“To learn improving my balance in everyday life”

Unit8:

Review the exercises and practice sessions you have completed in this course. (Loving Kindness, Subtle mind, Visualization, meditation etc.) Choose two practices that you have determined to be most beneficial. How can you implement these practices in your personal life to foster “mental fitness”? Provide specific examples.

For me, I think the universal loving kindness exercise was one such exercise that I had been able to focus on feelings because when the mind is relaxed the mediator is able to forgive and forget any offense committed against my anger. It was also very easy to remember, and also because we had to keep repeating the four phrases regarding Dacher textbook. One of the most that I need to practice a lot is the meditation in deep breathing. I need to time my balance to concentration and focus and it really helps my body and mind calm down.

I think the beneficial practices for me are physical exercise and prayer. My experience on physical exercise is improving my moods and I feel better about my appearance and when I exercise regularly, which can boost my confidence and improve my self-esteem. I also have more energy to go about my daily chores. For my prayer it helps me to reduce my ego, like my fear and anxiety, and prayer that give me strengths and powerful. When I pray for those I know and love, it helps me to understand that person a little bit better.

"Finding Nemo"

Blog: Unit 7

Complete the "Meeting Asciepius" exercise on track #4 of the Dacher CD. Describe your meditative practice(s) for the week and discuss the experience. Explain how mindfulness or meditation has fostered an increase in your psychological or spiritual wellness. How can you continue to apply these practices in your life to foster greater health and wellness?

As listening the Meeting Asciepius exercise. I wanted to learn more about the healer. For me mindfulness or meditation is really very hard for me to practice, because it is very difficult to learn. For the last week, I try to meditation practice involving the spiritual together at once. This things is so hard to focus when there are so much going on around me with the anger, my health, financial, schools and working two jobs, and other issues in my life that I just can't get myself into a place, I hope that is gives me complete control. I’d just thinking positive and saying god give me strength and I keep repeating that I can take care of myself without any help. The best is to look up to myself first before anything else. When I am closing my eyes, I keep telling my mind to follow my dream as many times I said, in someday I will receive my achievement, so that I have a better jobs and a good place to stay and I can give something for my kids, I can support, loving, and give what they needs. Even though, this is so hard to practice. I won’t give up learning to practice, just needs to focus on so that take out my stressful.

Describe the saying: "One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself” (P.477) How does this apply to the health and wellness professional? Do you have an obligation to your clients to be developing your health psychologically, physically, and spiritually? Why or why not? How can you implement psychological and spiritual growth in your personal life?

I think that as a practitioner clients need to feel and see this in you in order to trust your advice and what you are telling them to do. I believe we do have an obligation to our clients in developing our own psychological, physical and spiritual health because this will give the clients confidence in your guidance and trust that you are leading them in the right direction. Therefore, by implementing the meditation practices, yoga, positive thinking, exercise and Reiki that I can grows and it needed to develop my personal psychological and spiritual health.

Freedom of Destiny

My Loving-Kindness exercise, once I close my eyes and able to be comfortable. Then I stretch my body and take a practice deep breathing 5 xs.  Then I rest and calm my body for ten minutes and relax. When I am thinking about my day and weekends that what did I do. About depression, anger, tired, family issue, etch. I ask myself, dear god, I think this thing what’s happening to my life is my destiny and challenges. It’s like blood is thicker than water. Then I visualize myself than I am running saying god give some strength that I can do this (3x refrain), that all my challenges in negative feelings I had that I can survive. Once I pretend that I am running, I felt that my energy, my negative thoughts or feelings, that when I am thinking about god, it feels that I need to love myself more. Then when I am catching my breath, once again, I practice 10 minutes pause. I felt that my tense and hypertension got lighter

These exercise assessment in four levels aspect of life. In my experience I’ve always have a hard time dealing with my siblings. I’ve always have frustration and anger when we communicate. They think they’ve always right, because they are older than me. I keep shouting when we back to back conversation. The reason I shouted because I know that my gut feelings that I am right about what I become. I can’t win to them; they think that I am a loser person. To calm and release my negative emotions, I stop and go outside for a fresh air. So that all frustration coming from my chest, my mind that I release. Then I talk to god for my prayer asking him for make me stronger and heal my emotion. Once I prayed and repeat as many times I want. My depression, anger, and emotion have release. I felt my body is not shivering anymore. Once I go to bed, I can be ease a stillness of my mind, body and releasing my mental activity between psychospiritual, interpersonal and worldly.

I discover about myself that I am a passive and easily person as of my attitude. I guess to be aggressive and believe on myself no matter challenge I get every day. Why, because I don’t want anyone take advantage on me that I am a nice person. I think one example is to practice a toastmaster is a good communication activity. A lot of any exercise activity that I need to do it most of the time, like running, meditation, praying, eating the right food that can help me to implement the greater wellness.

"Mental Fitness Exercise"

Blog: Unit 5

Compare and contrast the Loving Kindness exercise and the Subtle mind exercise. Explain your experience including the benefits, frustrations etc.

The loving kindness exercise  is to generate more feeling of love and kindness outward towards an ever -widening circle of living things seems like a worthy endeavor regardless of one’s spiritual beliefs. Additionally, unconditional love towards and ever widening circle of sentient beings starting with yourself, then someone you care a great deal about, the subtle mind exercise, as a method of stress management providing as much-needed deep rest and relaxation. On this my exercise experience of making the mind subtle is largely unique to meditation and more broadly, to meditation related spiritual practices. My beneficial experience I found that I was able to easily relax and settle my mind without using others to focus- just using breathing to induce a relaxed state that responded to my mental movements. This may have been more beneficial because balancing my time management, day to day same routine for balancing jobs, school, and spend time with my kids.

Discuss the connection of the spiritual wellness to mental and physical wellness. Explain how the connection is manifested in your personal life.

My connections to spiritual wellness to mental and physical wellness, regarding to spiritual wellness can help to improve my well-being are a part of my healthy life. My mental body feel happy, stronger and in control of your physical body when illness threatens.  This spiritual health is something that I have to find within my own mind and soul. When I feel good about myself mentally it improves my outlook on everything around me. On physical wellness will developed through the combination my beneficial on physical activity/exercise and healthy eating habits, and personal responsibility for my own health. To improve my physical wellness Exercise helps you to sleep better, manage stress, and prevents disease can gain from increasing your heart rate.