Hello everyone. The two practices that I have chosen are the Loving Kindness and the subtle mind practices. I liked the Loving Kindness exercise because it opened up an area of myself that I really didn’t pay much attention to, but is very important in life. That area is the expression of love towards not only you but to other people as well. You could say that it awakened certain emotions that had been ignored for years.

            The subtle mind practice allowed me to focus on breathing, and at the same time, focus on clearing my mind. This practice is intended to train the mind to control the activity that races through the mind by acknowledging these thoughts and then letting them dissolve.

            These practices can be implemented on a day-to-day basis by practicing them. The more these practices are done, on a daily basis, the more developed one becomes, thus, developing a greater control of mental chatter. This will lead to a more controlled thought process, and decisions will be made intentionally instead of reactively or with no thought.