Unit 4 Loving-Kindness Exercise

I must admit I found the Loving-Kindness exercise to be the most frustrating one of all. She kept pausing so I could visualize whatever she was talking about, but I could not visualize anything. I found myself wanting her to hurry up and finish so I could go on with my day. Perhaps with practice this will get better for me, but I am not holding my breath. I would not recommend this to anyone because I don't recommend things that I personally don't find useful.
A mental workout, or contemplative practice, is the method and the tool we use to explore our inner selves; our inner minds. Research indicates that learning to explore our minds and train them to allow ourselves to be calm and caring we can improve our own health as well as that of others. You can implement mental workouts by meditating daily and beginning to train your brain to achieve calm and loving-kindness.

Unit 2

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As for the exercise in listening, I was not very successful. I did not feel anything that he said I should feel; my hands and arms did not get heavy or warm, and I had no trouble lifting my arms up. I have found that I am not very good at creating a mental image, and am wondering if that simply isn't the way my brain works or if I am somehow failing in an important aspect of life? When I took another course, we were read instructions to imagine that we were sucking on a lemon; everyone else in the class was complaining about the sour taste it left in their mouths, but I didn't experience anything like that.