My Experience after listening to the Loving Kindness CD was an experience and practice that I had first experienced while I was a resident at a homeless shelter after first moving to Washington, DC. Throughout my life I have experienced different aspects of the human experience. While at the shelter I had to get some way of relaxing and some way of escaping the the chaos and negativity of my surroundings. I was working as a private duty nurse caring for a patient who was a former internal medicine physician who was suffering from advanced stages of Parkinson's disease. After ending my shift I would return to the shelter and immediately get bombarded by the reactivity, negativity and other crap from the other residents of the shelter. I was in sore need of a means to relax and clear my mind to prevent my absorption of their expereinces. I purchased a relaxation CD and a CD player and began my journey into Lisa's world of relaxation and the Human Loving Kindness experience.
I would lay on my bunk bed, put on my headphones, start my CD and enter into my own world. I would follow the CD instructions and slowly feel the tension and worries of the day vanish from my awareness.
The Dacher CD is just another approach to the same outcome of finding inner loving kindness and training yourself to administer loving kindness to those epople in your direct contact. I found this tract to be beneficial, however somewhat difficult to accomplish with my roommate around. He tends to be the needy type and my direct attention needs to directed towards him and what he is doing at the time. If one can shut yourself off from the outside world for a few moments, it is reather helpful.
I would definitely recommend it to others, mainlky me clients because it provides the user with a guide to direct the user to the realm or relaxation by giving them a focal point and a path to reach relaxation.
The concept of "Mental Workout" is comprised of the aspects of clearing the mind of the "clutter", reducing stress, develop better sleep patterns, overcoming fears and phobias and increasing overall happiness. Reaseach indictes that by giving yourself a menatal workout helps to keep the brain stimulated and active. By implementing a regular mental finess workout program it can help to clear the negativity to make more room for positive aspacts and allows for more intellectual development.
References
Dacher, Elliott S., M. D., (CD) The Path to Human Flourishing, Contemplative Practices: An Audio Companion to Integral Health
Maximize the Cognative Value of Your Mental Workout/Sharpbrains, retrieved December 5, 2010 from http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2008/02/21/maximize-the...
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I have a few experiences with relaxtion cds. Being on a ship and living with 140 very loud and rude females for 6 months at time, you have to find your own little corner to escape to. I found solice in my head phones and ipod.
ReplyDeleteI would like to thank you for all the references you listed. I hope to use them so that I can learn. I have a hard time with the mindfulness exercises and I cannot quite get the hang of them. i tend to get these headaches really bad from them.I lose focus and i sometimes get to sleepy to finish also. so they are difficult.I am also raising 2 little grandbabies that have special needs and demands that makes it hard for me to find the time I need each day to try to learn so I am diligently seeking advice on help to find better focus and how I can make these exercises beneficial to me more. any suggestions?
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