Aesclepius Practice

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            During this week I practiced the Meeting Aesclepius four times, doing it twice a day. I feel like this particular practice takes time to get used to. The first time I listened to it I thought that it was kind of out there for me, but the more practiced the more understood. I think that the Meeting Aeclepius practice is something which you have to have an open imagination and mind about. I believe that mindfulness and meditation increase my psychological wellness by allowing other opportunities into my life then just environmental aspects. In order to continue applying these practices is to schedule a time that can be just for me to relax and work on training my brain. The saying, “one cannot lead another were one has not gone himself” meaning that if there is not personal experience with what one is teaching, then there will be a void when educating it. This apply's to a wellness professional by suggesting that you can not understand and track a clients progress of the mind, body and spirit if you have not practiced yourself. I feel like there is an obligation to patients to keep up with flourishing health because everyone goes through human flourishing in different ways, if you are not experienced and educated on the signs then there may be signs that would not be picked up. The way to implement psychological and spiritual growth into my personal life would be using Loving-kindness, Subtle mind and meditation practices in order to work daily on training my brain to consciously be opened. Hope to hear from yal!

Steph

Focus Of Growth and Development

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                     During the universal loving-kindness meditation I felt like there was a lot of different people I have known throughout my life that I found myself thinking about, randomly popping up in my memories. Even people I do not keep in contact with anymore. This is what I discovered about myself is that things and people I did not think I cared about anymore, suddenly I wished for them happiness, joy and safety. The area that I chose is worldly to focus and develop, because consistently I feel like I am a small speck in the world at times it is very intimidating and gives me a feeling of helplessness. The activities I feel that can be implemented to foster greater wellness can be volunteering and assisting at centers for people less fortunate, those who do not have the time to worry about being a speck but where their next meal will come from. Trying to be more apart of the wold to feel alive, instead of being a shadow. Hope to hear from yal!

Steph

Subtle Mind

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                    I honestly feel that this weeks listening exercise was a big impact for me in my life this week. With everything that is going on during the day like work, practice, working out and homework I believe that the subtle mind exercise was perfect. The subtle mind exercise was very unique allowing the listener to train their brain in order to block out grasping distractions. The loving kindness exercise was more about emotional connection with people, enemies or not. Also you were to feel the hurt of others, which is a hard concept to establish. Both are wonderful exercises, however I do believe that the subtle mind was harder for me to pay attention to and outside distractions were easier to get in. I think that the subtle mind will be one that I will incorporate in my daily routine to balance my mind, body and spiritual wellness. I can not believe the peace of mind that can be felt if you have fully trained your brain to focus on the silence. When practicing the loving kindness I feel that it was a little deep for my comfort level a times. I do not like a cry nor really get overly drastic towards any emotion, except for being happy. However, the exercise brought up very strong emotions in which I believe I do need to work on, for that I believe I would use this exercise. The connection of the spiritual wellness to mental and physical wellness means that without all three in balance and peace there will not be full flourishing towards life. The body is connected by its muscles, emotions and thoughts, which all bind together. Spiritual wellness allows the mind and the body the have charge, hope and the will to keep going. The mind is not worth being if it is not in good thoughts and a peaceful state, just like the body is not worth being if it is not energetic and ready to be. Spirituality allows for stress levels to go down and negative emotions to decrease, leaving a flourishing state and total mind, body and spirit control. I really enjoyed this week, excited to hear back.

Steph

Loving- Kindness

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                     My experience towards the Loving- Kindness exercise definitely surprised me by how it made me feel after finishing it. Even though you are supposed to practice it two times a day, my first time practicing it made me feel better towards others and their feelings. I personally have very heavy anxiety when it comes to environments packed with people I do not know and I feel like this exercise can help with that, by not looking at those individuals as worldly people but as a part of the human race who experiences attitudes, emotions and well-being just like mine. I would recommend this exercise to others most definitely, however I would recommend practicing it in a very quit environment. I found that during the times when the waves were just heard my mind began to wonder as to the dull sounds around me. I believe that concept of mental workout is the act of training the brain to be a guide to our choices, actions and thoughts. Research indicates that the benefits of mental health are ultimately human flourishing, focusing on the part of the body that controls the rest. Use the mental workouts to educate and put the mind in a healthy state were it can focus on the psychological health. Hope to hear great feedback!

Steph

My Physical, Spiritual and Psychological Well-Being

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            This week has been hectic for me from work, school, inner battles and more, but this unit has helped me to work some of these activities out. I would give my physical well being a score of 8 because I frequently exercise and practice good physical health. My daily routine consistently works out my physical being and I am always working to make it better. My spiritual well being is given a score of 4 explaining that this aspect of my life has fallen severely in the past few years, my hope was gone and I did not know were to find it or who to find it in. I feel that I run from spiritual well being and the answer of why is a mystery to me, but I am working to make it stronger. For psychological well being I would give myself a score of 6 because it is not one of my strong suits either. I feel sometimes the second everything is in the right spot or state there is always something else that comes along to confuse it and occasionally do not get it back.

            My goal for physical well being is to focus on my physical self while being aware of the spiritual and psychological aspects as well. Also incorporating exercises that are relaxing and therapeutic to the body. My goal for spiritual well being is to start going back to my roots and allowing something that is bigger then life give my hope back and assist in the future. Finally my goal for psychological well being is to challenge myself on a daily basis, to learn and love as many things I can find until there is no longer anything left. An exercise for physical well being for me to work on would be yoga. Spiritual well being would be through prayer, meditation and love-kindness preparations and psychological well being exercises would be visual imagery and skillful actions.

            The Crime of the Century helped me to relax and keep still, however it was very frustrating to me that my images would fade quickly. I could imagine the color of the rainbow and spot that is was describing, but only for a minute and then it was gone. It was beneficial to me because my mind was very scattered before the exercise and after it relaxed, open and ready for a new experience.

Steph

Journey Of relaxation exercise

                   Hello everyone, welcome to my blog page I am very happy that we will be getting to know each other better during this term. When reflecting back to the Journey On relaxation exercise I feel that it really took my stress and tense feelings out of my body and in return left awareness and life back into my limbs. This technique I believe would be wonderful with individuals that suffer from anger issues and struggle to find solutions in calming the mind and body down. It not only made me feel like I was being able to relax my self in this crazy fast pace world we live in, but it made me feel like the every day stressors I face can be faced. It makes you feel like anything is possible because your mind and body are working together to achieve the same goals, instead of fighting against each other as a result of the mind being out of balance. I feel like in this century for sure we have forgotten how to take a step back and enjoy being human, we are always trying to reach a goal that in the end will never make us physically, mentally and spiritually happy if we do not learn how to train our brain towards positive thinking. The Journey On exercise was very influential to me, because there is no other technique that will relax you to the state of weightlessness and at the same time keep you feeling energetic and  free, feeling like you can achieve anything. Mae West once said "you only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough" meaning that when we have lived a relaxing and conscious mental and bodied life then wholesomeness will be all you feel in the end.

Steph