Unit 6-Mind-Body-Spirit Wellness and Healing

The aspects of my life that is most significant source of distress to me is money and school. It always seems that however much I get ahead something happens to put me in a jam. School can become slight stressors as well when trying to balance work and other daily activities while needing to study or work on a project. The greatest possibility for growth and development that I am working on is to manage my time better and prepare myself financially with earning a degree in route to a good profession.

    

The line of development that is most essential for me at this time I believe is mind. My body and spirit I think are very high. I take good care of my body in regards to eating a healthy diet and being physically active. The source of difficulty for me is mind; I have not channeled my inner peace as far as meditating and controlling my mind to be clear and focus on particular things at once. This is the same area of my life that needs growth and development.

Subtle Mind unit 5

I think the Loving-kindness exercises were beneficial; it was geared towards calming the mind and preforming exercises to help you relax. Though this subtle mind exercise also calms and relaxes you it is geared through the mind, it is based on breathing strategies and learning to control it. Dacher says, “ Peaceful breathing patterns leads to peaceful mind”. Unlike some of the other practices where you not able to practice them anywhere, the subtle mind can be practice frequently and where every you are. I liked this subtle mind more relaxing and real, not picturing imaginary things. Spiritual wellness, mental and physical wellness all is in the same line of work leading to integral health. They all posses their own unique triggers to you body, one is just as important as the other. Each different wellness type is manifested in my personal life through my daily routines, more that any would be my physical wellness due me dedicated to it on a daily schedule. The other two we am learning more about as class goes on and plan to incorporate these types of exercises in my daily schedule.

Loving-Kindness

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Mental workout Is a “diminished focus on ourselves and our needs” (Dacher, 2006), you have to tame and train your mind through exercise on a daily bases, just as you a professional would practice for their job field. There are 2 general steps to a mental workout that help us get fully engaged.  Step one is “Loving kindness” which starts us on the path to integral health.  You start by mentally engaging and transition to a mindset of loving-kindness, this allows our mind to clear up and keep calm, and when we give love and kindness we will in turn receive that back through “natural and effortless aspects of higher consciousness” (Dacher,2006). Step 2

I did find this weeks exercise beneficial, I think this exercise mediation this week was more effective to me than any of the other ones it really got me to focus and relax. I think the loving kindness concept with peace I connected with more. I think the ocean music was soothing and gentle; I also liked the silent pauses in between instructions. I am getting into the mindset of being able to grasp more. I would recommend it to someone and have to my wife.

Unit3- my Well-being

Physical Wellbeing- Grading different categories I think my physical wellbeing is around an 8. On average I work out about 4-5 times a week so I think my physical wellbeing is above average but I could and need to definitely kick it up a notch to really push myself.

Spiritual Wellbeing- I think my spiritual wellbeing is high so I give it 8, I try to stay positive and optimistic through all situations and wake up looking forward to what the day has to offer.

Psychological Wellbeing- In this category I give myself a 6. I could use more focus on my psychological wellbeing, I do not take specific time to enhance my mind, like meditation and so forth but do understand I should but need to improve in that area. 

On a scale of 1-10 I consider my optimal wellbeing overall I give it a 7. I think the my main focus in these areas for improvement, is to change a few small things, I think if I were to eat healthier I could really improve my bodies physique and development, I do not like to eat a lot of healthy food like vegetable and salads etc. even when I know its best. My goal is to eat more vegetables. From a psychological standpoint I need to take time out of my day to relax and soothe my mind, I think by doing this it will help with the flow of my day, taking a break out of my busy on the go schedule will allow me to refocus. So my goal is to take 10-15 minutes a day to engage in some types of meditation. Spiritually I feel I’m on track, I believe I have a positive outlook on every aspect of life, and as long as I maintain that I will remain healthy and wellbeing will flourish.

Listening to this week’s relaxation activity “The Crime of the Century” I thought it provided a nice relaxation and calmness, but once again I was not really able to get the full experience that some might. I enjoyed the positive reinforcement statements i.e. the saying “my life has meaningful purpose” “I feel balance” I think those were great, but I couldn’t really vibe with the references to colors and rainbows. Overall though it got me into a state of calm but did make me somewhat restless. Did anybody else experience anything like me?

AO

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The Autogenic training technique is performed to making any part of your body feel comfortable. While listening trying this for the first time I thought it was very relaxing, the music was calming and soothing. I’m not sure if this was just I or if it was due to it being my first time, but I did not feel the change of direction of blood flow to the areas described. I think this is a method that might take time and practice to actually get accustom to the benefits it offers. I’m not usually prone to take part in these types of mental exercises but I definitely and open and hope I can find a way to connect better in the future.  

AO