Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Mental Workout

Hello everyone,
It is not possible for us to evolve our psychospiritual life and access its capacities and resources without daily practice. Those daily practices, such as the Loving-Kindness exercise and the Subtle Mind practice, are mental workouts. The Loving-Kindness practice opens our hearts to others and gradually diminish self-centeredness, priming our mind for further development. The Subtle Min practice addresses the three levels of the subtle mind: witnessing, calm-abiding, and unity consciousness. It opens our mind and reveals a penetrating wisdom that knows the truth of our life and of existence. Loving-Kindness and wisdom are the essential elements that heal at the source and drive human flourishing. The most meaningful aim of contemplative practice is not rest and relaxation but rather the progressive development of an expanded consciousness and its healing capacities. These mental workouts help us tame and train the mind, open the heart, expand consciousness, and progress toward psychospiritual flourishing. We implement mental workouts to foster our psychological health as we engage in contemplative practices to continue traveling the path of human flourishing.

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