1. Review the exercises and practice sessions you have completed in this course. (Loving Kindness, Subtle mind, Visualization, meditation etc.) Choose two practices that you have determined to be most beneficial.

The two practices that I have determined to be most beneficial to me are Loving Kindness and The Subtle Mind.



How can you implement these practices in your personal life to foster “mental fitness”? Provide specific examples.

I can implement these practices in my personal life to foster “mental fitness” by developing a higher consciousness by obtaining the ability to reliably access the deeper layers of my mind. This is what transforms a glimpse of what is possible into a way of life. I am able to progress through the psychospiritual levels of development with a single practice, the subtle mind practice. I am able to progress through the psychospiritual levels of development with a single practice.
Loving-kindness continuously reminds me to endure well-being and requires a diminished focus on myself and my own needs and an enhanced concern and compassion for the welfare of others. This places me directly and firmly on the path to integral health and life. From experience it is confirmed that loving-kindness attracts loving-kindness. When I attract loving-kindness, my mind is calmer and a far better candidate for contemplative practice. Although, initially I must practice this mental attitude, there will be time in the development of my psychospiritual life that loving-kindness will reveal itself as a natural and effortless aspect of higher consciousness. Then I will no longer have to cultivate this attitude or quality through practice.
The Subtle Mind also reminds me that enduring well-being requires cultivation of wisdom. I cultivate wisdom by taming and training my mind, accessing its deeper levels, and exploring the essential nature of mind and experience. I begin by taming my busy mind. I learn how to diminish the ceaseless mental movements of thoughts, feelings, and images. When I practice regularly, I am definitely able to still my mind and develop a witnessing consciousness that subsequently progresses toward the stable and facile mind of calm-abiding.