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.