1.       The Loving Kindness exercise was very relaxing and soothing to me. It almost felt like a meditation to me and I enjoyed it. I feel as though there is never really time in the day to sit down and relax and just basically focus on our breathing in and slowly breathing all the stress out. I like things like this because I can go in my room and it is quiet and this makes me feel as though I am not on earth for a few minutes and I cannot feel any stress or bad emotions; just a calming feeling. I would recommend this to people because it cannot hurt and only help them.

2.       I think that mental workouts may sound doubtful at first because we cannot see physical results that we would see if we did a physical workout in a gym or something. However, I definitely do think that it works. My Journalism teacher in school would make us draw a chart or a web and sort our emotions and feelings. It makes us dig deeper into our thoughts and actually allows us to feel more organized and understand things better. Our minds become smarter when we think outside the box and use our mind in different ways than we normally do.