Loving Kindness

I felt as though this was a good excercise, but I still find it hard for me to stay focused for extended periods of time. However, it was relaxing to some degree. I really thought the girls voice was calming and the ocean music was nice but I just feel like I need to start out with smaller time frames like Dacher said and work my way up in order to train my mind to do it. I would probably still recommend this to someone else though because like I said unlike last weeks excercise I did find this one beneficial just a little too long for me.
The concept of mental workout is basically training your mind to be able to meditate or calm your mind into a different thinking. These are broken down into two groups that we learned about including loving kindness and the subtle mind. Loving kindness is more calming the mind and subtle mind in more stilling the mind. Research has proven that you can train your mind with continuous excercise and training. You can implement mental workouts to help build a psychospiritual relationship by training your mind to calm yourself so that you can relax and think about your well being in a happy and healthier light.

My physical, spiritual and psychological health

When I think about my health it is common for me to automatically think about my physical health and maybe sometimes my emotional, but not really my spiritual at all. As for my physical health I would probably only rate it at a 5-6 I am actually fairly healthy as far as I dont really have any diseases other than hypothyroidism. However, I do need to lose weight before my weight does cause my health additional problems. I am doing a lot better now though and have already lost 15lbs this last month so I am starting to feel a little better and with the workouts I am doing I know physically my body is also getting stronger which is great! Emotionally, I would say I am around a 7 other than my appearance and how it effects me emotionally I really have a pretty great life. I have a wonderful husband, 3 beautiful kids, and a great sister and mother who I am extremely close with as well as my best friend who is also a very important part of my life. The only other thing that ever seems to make things hard emotionally is money, but really we have what we need it would just be nice to have the things we want too lol. Finally, my spiritual health is where I believe it needs to be I have a good relationship with God and I believe I am able to relax and take comfort in my life and where it is, so I would rate it close to 8 or 9.
My goals would have to be to physically lose the weight that I feel is dragging me down, which would actually help with all three of my goals. So, my physical goal is to continue to eat well and to excercise so that I may continue on with my weight loss journey. My emotional goals would be to find the small things that I like about myself and focus on those so that I may eventually have a better self esteem. Finally, my spiritual goal is to start to let things go that dont matter. Sometimes I feel like I let the little stuff bother me for to long, when really I should just lay it out for God to help me deal with.
The relaxation excercise for me this week was kind of pointless, although he did have a deep calming voice I felt myself not able to relax at all. I dont know if it was him constantly saying imagine a light, or the fact that he kept pausing while speaking but I was definitely having a really hard time relaxing. So, for me it was not beneficial at all.
Have a great week everyone and good luck with your goals!

Over the years I have struggled with losing and gaining weight over and over, it feels like a neverending battle which only got worse when I got diagnosed with hypothyroidism. A few years ago I was able to lose a lot of the weight I had been struggling with and then between having kids and constantly being on the run (too much fast food) I gained most of it back, then that was when I was also diagnosed with hypothyroidism. Now for the last 2 years no matter how many diets I have tried I just get stressed and worn out after only losing a few pounds a month with a whole lot of work. I feel like a lot of this stress comes from whats expected as our publics views. For example, if you have ever watched the biggest loser everyone who is overweight would love for it to just be as easy as they make it look. I mean yes they are working hard but they lose the weight in no time, but they also have no real lives there when they go home it gets a lot harder. Which is why for the rest of us it is so difficult. I have found ways to relax and use excercise to help myself concentrate on just me and this has helped me tremendously in my weight loss journey and just on the overall journey of being the me I want to be.