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.
Hi Heather, my life is very hectic right now as well. I reside with my mother and my sister and her family. I do not have much personal space or quiet time so I ended up doing this right before bedtime. As I was reading your entry a thought crossed my mind to try it w/head phones on. Maybe then I will be able to concentrate on it more.
ReplyDeleteWhen I ten to relax I end up making myself feel guilty like I should be doing something with my time. A couple years a go B.C. (before college) I started to learn how to knit. I figured this would be something I could do and still relax at the same time. Now it is something that does make me focus and relaxes me and I am still busy all in one. I just need to find time to keep it up.