Hello Professor and Class: The exercise for this unit was a little too relaxing for me. There was too much quiet time for thinking plus the sound of the water and chimes put me to sleep. I tried to focus but it was too difficult for me. I understand the concept behind the exercise.
Practicing Loving-Kindness is very important to me. As a manager I want to appear approachable to my instructors. This way they will feel comfortable talking about their problems relating to work. I can help them become better instructors if I understand where they are coming from.
In everyday life I practice Loving-Kindness with my children and husband. Talk about a challenge because we do not see eye-to-eye on most things. I try to be open-minded and I try not to take things personally. That is the hardest for me. I am sensitive and my feelings get hurt quickly. Again, I look at things through their eyes and world. My vision is that if they know I care enough to see their point of view they will meet me halfway in most situations.
I would recommend this exercise to others if I felt they were capable of holding their attention for that long. I do not think this exercise is for everyone. It takes an individual with a quiet mind and the ability to focus for long periods of time.
The concept of the "mental workout" is the perquisite for this exercise. We must first learn how to quiet our minds and attain the wisdom to understand others prospective. Anyone can benefit from the "mental workout" because it can result in great knowledge and it also allows you to teach yourself at your own pace. Practicing Psychological development allows us to focus on destructive emotions that hurt the people we care about the most. We learn by doing and this results in a healthier set of attitudes' and behaviors.
Cherie
Cherie,
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad you said this exercise was too relaxing, because I felt the same way! The long pauses between talking, and the background noise made me so tired and made it hard to focus. I think practicing love and kindness at work can be beneficial for everyone, including managers. You have the right idea to use it to help you be more approachable and easier to talk to. I think for me as an employee, it can help me work better with coworkers, and have an easier time when handling customers. Great post!
Hi Allison:Thank-You for your reply. I think it is great we can all use these exercises to benefits us in different aspects of our jobs. If this helps you work well with co-workers then that benefits your manager becasue he/she will have less conflicts to deal with among employees. It also promotes higher work production.
DeleteOk I have to totally agree with you on the "too relaxing" part. Don't get me wrong I love to relax and all but this one at the end did put me to sleep. I agree with what you said about too much quiet time. That ocean noise in the background is kind of my weakness for sleep anyway ha. Loving and kindness is just seemed to be overlooked these days. I recently got married and had to do a lot of calling around and stopping into places that I had never been to to do all sorts of name change things. It has been recently that I have realized how rude and just mean people are these days. It seemed as though anyone I called or stopped in to were just rude and acted as though I were wasting their time and made me feel so stupid (mind you all they had to do was their job). I think that people get so hyped up at work about negative things going on that they forget to really take care of the customer or client. A little kindness can really go a long ways. I also had to unfortunately deal with a collection agency (which the company WAS in the wrong for sending me to, but thats another story) and the guy was so mean to me when all I was trying to do was figure out where all my money was going and where this bill was coming from that he literally made me cry, and that is not like me at all. It is days like that where these exercises are so great and what makes me want to spread the word on mental health. Seems as though a lot of the people I had to deal with could really use it!!
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