Random Thoughts Exercise

I am completing this assignment on the last day of the school week. I’m barely fitting it in between work, my husband, preparing for Thanksgiving, and shoveling snow. As I sat down to listen to the subtle mind exercise my mind everywhere. I could call this exercise the random thoughts exercise. I couldn’t keep my focus on my breath and I could barely stand to spend 20 minutes sitting still. I wish the circumstances of my day didn’t have such an effect on my ability to grow from this exercise, but it did. There were, gratefully, a few moments of true introspection in which I was able to witness my thoughts and let them drift away as I focused on my breath.

The loving kindness exercise from last week focused outside my body; I was focusing on loved ones and even strangers. This subtle mind exercise focused internally. I had an easier time last week when the exercise gave me a person, a loved one to direct my thoughts to.

These exercises are all part of the integral health process which aims to increase one’s overall health. The spiritual, mental, and physical parts are all connected and therefore if one is not healthy, all are not healthy. On the flip side improvements made in one area positively affect the others. I experience this most noticeably when I am not exercising regularly. If I feel dragged down and out of shape physically my mental fitness and spiritual wellbeing are also unfit.