1. I haven't completed the full week yet, but did start the practice exercise on Wednesday. Since the book wanted us to do it twice a day I kind of made the exercise my own and tweaked it a little. The exercise is first suppose to help you focus on someone you really care about and love then turn that inwards on yourself. This helped to prepare me to not only see the love the other person has for me, but also to really see how much love I have for them. I also know of a personal situation they are going through and started to send that same love back mentally to them and I can honestly say that I have seen a positive change not only in my life, but their life as well. The second session I actually used to for the second part of the exercise. The second part wants us to take anyone that we perceive as an enemy, but actually send positive feelings towards them which will hopefully help the relationship between me and them to change. The reason I switched this to the end of the day is because it allowed me to analyze any problems I had throughout the day and the people associated with those problems. I haven't really noticed any changes in them yet either, because they were patients that I saw initially but haven't made it back to my work yet. I really did find this beneficial and would recommend other people to do this. It will be interesting to see how the rest of the week of practice goes and to really see if the ones I considered my "enemies" actually end up being a great relationship!
2. The idea of a mental workout can be compared to the same thing as a physical workout for your body, but as the name suggests it's for your mind. For example the loving kindness practice would be a mental workout that you can do continually or once in a while. By doing this it will allow me to not only expand my mind on my inner self, but eventually it will also allow me to get to the spiritual aspects of consciousness that Dacher is describing in our book.
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