Assessment Plan/Loving Kindness Exercise!

While repeating the Loving Kindness exercise I found that I have already thought of this within my heart however, repeating it let me know that I am a good person for doing so.

The area of growth and development I need to work on is the mental fitness. I lack the ability to control the running thoughts within my mind and I would like to grab a hold of it so I am not running negative thoughts within it when I should be thinking positive or nothing at all.

Some exercises I can do to help foster greater wellness is by doing the mental fitness exercise as well as the centering prayer by thinking of one word over and over again to help me control on thinking just one thought rather than 10 at a time.

Subtle Mind Exercise!

The exercise this week was different than any exercise yet! I loved how there was just little talk and mostly having us concentrate on our own breathing to help relax the mind from running 100mph. I absolutely loved this exercise and it is my favorite out of all the ones we have had to do. This exercise was extremely beneficial and I plan on using the subtle mind exercise more often because it actually works.

When it comes to comparing and contrast between the Loving Kindness and Subtle mind exercise I found that both were quite different such as how the loving kindness wanted us to concentrate on compassion where as Subtle mind wanted us to concentrate on one thing the entire exercise.

I did not have any frustrations with Subtle mind exercise at all it was wonderful and I enjoyed it completely.

The connection between the spiritual wellness, mental and physical wellness is learning to control each within ourselves. Having all three balanced is what will benefit us the most when going through a condition that is incurable or even a stressful event. I believe the connection is manifested in my personal life by doing an exercise of each rotating between the three and when I am having a bit more stressful day I do all three exercises to help boost me to become more balance.

Loving Kindness! Unit 4

I did not like this exercise at all! I feel as though the woman saying this was a robot with no compassion. I feel if you are wanting others to do what you do then you should show them how by doing so yourself. She had no love or compassion within her heart when stating the things to do so I did not find this exercise beneficial at all and it was difficult to do as she said when I was concentrating on her. I would not recommend this exercise to others because I do not recommend things that do not work for me as it leaves room it may not work for them.

The concept of mental workout is to train the brain and once the brain is trained it becomes easier and easier to go back to the spot you are in when in the mental workout. I can implement mental workouts to foster my psychological health by doing training once a week to start off with and record my thoughts and how I feel before and after I do the workout. Set a date and time each week on my cell-phone to keep track and stay on schedule.

Unit 2 Journey of Relaxation!

I want to welcome you to my blog. I appreciate you taking the time to read my thoughts on this journey on relaxation.

I look forward to reading everyone's blog entry!

While listening to Journey of Relaxation I actually had to listen to it three times to fully comprehend and relax just as it had said.

I felt in the first two times of listening to it that my mind was still going all over the place and not able to concentrate and feel the peace within myself.

Finally by the third time I was able to sit here with a blank mind and allow my blood to flow through my complete body and being able to control where the blood flows  

I loved how the narrator had a gentle relaxing voice which did help a lot when relaxing.

All and all I loved how relaxing it made me feel even though it took three times to listen and become completely relaxed however, I feel more energized because of it and I decided to do this right after hosting my sons 6th birthday party so relaxing was much needed.

Unit 3 Physical, Spiritual, and Psychological well-being!

Rating Reflection-

When it comes to on a scale of 1 to 10 on my own reflection I would rate

1. Physical wellbeing as a 5
2. Spiritual well-being as a 9
3. Psychological well-being as an 8

I feel as though my strong point is in spiritual and I did not rate it as a 10 because I feel as a human there is always room for improvement. My least and one I need to work a bit more on is my physical well-being and exercise a bit more. I am not over weight and in fact I’m quite skinny however, I lack the exercise that is needed on a daily basis and I believe it is because I am not organized with my schedule to add in exercises like I should. Psychological needs more work because I am for everyone else before myself and I know that is a good thing to help others but I need to balance for myself as well.

 Goals-

When it comes to goals to set up for physical wellbeing I could jog around my town for a half an hour a day after dinner time as well as adding some sit ups in the morning each day after eating breakfast.

Spiritual goals will be to continue to meditate daily as well as pray but do it a bit more often such as once every other day while listening to my pan flute.  

Psychological wellbeing  goals I need to work on is how to love and honor myself as I am my own worst critique and I do not give myself enough credit as I find if I do I would be taking time away from helping someone else and I feel this is the one thing I need to work on. My goal will be everyday to tell myself something nice to myself and learn to cope with others that also express their kind words to me.

Some activities I could implement in my life to assist in moving towards my goals are to write them down on the calendar as well as giving myself positive reinforcements for doing each goal.

The Crime of the Century-

While completing The Crime of the Century I enjoyed listening and learning where the colors of chakra are located so I found this exercise beneficial. I think it could have been even better if he discussed the foods to eat within each region and color rather than naming things from a house such as windows and doors.