Unit 6 Creating Wellness

Hi everyone!  The exercise process was to repeat certain phrases over and over.  This was to help me to be able to believe that I may be able to help myself and others find health, happiness and wholeness.  The assessment process allows us to look deep within ourselves to see what is causing us difficulties and suffering.  This look enables us to care for those issues and free ourselves from them.  I've found that I often times take on more than I can handle.  I have decided that I will focus on only those things that are the most important at that time.  Limiting the things on my plate and focusing on fewer things would release my stress.  For me, breathing and learning to say "no" would greatly help me in increasing my health.  I also use my piano to release and refocus.  If it wasn't for my piano, I would be a stressed out mess.

Unit 5 Creating Wellness

The subtle mind activity was wonderful.  Concentrating on my breath allowed me to release my stress from the day and gave me the opportunity to relax.  When comparing this activity to the loving kindness activity, I found it to be much easier to relax with the subtle mind.  I was able to release and quiet the mental activity through the focusing on my breath.  When you can bring calmness to the mind, it can bring physical wellness to your being.  Spiritual wellness is the basis of both the mind and body.  If the spirit is not healthy, which people use as their strength in troublesome times, then their mind and body become weakened which then in turn weakens the spirit further.  The spirit, body and mind are all interconnected and when one becomes weak it affects the other.

Unit 4 Blog Creating Wellness

Wow!  My experience with the loving kindness was not beneficial at all.  I found myself unable to relax and to focus.  My spirit was putting up red flags and I had to quit.  As a Christian, I could not implement this practice into my life and I most certainly would not be able to recommend this to others.  My beliefs and the bible strictly forbid it.  Because you are being asked to allow pain and other feelings to enter from other people, you are opening your mind up to allow evil to enter.  I cannot do this practice nor ask others to do it. 

The concept of "mental workout" is to train the mind to think positively and to let go of the non-positive.  The proven benefits of a mental workout is a more psychologically sound mind.  I can implement mental workout by encouraging myself and treating others tenderly and lovingly the way I would like to be treated.

Unit 3 Creating Wellness

Looking into my own life, I would rate my physical well-being at a 7, my spiritual well-being at an 8, and my psychological well-being at a 7.  My physical well-being is affected by MS which is in its own affected by stress.  My spiritual well-being in my mind, could always be better.  I could always draw closer to God, because there is always more room to pray, study His word, and worship.  My faith is very strong, but like anyone else, it can be shaken and during this time it is even more necessary for me to focus on God and draw from His stregnth.  My psychological well-being is affected by stress, the lack of spiritual focus, self-inflicted and other inflicted mental harms.  Things from our past can haunt us and cause us to not be able to be psychologically sound.  It is not until we face our underlying problems that we will be freed from our psychological bondages and enable us to reach human flourishing.

I am placing personal goals on my self in each of the individual areas of my live.  Physically I am lacking in a daily physical activity and threfore I am going to try to place a daily routine of 10 minutes of yoga every evening to not only stretch and stregnthen my muscles, but also help me release my stress and help me to relax.  Spiritually, I feel I should try to increase my prayer time and my scripture reading.  I spend lots of time in worship since I am a part of our praise team at church and I am now one of the co-directors of the children's praise team.  I am always sitting at the piano, singing and writing songs.  Psychologically, I need to learn to focus more on the positives in my life.  If I work to speak with love, calmly and quietly, instead of jumping off the handle and saying things that I will later regret, I would find myself having a much better psychological constitution.

I know a couple activities that I could include in my daily life that could aid me in reaching my goals.  I can place an exercise routine into my daily schedule, a yoga practice and even a quiet time in which I can focus on strictly my breath to aid me in releasing my stress and gaining physical stregnth.  I could increase my time in prayer and studying the bible to give me the stregnth to face my everyday life, stresses and psychological battles.

I tried the Crime of the Century exercise.  I found myself focusing more on my breath for the certain areas and breathing out my stress.  I could not picture the colors.  I can say that the breathing part of the exercise was very beneficial in relaxing me, for I did not hear the exercise come to an end.  I believe I fell asleep and it was the sound of my children that brought me back to the here and now.