Hello again,
With this weeks audios it was hard for me to focus.
I have been sick and was not able to focus the way that I would like. As I
listened to the loving kindness I found that I focused my thoughts on my
daughter. My daughter is my world, and I want to teach her so many things. I
feel that loving-kindness expressed in the audio I show with my daughter every
day. I can only hope that my daughter will also show it to others. The people
in our lives won’t be here forever and we need to show that love and kindness
to them every chance that we can. All of this makes me think that we need to
treasure everything and everyone. I cannot help that anything having to do with
love, makes me think of my daughter first and foremost.
When we had to think of someone suffering the person
I thought of was a parent from my work. I work in a daycare and take care of
infants. One of the children in my class, her mother has stage 4 breast cancer.
In a few weeks she has to have surgery. When she was talking to us she was telling
us that she had her breasts would be gone the next time we saw her... to say
goodbye to the ladies and she laughed. She is sitting here trying to make the
best out of a hard situation with a smile on her face. It broke my heart, she
has two young children and you just do not know what will happen. Over the next
few weeks my thoughts and prayers will be with the family.
The concept of “mental workout” is to work-out the
mind or you can say exercising your mental state. Our minds need to be exercised
just as our bodies do. Mental workouts can benefit us to be a better person, a
loving-kindness person. Mental workouts help to relax oneself, and bring a
person to a calmness. I am not sure how they can foster my psychological
health. I do know that I need to do mental and physical workouts to help me be
a better person and a healthier person. I want to set an example for my
daughter.
Jessica
Dasher,
E. M.D (2006) Integral health: the path to human flourishing, Laguna
Beach, California
(P.S. Sorry post shows sunday and not on saturday. I accidentaly deleted the first one.)
Hello Jessica
ReplyDeleteA mother's love is a force of nature that is unsurpassable. I have two teenage son's whom I have been rearing since their father and I divorced in 2005. When I look at what wonderful young men they're turning out to be my heart becomes overwhelmed with joy and thanksgiving. You know our society has a sterotype that says young men of divorce have troubled lives. But I can testify 100% not so. I often refer to my young men as my "men of standards". Since their birth I have raise them in the fear and admiration of our Creator, Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. They Bible says "train a child the way they should go and when they are old they would not depart." All I can say is Amen to that.