Loving Kindness

This week we had to do the exercise Loving Kindness from Dacher. I did not really find this exercise beneficial. This one was hard for me to do and concentrate on as it was more of making yourself feel a certain way, and I am just not good at feelings. I guess it is just my personality. I am generally a pretty mid range person, it takes a lot to make me upset and it takes a lot to make me feel badly. I don't get too excited over things either. I am normally happy and laughable, I just stay mid range pretty much all the time. Someone sitting there telling em to feel love and feel kindness and project those feelings just did not work for me. It was easy to find the person in my life I have loving feelings for, I used my Grandmother who passed away in Feb of 2010, but I just could not get into the mindset of the exercise.
I don't know if I would recommend this exercise to others due to the difficulty I had with it. I don't think this is for everyone, I think you have to be of a certain mindset to begin with for something like this to work.
Mental workouts are simply what they say they are. Working out your mind using tools, exercises and different techniques to achieve a certain level of mental capacity or well being. Like those brain trainers you see all the time advertised. Those are a form of mental workouts. You are training your mind to see things a certain way and to be able to respond quicker to numbers, pictures and letters. Just like a mentally disabled person, they continually do "mental workouts" with them to improve their cognitive skills as well as simple skills like reading and writing. You can implement mental workouts to assist your mental health by practicing relaxation techniques, meditations and feel good exercises like the one we tried this week. Granted, they will not all work for everyone, but I do believe that the right workout for the right person can probably produce some awesome results.