Hello Bloggers,
After participating in several different exercises and practice sessions, the two that
I think that is most beneficial is the "Journey On" relaxation exercise and the "Crime of the Century" relaxation exercise. When it comes to the Journey on exercise, I found it fascinating to have our mind control our body through visualization. This exercise shows us how true it is that our mind,body, and spirit are pretty much connected. This experience reminds me of hypnosis; where you have the hypnotist trying to get you in a trance. If I were to practice this skill and apply it to my profession where I can make my clients feel relaxed and have them be able to control their physical reactions such as body temperature, that would be such a great achievement in my personal life and in my professional life. As I have mentioned before, I have to practice this exercise repeatedly in order for me to apply it to my personal and professional life with ease. In terms of the "Crime of the Century" exercise, again this shows us the power of the mind. I have read about the chakras and what each colors represent and also found this amazing. When we think about different foods and their colors we wonder why is a certain fruit beneficial to a certain part of the body...well it is all related to the chakra. For example, cranberry is red and is beneficial for the urinary tract which is associated with the root chakra. If you look up the location of the root chakra you would see that it is located near our reproductive system. The same idea applies to the other fruits, their colors, and its association with the chakra. Moreover, envisioning the different colors of the chakra coming out of the different regions of my body was a little hard to do but
I eventually got it. Being able to free your mind of distractions is what can make this practice session a little frustrating, but you will get it once you get your mind to focus on this technique.
-Welna
Monday, April 23, 2012
Monday, April 16, 2012
Unit 7 Meeting Aesclepius
Hi bloggers, this week's meditative practice was quite interesting I must say, When prompted to envision a wise person, I automatically thought of my older sister. She is very understanding and she listens to my feelings and makes me feel better with the decisions I have made of have trouble making. She doesn't judge me which makes talking to her even better and more comforting. When asked to envision that person with a white beam of light around their head, I did with ease. My older sister has never done anything that I consider immoral, she kept her life simple for the most part; never into some drama. I wish I can say the same for myself. I hope I can be like her and better when I grow older. My sister and I are two different people, so when asked to be one with her, it brought me to some kind of tranquility because I was infused with the person who I considered to be wise and who I want to be like her. I felt like I have a chance to grow into a wiser person.
Moreover with the reading, the phrase " One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself", this to me means that you cant bring someone towards anything in life if you haven't been there yourself. For example, how can one bring another towards happiness when he is not happy himself. That's is like putting up a front and not being honest to yourself or to the other person. The way this applies to the health and wellness professionals is when a nutritionist or personal trainer advise you to follow a dieting plan or work out routine and that professional has never eaten right or exercise like he should. How can that individual motivate the patient when he or she has never really worked out with himself. They are not leading by example is what that seems to me. As to answer if I am obligated to develop my inner being for my clients, of course I am. Developing my health spiritually, psychologically, and physically is important for me, my career, and my clients. This is the opposite of the phrase, "one cannot lead where one has not gone himself."
- Welna
Moreover with the reading, the phrase " One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself", this to me means that you cant bring someone towards anything in life if you haven't been there yourself. For example, how can one bring another towards happiness when he is not happy himself. That's is like putting up a front and not being honest to yourself or to the other person. The way this applies to the health and wellness professionals is when a nutritionist or personal trainer advise you to follow a dieting plan or work out routine and that professional has never eaten right or exercise like he should. How can that individual motivate the patient when he or she has never really worked out with himself. They are not leading by example is what that seems to me. As to answer if I am obligated to develop my inner being for my clients, of course I am. Developing my health spiritually, psychologically, and physically is important for me, my career, and my clients. This is the opposite of the phrase, "one cannot lead where one has not gone himself."
- Welna
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Unit 6 Universal Loving- Kindness
Hey bloggers!
When I did the Loving- kindness activity, many thoughts came to mind and had some thoughts about myself and people who I am surrounded by. The activity on page 93 is very similar to my daily prayer. I often pray for not just for things that I want personally for myself, but I pray for the people in my life and the world so that it may be free of suffering, free of sadness, burdens, pain, and sickness. When I normally do this, I feel better about myself, because it is always good to me to pray for others and not only for yourself. When you show God that you are humble, and not self-centered he helps you with your own troubles at the right time. I love the fact that I am involved in the health and wellness program where my courses teaches me new ideas on how to take care of not only my health but the health of others in a holistic, integral approach.
Moreover, when I think about what aspect of my life that needs development, I would have to say psycho-spiritual. Although I am a people-person, and usually go out my way to make others happy or satisfied, I have a hard time focusing on myself, which often leads me to feel stressed out because by the time the day is over, I realized that I didn't do anything for myself, and often that is not in my favor. So in order to be satisfied or at least happier in my life, I feel like I need a break from others sometimes in order to focus on me and get things done. Besides meditation, I can also take my time to take notes in a journal and jot down what did I do for others and what did I do for myself in the day, if it's imbalanced, I will make note of it and write down the feeling/emotions that came along with my daily experiences. This will help me regroup and set my priorities straight. and eventually, be stress free.
- Welna Guerrier
When I did the Loving- kindness activity, many thoughts came to mind and had some thoughts about myself and people who I am surrounded by. The activity on page 93 is very similar to my daily prayer. I often pray for not just for things that I want personally for myself, but I pray for the people in my life and the world so that it may be free of suffering, free of sadness, burdens, pain, and sickness. When I normally do this, I feel better about myself, because it is always good to me to pray for others and not only for yourself. When you show God that you are humble, and not self-centered he helps you with your own troubles at the right time. I love the fact that I am involved in the health and wellness program where my courses teaches me new ideas on how to take care of not only my health but the health of others in a holistic, integral approach.
Moreover, when I think about what aspect of my life that needs development, I would have to say psycho-spiritual. Although I am a people-person, and usually go out my way to make others happy or satisfied, I have a hard time focusing on myself, which often leads me to feel stressed out because by the time the day is over, I realized that I didn't do anything for myself, and often that is not in my favor. So in order to be satisfied or at least happier in my life, I feel like I need a break from others sometimes in order to focus on me and get things done. Besides meditation, I can also take my time to take notes in a journal and jot down what did I do for others and what did I do for myself in the day, if it's imbalanced, I will make note of it and write down the feeling/emotions that came along with my daily experiences. This will help me regroup and set my priorities straight. and eventually, be stress free.
- Welna Guerrier
Monday, April 2, 2012
Unit 5 Blog Subtle Mind
Hey Bloggers!
This week we were to practice our subtle mind exercise. I'm going to have to be honest here, the first time I did it... I fell asleep! (lol) I had done it after work and on a full stomach... so one, I was tired and two, the blood left my brain and used all the energy I had left and worked in my digestive system to do its job. I became aware of my first experience and told myself to try again, but this time to practie the subtle mind exercise when I am not tired and not too soon after I eat. The second time was better. I was alert and followed the instructions. During this trial, I had a couple of mental disturbances that came along during my breathing activity. I realized that these thoughts had to do with the fact that I had turned off my phone and was wondering if my boyfriend was trying to get in contact with me. The second disturbance that caused my mind to wander was thinking about my new friend who is going through some bad times in her life. So basically during the subtle mind practice, I was concerned for others. After trying this exercise over and over again, I began to find ways to keep away the thoughts that were trying to creep in before and used those same reasons as examples to keep away new thoughts from creeping in for the next trials.
Overall, this breathing exercise was more difficult than the loving-kindness practice. I say this because in the loving-kindness, we were allowed to participate with others and didn't have to worry if my mind wandered because I was forced to replace my thoughts with love, so I was more focused on doing that. As oppose to the subtle mind practice, I had to focus on my breathing which was a little bit hard since breathing is an involuntary action, and when we are forced to focus on our breathing for a reason such as this exercise, it gets a little frustrating. It's like it is forcing our mind to do work.
The connection of spiritual wellness to mental and physical is greatly needed. You must have a clear, conscious, and sane mind in order to achieve the other aspects of well being in a healthy way. When all of these aspects are in sync, our well-being has a nice flow to it. I believe the better our spirituality is, the better our body and mind will respond to whatever we are trying achieve.
- Welna
This week we were to practice our subtle mind exercise. I'm going to have to be honest here, the first time I did it... I fell asleep! (lol) I had done it after work and on a full stomach... so one, I was tired and two, the blood left my brain and used all the energy I had left and worked in my digestive system to do its job. I became aware of my first experience and told myself to try again, but this time to practie the subtle mind exercise when I am not tired and not too soon after I eat. The second time was better. I was alert and followed the instructions. During this trial, I had a couple of mental disturbances that came along during my breathing activity. I realized that these thoughts had to do with the fact that I had turned off my phone and was wondering if my boyfriend was trying to get in contact with me. The second disturbance that caused my mind to wander was thinking about my new friend who is going through some bad times in her life. So basically during the subtle mind practice, I was concerned for others. After trying this exercise over and over again, I began to find ways to keep away the thoughts that were trying to creep in before and used those same reasons as examples to keep away new thoughts from creeping in for the next trials.
Overall, this breathing exercise was more difficult than the loving-kindness practice. I say this because in the loving-kindness, we were allowed to participate with others and didn't have to worry if my mind wandered because I was forced to replace my thoughts with love, so I was more focused on doing that. As oppose to the subtle mind practice, I had to focus on my breathing which was a little bit hard since breathing is an involuntary action, and when we are forced to focus on our breathing for a reason such as this exercise, it gets a little frustrating. It's like it is forcing our mind to do work.
The connection of spiritual wellness to mental and physical is greatly needed. You must have a clear, conscious, and sane mind in order to achieve the other aspects of well being in a healthy way. When all of these aspects are in sync, our well-being has a nice flow to it. I believe the better our spirituality is, the better our body and mind will respond to whatever we are trying achieve.
- Welna
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