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.
