After completing both the loving-kindness exercise and the assessment I must say I enjoyed the loving kindness exercise more. The loving kindness exercise felt almost like praying and I like the fact that it incorporated other people. It makes me feel so good when I can help other people and when doing the exercise I felt connected to everyone and I felt like I loved everyone in the world.
I don’t know why but the assessment almost made me feel selfish after doing the loving-kindness exercise. I feel like this exercise made me calmly think about what I need to change in my life. It was just a more calming approach to my mental to do list verses things going through my head constantly throughout my hectic day.
The area I chose for growth and development is Worldly flourishing. I work 6 days per week at least 9 hours per day and I typically don’t take a lunch break, I eat at my desk while working. I love to work hard, love my job and am dedicated to my job but I feel like I need to take some of that focus and put it towards other types of rewarding social activities like volunteering or running a marathon for a charity and fundraising money. I want my focus more spread out instead of just being focused on my current career. I have always wanted to be a mentor for a child and I think that would be a great thing to do for me to foster wellness in this area.
Great post, I also enjoyed the loving kindness exercise more than the assessment. I agree that the exercise helped me to also see what I needed to change in life because it is important to understand that there are others that do have it far worse than us within this world. I find it to be great that you would like to put time into volunteering your time to help others as well. That is something that is great and can really make a difference in one's life.
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of voulenteer work. I have done it in the past, but it's been a really long time. I know back many years ago when I was struggling with some things, it felt like that instead of focusing on "poor me" I should try and help someone else who really needed it. Brought me a little inner peace that I needed.
ReplyDeleteI have also started doing 5k's that always charge a fee and then donate that money to a good cause. Just recently I've started actually looking up races that sponser things I really care about, instead of just whatever is the next race. Gives me good feelings.
I was more for the assessment and less for the loving kindness exercise, but I like the way you put it and I can understand where you are coming from. :)