Loving Kindness exercise focuses on someone you are close with, such as a family member and friends, then bring positive thoughts and images from outside your own brain. Subtle mind exercise focuses on breathing and its technique. Those who practice subtle mind exercise believes that if calming breathing technique helps calm one's mind.
In a way, these two exercises are very similar regarding calming nerves, and simply relaxing. But they are both very different styles. Loving Kindness exercise need participants to think of someone they care about. On the other hand, subtle mind exercise just wants them to think of the way they breath.
I use both exercises. When I want to pray and read the Bible, I would like to use Loving Kindness exercises so that I can think of what God has done for me very sincerely. But when I play sports or work out, I tend to use the breathing skills to settle my breath. So I use both exercises depending on the situation.
Secondly, spiritual wellness to mental and physical wellness are deeply connected. Simply because the mind and the body are connected. Human has this routine of "think and act". We think to act. We act to think. So they can't be separated. As I write this post, I'm thinking what to write next or how to convey the message that I want to emphasize. Thus, they are both deeply connected.
Hi Hiro, it's actually a good idea to kind of co-ordinate the type of practice to the type of activity. I do think though you're lucky as both techniques seem to be equally successful for you.
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