My Favorite Exercises

My favorite exercises that we have taken in this so far has to be the relaxation exercise that was one of our initial exercise and the loving kindness exercise. The relaxation exercise was one of my favorites because it was sort of a new beginning to me. It opened me up to being able to do the other exercises and helped me to relax enough to put myself in a mind state that allowed me to complete all of the next activities. The loving kindness exercise had to be one of my other favorites because it allowed me to develop and reach a level of compassion and love that always has been beneath the surface of me. This exercise touched a part of me that I rarely show and bought that part of me to the surface. This exercise allowed me to find out where the loving-kind part of me was and how to bring that side of me to the surface. I really enjoyed all the exercises as they have taken me on a roller coaster of emotions but each exercise has taught me something individually and it is unique to see how much you can learn from the good and bad aspects of the things you do.

Meeting Aesclepius

In this weeks assignment  we get a look at what a clear mind is and looks like. It gives us a look at our inner healer. I like this exercise because it made me feel comfortable and happy with the creating a healer from my own mind. I feel as though I can continue to use these exercises to foster a more calm mind in stressful environments and to try to heal myself through having a strong control over my mind. I believe these practices can help me deal with stress and anger that build up and arise on an everyday basis in my life. "One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself", applies to health and wellness profession by saying that you can not guide an individual to having a clear consciousness or to a deeper mind state if that is a place that you, yourself have not been mentally. Only a person that has been to a certain can describe how that place is to another individual. I feel as though a practitioner should be developing all aspects of his or herself so that they will always be able to provide patients with the best care that they can. There are many ways to implement psychological and spiritual growth in your life such as growing to church, meditation, reading and puzzles as well as sports and anything that allows deeper concentration.

Loving Kindness Exercise and Travelers Assessment

In doing the loving kindness exercise from pg. 93 of our book I feel as though I discovered somewhat more of my sensitive side. I thought about individuals all across the world as I uttered the phrases that were required to complete the assignment. In thinking about all these individuals it made me realize that there is always someone out there who has it worse than I do and that I should be happy for what I do have and use it to try to help the people I can. I discovered my heart is much bigger than I tend to think it is from doing this exercise. In doing the travelers assessment I focused more on my anger and attitude as it sometimes keeps me from accomplishing tasks and gets the best of me. I think meditation is going to be a great exercise that I can use to foster improvement in this area because it will help me think and focus. I think I lose a lot of focus when I am angry and to remain focused would definitely keep me from losing control. I think the breathing part of meditation will be vital to me improving my anger issues as well as the calming effect it will have on my body.

Loving Kindness vs The Subtle Mind

I personally enjoyed the Subtle mind exercise much better than the loving kindness exercise. I felt that the subtle mind exercise put me more in touch with my body and mind. I think the breathing of this exercise put me in a calmer, more relaxed mood as I was able to relate to this exercise much better than the loving kindness exercise. The loving kindness exercise had my mind all over the place while this exercise had my mind rooted into one basic emotional state of calmness. I feel that spiritual wellness is connected to mental and physical wellness by creating a oneness. If one aspect is not well than the whole body is not well. I feel to be completely well is to be in good shape in the physical, spiritual and mental aspects of the body.

Dr. Love

The loving kindness aspect of the Unit 4 assignment was different than I expected. I t was somewhat weird because it made me think about someone I really love and than transfer that to my body. I did not find it beneficial at the time I did it because I think I was too focused on other things to really grasp a great concept of this weeks assignment. I would recommend this assignment to others but only once they have a clear mind because I feel that this exercise can and will only be beneficial to those with clear minds. The concept of a mental workout is to keep the brain trained to move from one elemental form of thinking and doing to another. This gives the individual practice at being in the soundest of mental states at all times. This can be beneficial to your health mentally and physically. It can reduce stress, headaches and body pains that are associated with stress as well as give an individual a sense of purpose or being. You can use mental workouts to deal with everyday life events and stress. This can help you come to a calm mental state anytime without stressing too much about one particular thing.

My overall Health

In this unit we discuss the overall health of our own physical, spiritual and psychological being. I think overall my physical well being at a 7 on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being optimal. I think my physical well-being is a 7 because I am physically fit and very muscular but my weight exceeds what it should. I eat healthy most of the time and I do have my days where I eat a lot of unhealthy foods. My spiritual wee-being is at a 5 because I am aware of a higher power and my spiritual side but do not feel as though I am close to that side of my being. My psychological state is rated at an 8. I live a relatively stress free life and am very calm in stressful situations. I rated this an eight because I do stress sometimes though it is not for long periods. My goal in my physical being is to exercise more often then I do now and possibly get my weight down to a better range. My spiritual goal will be to get in touch with my spiritual side as I do not feel I am that spiritual. My psychological goal will be to maintain the levels of what I have been doing as I feel that I am doing a good job in this area. In order to accomplish my goals in my physical being I will go to the gym an extra time or two throughout the week and plan my meals so I will have structure into what I am eating. I plan to start trying meditation and maybe just getting to know myself better to accomplish reaching my goals on spirituality and to reach my psychological goals I will have to deal with stress and objects that may cause issues to ones mental health states the way that I have always dealt with it. The relaxation exercise was similar to the first one but for some reason I felt a little discomfort doing this exercise. I think it is because I am not in touch with my spiritual side like that so this exercise sort of proved that because it seems you have to be in touch with yourself to do it.

Journey of Relaxation

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog spot. I am very excited to get to meet everyone this semester and look forward to reading the comments on my blog as well as reading all my classmates blogs. In listening to the Journey on relaxation exercise, I found the exercise to be rather soothing. I did not think the exercise was going to informational at all and it was surprising in the amount of information that the Journey on relaxation exercise produced. It was a new experience for me to be able to learn some new things in a relaxed state as I am usually uptight when I am supposed to be learning new things. I felt that the exercise was an enjoyable experience as I think it opened me up to this class.