1. Compare and contrast the Loving Kindness exercise and the Subtle mind exercise. Explain your experience including the benefits, frustrations etc.
The loving kindness exercise I felt, that I was more able to focus and accomplish the tasks that were given. I felt more relaxed and eager to go along with the loving kindness exercise. As for the subtle mind exercise, I have not been so frustrated trying to complete a relaxation task in my life. I suffer from having a very active mind, that the only way I can focus on relaxing is if I have a task to relax to. Just sitting there trying not to think, felt like punishment, the quieter it got the angrier I got. The subtle mind exercise stressed me to the point of nausea and anxiety. I have tried for several years to quiet my mind and have found that I do better with a non-stressful activity or thought to focus on works a lot better than, no thoughts at all. Every time I attempt to convert how I relax, I feel stressed and almost as if I am betraying the truth about whom I am. My acupuncturist told me that my element is water, water is always flowing. If water stops moving it is no longer productive. I need to be moving to feel balanced.
2. Discuss the connection of the spiritual wellness to mental and physical wellness. Explain how the connection is manifested in your personal life.
The spiritual, mental and physical wellness, as described in “Dacher Integral Health”, is through the psycho spiritual connection. Connecting the biological with elevated levels of consciousness, assist in true balance of the body as a whole.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
Unit 4
1. Describe your experience. (Did you find it beneficial? Difficult?) Why or Why not? Would you recommend this to others? Why or Why not?
I enjoyed the part of the exercise, where I focused on others and loving kindness towards them. I love caring for others, that is where I find my happiness through work and with friends and family, being selfless makes me feel whole. The part that I felt a little disturbing is where I had to focus on myself and loving kindness towards myself. I tend to lack trust in others, my emotions and the future, so I have doubts about where I am and where I should be emotionally. I feel that I know that I will truly care for others but don’t rely on other to do the same. I felt myself tuning out the speaker when she was focusing on self verses others.
2. What is the concept of “Mental Workout? What does the research indicate are the proven benefits of a Mental Work Out? How can you implement mental workouts to foster your psychological health?
I believe that trough mental workout, one can learn to become less focused on self and learn to care for others, which in turn will show others kindness and will intrigue them to return the same loving kindness. Also by training your mind, we can also learn how to truly love ourselves ( which is a topic I need much work on), from the reading and listening exercise, by learning to love ourselves will allow us all the better to love one and other.
I enjoyed the part of the exercise, where I focused on others and loving kindness towards them. I love caring for others, that is where I find my happiness through work and with friends and family, being selfless makes me feel whole. The part that I felt a little disturbing is where I had to focus on myself and loving kindness towards myself. I tend to lack trust in others, my emotions and the future, so I have doubts about where I am and where I should be emotionally. I feel that I know that I will truly care for others but don’t rely on other to do the same. I felt myself tuning out the speaker when she was focusing on self verses others.
2. What is the concept of “Mental Workout? What does the research indicate are the proven benefits of a Mental Work Out? How can you implement mental workouts to foster your psychological health?
I believe that trough mental workout, one can learn to become less focused on self and learn to care for others, which in turn will show others kindness and will intrigue them to return the same loving kindness. Also by training your mind, we can also learn how to truly love ourselves ( which is a topic I need much work on), from the reading and listening exercise, by learning to love ourselves will allow us all the better to love one and other.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Unit 3
1. Based on your reflections, and on a scale of 1 to 10 (ten being optimal wellbeing), where do you rate your A-physical wellbeing, B-spiritual well-being, C-psychological well-being? Why?
As for reflecting on my current well-being states, I would have to give myself an 8 for my physical, an 7 for my spiritual and an 6 for my psychological well-being currently.
I gave myself a 8 for physical, because being a personal trainer I believe in taking good care of your body through healthy food selections and daily physical activity. I currently am at an athletic body fat percentage, with a great deal of energy. I only gave myself an 8 because I was diagnosed with lupus when I was 16 years old that affects my joints and sun sensitivity; I also have very bad allergies towards processed foods, pesticides, insecticides, tree nuts, animal dander and other allergens.
I currently feel that I am around a 7 in my spiritual well-being. I am a firm believer in my faith as a Christian and my love and obedience for God. The reasoning for a 7 instead of a 10 is due to my mother’s passing the beginning of the year. After her passing and the way it came to pass, slightly shifted my understanding and faith.
As for psychological I currently feel I am around a 6. This current state I believe is contributed to my mother’s passing, current work schedules and other stressors in my life for the time being.
2. Develop a goal for yourself in each area (physical, spiritual, psychological).
My current goals for my physical well-being would be to; improve my endurance and strength, possible strives for getting back into competition condition.
For my spiritual well-being goals; I need to start fellowshipping with other believer again and replace my faith.
Then for my physiological well-being; start retraining my mind to not stress the things that I cannot control.
3. What activities or exercise can you implement in your life to assist in moving toward each goal?
In order to achieve my physical goal; I would need to construct a workout schedule, with days and times designated for strength and endurance training and workouts with exercises for each of those days. Also constructing a dietary plan, that will assist in balancing out my nutrient intake, to compensate for my goals.
To achieve my spiritual goals; I would include in my Sunday schedule time for church and fellowship, also scheduling another time throughout the week for reading and other activities to help to strengthen my faith, through bible studies.
For my physiological well-being goal; daily taking time out of each day to apply relaxation techniques, to allow myself to learn to not stress and take time to reflect and calm down.
4. Complete the relaxation exercise The Crime of the Century. To hear this exercise, click here. Describe your experience. (What it beneficial? Frustrating? etc.)
This relaxation exercise was not as stressful as last weeks. I have been trying to apply some of my goals and the integral healing to my daily life. Taking time out for me is not an easy task; I tend to focus my time and efforts on others. I have been trying to apply, taking care of my own well being as well.
The positive words related towards the different parts of your body, helps you to visualize the positive about yourself.
As for reflecting on my current well-being states, I would have to give myself an 8 for my physical, an 7 for my spiritual and an 6 for my psychological well-being currently.
I gave myself a 8 for physical, because being a personal trainer I believe in taking good care of your body through healthy food selections and daily physical activity. I currently am at an athletic body fat percentage, with a great deal of energy. I only gave myself an 8 because I was diagnosed with lupus when I was 16 years old that affects my joints and sun sensitivity; I also have very bad allergies towards processed foods, pesticides, insecticides, tree nuts, animal dander and other allergens.
I currently feel that I am around a 7 in my spiritual well-being. I am a firm believer in my faith as a Christian and my love and obedience for God. The reasoning for a 7 instead of a 10 is due to my mother’s passing the beginning of the year. After her passing and the way it came to pass, slightly shifted my understanding and faith.
As for psychological I currently feel I am around a 6. This current state I believe is contributed to my mother’s passing, current work schedules and other stressors in my life for the time being.
2. Develop a goal for yourself in each area (physical, spiritual, psychological).
My current goals for my physical well-being would be to; improve my endurance and strength, possible strives for getting back into competition condition.
For my spiritual well-being goals; I need to start fellowshipping with other believer again and replace my faith.
Then for my physiological well-being; start retraining my mind to not stress the things that I cannot control.
3. What activities or exercise can you implement in your life to assist in moving toward each goal?
In order to achieve my physical goal; I would need to construct a workout schedule, with days and times designated for strength and endurance training and workouts with exercises for each of those days. Also constructing a dietary plan, that will assist in balancing out my nutrient intake, to compensate for my goals.
To achieve my spiritual goals; I would include in my Sunday schedule time for church and fellowship, also scheduling another time throughout the week for reading and other activities to help to strengthen my faith, through bible studies.
For my physiological well-being goal; daily taking time out of each day to apply relaxation techniques, to allow myself to learn to not stress and take time to reflect and calm down.
4. Complete the relaxation exercise The Crime of the Century. To hear this exercise, click here. Describe your experience. (What it beneficial? Frustrating? etc.)
This relaxation exercise was not as stressful as last weeks. I have been trying to apply some of my goals and the integral healing to my daily life. Taking time out for me is not an easy task; I tend to focus my time and efforts on others. I have been trying to apply, taking care of my own well being as well.
The positive words related towards the different parts of your body, helps you to visualize the positive about yourself.
Monday, August 9, 2010
Unit 2
Welcome to my blog page for "Creating Wellness Psychology and Spiritual Aspects of Healing". The following blog will be about an exercise for unit 2, that we had to participate in which was titled “Journey on relaxation.
From listening to the exercise, in theory I can tell that it would assist in relaxation. Currently my life state does not allow me free time for myself and I found that the exercise actually caused me more stress than it was meant to relieve. I believe this was based on the fact that deep down I was concentration on the other many things I had to get done and a little resentment towards the exercise, because it was taking up time from me accomplishing those tasks. I have never been very good at relaxing; I tend to find sitting around and doing nothing as more of a stressor that actively having things to do. I tend to let my mind fill up with negative thoughts when I am "meditating", so I feel more comfortable keeping my mind busy, so as not to have time for negative thinking. I feel that for me to honestly "relax" the way the exercise describes, I would have to schedule a free time in my schedule to "relax" and find a way to train myself to learn how to relax, instead of having an over-active mind.
From listening to the exercise, in theory I can tell that it would assist in relaxation. Currently my life state does not allow me free time for myself and I found that the exercise actually caused me more stress than it was meant to relieve. I believe this was based on the fact that deep down I was concentration on the other many things I had to get done and a little resentment towards the exercise, because it was taking up time from me accomplishing those tasks. I have never been very good at relaxing; I tend to find sitting around and doing nothing as more of a stressor that actively having things to do. I tend to let my mind fill up with negative thoughts when I am "meditating", so I feel more comfortable keeping my mind busy, so as not to have time for negative thinking. I feel that for me to honestly "relax" the way the exercise describes, I would have to schedule a free time in my schedule to "relax" and find a way to train myself to learn how to relax, instead of having an over-active mind.
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