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Exercise: The Mind-Body Connection
The mind is an incredibly powerful thing. It has the ability to
inspire us, encourage us, motivate us, or stress us, overwhelm us or
depress us. When we understand the intimate connection of the Mind
and Body, we can begin to understand why we feel the way we feel and
we can even learn how to transform the way we feel through the use
of the mind and also the body.
Practitioners of the ancient art of meditation, for thousands of
years have claimed that learning how to subdue and control the mind
has led to greater feelings of wellbeing and happiness, along with
greater physical and mental health and capacity. This is what we are
going to be exploring in this
section of this report.
Each and every one of us
possesses the capacity to think.
We think all day long about the
various aspects of our life that
we deem it necessary to think
about, but what happens when our
thoughts are focused on negative and detrimental aspects of our
lives?
The answer is... we feel bad. This may seem like a very simple way
of saying it but that is exactly what happens.
If we sit and think about a loved one experiencing a terrible trauma
or finding themselves in a life threatening situation we experience
great anxiety as the result of that thought. At the same time if we
imagine the feeling of peace that comes from floating aimlessly on
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