.  I think it's mainly because I've again been very busy and not any kind of organized, which is making pretty much every day seem crazy!  I can't stop thinking about other stuff long enough to fully get through this exercise yet, so I'm going to continue to try it out through the rest of the week (since that's what the book suggests doing) and then I'm going to update my blog about it.  I will say that the second day I tried it I was able to focus just a little more than the first day so I assume it will get better by Tuesday!  I would actually recommend others trying this exercise, but you really do need to take the authors advice and make sure to schedule it in like you do everything else in a day to make sure you actually have time to do it without worrying about what you have to do the rest of the day!

Mental workout basically means spending as much time making your mind fit as you do for your body.  This is done in the opposite way, however, using silence, reflection, and meditation as opposed to most intense exercises we do to keep the outter parts of us in shape. Research shows that benefits from these workouts can yield short and long term effects on the brain and can reflect in our health and overall well-being.  Taking time for daily meditation is probably the best way to reap the benefits one can have from these workouts.