Unit 5 Post

1. Compare and contrast the Loving Kindness exercise and the Subtle mind exercise. Explain your experience including the benefits, frustrations etc.
2. Discuss the connection of the spiritual wellness to mental and physical wellness. Explain how the connection is manifested in your personal life.

1. To arrive at my point quickly I will just say that I have never been one to really dig deep into feelings nor have I ever decided to sit down and think about things in the dark or anything like that. With that said, I feel like I took much more out of the Loving Kindness exercise, as opposed to the subtle mind exercise. Honestly I thought the subtle mind exercise was complete crap for a lack of better words, simply because I just cannot relate to it, nor apply myself to it. 

2. Spiritual wellness, mental wellness, and physical wellness are all very closely tied together. Studies have shown that with at least 20 minutes of exercise per day among college students, those whom exercised actually carried a half of letter grade better GPA than those who did not participate in exercise daily. This type of connection is present in my life as well. I feel that once I started exercising in my daily regimen again, things just started to fall into place for me. I started to feel better, which in turn made me much more happy throughout the day, and thus I have been promoted 3 times over the past 7 months. I think that is truly a reflection of the interconnectedness of the mind, body, and spirit.