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.

Transpersonal Psychology

Hello everyone!

Our subject this week is transpersonal psychology.  This is a focus on the entire being and not one specific area.  We are looking at a healing of the whole - mind, body and spirit.  The mind has the ability to heal by training it to look at the good and focusing on it instead of the negative.  It was amazing to learn that we can cause neuropeptides to develop just by thinking about what we want our bodies to do.  This is definitely a technique that we all need to learn to achieve optimal health.

Week 2 of Creating Wellness

Hello everyone!

It is great to have another term to meet more new people.  I look forward to getting to know each of you this term.  I wish you the best in your studies.

A new term in a great class. Unit 1 Creating Wellness

This is the first posting for this new term and I want to welcome everyone to this new term.  You will find your time in the class exciting.  Mark is an wonderful professor and is a very understanding and thorough guy.  I wish you the best in the term and can't wait to communicate with all of you.

News of Exciting Changes

Hello everyone. It has been a long time since I blogged. I want to share with everyone of the new changes about to take place in my life and give you the opportunity to explore this future adventure. Last week I bought my own business. I will have an e-commerce site dealing with the things that we all expect the most. I will be selling many different healthy products, naturals, fitness supplies and much more. I hope that you will take a gander when my site is complete and up and running. I will post more on this in the near future.

The New Year Has Begun

Hello everyone and welcome back to Healthy Lifestyle and Wellness. It's great to be back with all of you. As you all know, a new year means new beginnings. Many of us make ourselves new year resolutions and unfortunately, we mess up within the first few weeks. I would like to offer all my readers and followers the ability to hold up their end of their resolutions by posting on my sight and letting others help keep you on track.

My new year resolution is to try to offer everyone help with their weight loss resolutions. I am now a dietary and fitness counselor and am wanting to use this sight to help my clients and other followers to stay on track so that they may obtain their goals. Please feel free to post any question and helpful responses and bring this page to life. We are able to help each other when we bring our thoughts, comments and questions, so that those who are concerned about asking their questions still can receive their answers. I want to challenge all of you to take this opportunity and use it to its fullest.

Let's have a wonderful new year!!

Best of Health,
Tabitha Howdyshell
(Dietary and Fitness Counselor)
(Counselor of Supplementation and Natural Medicine)