This is one I have to really think about and how to describe what I am feeling after this exercise.
There are a lot of thoughts and emotions to this exercise for many reasons.
First we are to describe the exercise: The exercise was a 10 minute exercise, repeating four phrases -
May all individuals gain freedom fron suffering.
May all individuals find sustaind health, happiness, and wholeness.
May I assist all individuals in gaining freedom from suffering.
May I assst allindividuals in finding health, happiness, and wholeness.
First, I need to say all this homework is a bit much and am finding myself with a mixed of emotions, such as: frustration, tiredness, overwhelmed, and sick of having to sit in front of the computer constantly. It seems never ending, all the things we have to do for this class. ARRGGHHH!
On the positive side, I love this class. There are so many positive things to learn from the exercises alone, I love it! I have learned so much about myself and excited to keep the momentum up. It is challenging, and even though I am frustrated, I am finding myself waking up every morning wanting to do the subtle mind exercise and learn more about myself.
From this exercise alone, I initially found it to be very weird and different from the rest. My initial thought was.....how stupid this is! I started the exercise anyway, and found it to be similar to praying, the only difference, we are not actually thinking about specific people. Praying is time consuming because we have to pray for each individual needing prayer. This was easier, lumping all people into one sentence......May all individuals gain freedom from suffering and May all individuals find sustained health, happiness, and wholeness.
After spending the time with this exercise, I found myself feeling very excited, happy, loving, and enthusiastic for a deed well done. Thinking about other people and taking the time to say a prayer for all individuals that I know and don't know. There are so many people around the world that need prayer whom I don't know. There are so many times I wish I could do more for people that are suffering whom I don't know, and I feel I am doing something by repeating these phrases.
As for the assessment, I know I am finding myself getting very tired of all I have to do with my busy schedue, being a mom, wife, student, and teaching students how to draw blood. It is all very tiring in their own ways and am definitely being stretched too thin. I do not have enough time in one day to do all the things I want and need to do for myself. I would love to spend more time praying, bible studying, with my children and I can't. I find myself very frustrated and tired, getting mentally exhausted and drained. These are the most areas in my life I am finding stressed. I am starting to get little headaches everyday. My greatest possibility for growth and development would be to take the time I need for myself to grow and develop. I need to spend more time in quiet time. NO MORE HOMEWORK! This is the most taxing right now on me. Once work is done in 3 weeks, I will have so much more time to open up for myself, I can't wait. I am very anxious for this time to come. I want to meeee tiiiiimmmmmme. I want some down time, relaxation time, time in my flower beds, time with my kids, and going to garage sales. These are all temporary pleasures that help with my long term pleasures. Always fun to go and find good deals and save money. I can tell I need some time for my spiritual self just because I am starting to find myself getting very irritated easily. I can feel my body crying out for this time. In 3 weeks, can't wait. Meee tiiimmmme here I come. This will help me so much towards my integral health. Need to spend more time meditating, journaling, and stretching my body, getting the frustration ooouuuutttttt!!! This is my persoanl assessment of myself that I know needs modification.
Have a great weekend all, it is so warm here, need to get outside and breath some fresh air. Good bye for now. Yvette
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Friday, April 22, 2011
Unit 5 Project for Blog - Answering required questions
Question 1:
In answering questions for the blog project, I am to compare and contrast the Loving Kindness exercise and the Subtle Mind exercise based on my experience. After listening to the Subtle Mind exercise, I do not like the Loving Kindness exercise so much because there is too much talking and directing where our mind are supposed to go. That is the frustration part of Loving Kindness.
The benefits in Subtle Mind exercise: I love this exercise because it starts you out with using your breath as the focal point. There is not much talking, just sounds of the water moving and yourself. This exercise is based solely on you learning how to control your focal point, first being on your breathing, then controlling where the mind goes, bringing it back to the focal point if it wonders too much on other things (the chatter), focusing on the calming and relaxation of your whole self, ultimately reaching the mind, thoughts, visions, chattering, breathing, heart beat, etc. all being one unit. This is awesome! Although, I did not reach the whole unity yet, but with practice, this will be possible.
This exercise, I feel, allows me to be in control and learning/teaching myself how to focus, breath, relax, work through my own feeling coming in and out of my mind, realizing they are non-important, they do not have to be a part of who I am, and letting go of them, eventually being able to reach the whole body/mind calmness. I like this one much better and will use this one to meditate with.
Question 2:
I am to discuss the connection of the spiritual wellness to mental and physical wellness.
My answer is the same it has been since class started......it is all one unit. If one part of these three joined aspects is detached or off balance, the rest will be affected. If our spiritual self is stressed, ridden with hate and anger, distress, etc......................................, the mental and physical sense will sense the stress and be manifested in temporary illnesses and/or symptoms. It is all one unit, as we have been learning throughout semester.
Next, I am to explain how the connection is manifested in my personal life. Is there a right and wrong answer to this question?
I am going to answer this question as, the connection is manifested in my life by the way that I act and carry myself. It is manifested with what I find very interesting in life, and that is getting down to why our bodies act the way they do, why the health issues arise, and how do we change the effects. When I find my body having certain health issues, I investigate why it is happening, what is really affecting me spiritually, ponder on it, meditate, exercise, thing some more, and get the answer, finally changing how I react to things. I guess this is the best answer I can give. I would love to be able to say something profound here, this is my final answer. I could phone a friend, but would rather settle on my own thoughts as the final answer!!!
Thank you to all for participating in this class with me and on my blogs, sharing your stories and experiences giving a different aspect of looking at things. I feel we all learn from each other and will take all to make a better place for us to live in! Better understanding of the self, body, mind, spirit. I thoroughly enjoy this class, very informative and enlightening. I have realized much about myself and excited to learn more. Yvette
In answering questions for the blog project, I am to compare and contrast the Loving Kindness exercise and the Subtle Mind exercise based on my experience. After listening to the Subtle Mind exercise, I do not like the Loving Kindness exercise so much because there is too much talking and directing where our mind are supposed to go. That is the frustration part of Loving Kindness.
The benefits in Subtle Mind exercise: I love this exercise because it starts you out with using your breath as the focal point. There is not much talking, just sounds of the water moving and yourself. This exercise is based solely on you learning how to control your focal point, first being on your breathing, then controlling where the mind goes, bringing it back to the focal point if it wonders too much on other things (the chatter), focusing on the calming and relaxation of your whole self, ultimately reaching the mind, thoughts, visions, chattering, breathing, heart beat, etc. all being one unit. This is awesome! Although, I did not reach the whole unity yet, but with practice, this will be possible.
This exercise, I feel, allows me to be in control and learning/teaching myself how to focus, breath, relax, work through my own feeling coming in and out of my mind, realizing they are non-important, they do not have to be a part of who I am, and letting go of them, eventually being able to reach the whole body/mind calmness. I like this one much better and will use this one to meditate with.
Question 2:
I am to discuss the connection of the spiritual wellness to mental and physical wellness.
My answer is the same it has been since class started......it is all one unit. If one part of these three joined aspects is detached or off balance, the rest will be affected. If our spiritual self is stressed, ridden with hate and anger, distress, etc......................................, the mental and physical sense will sense the stress and be manifested in temporary illnesses and/or symptoms. It is all one unit, as we have been learning throughout semester.
Next, I am to explain how the connection is manifested in my personal life. Is there a right and wrong answer to this question?
I am going to answer this question as, the connection is manifested in my life by the way that I act and carry myself. It is manifested with what I find very interesting in life, and that is getting down to why our bodies act the way they do, why the health issues arise, and how do we change the effects. When I find my body having certain health issues, I investigate why it is happening, what is really affecting me spiritually, ponder on it, meditate, exercise, thing some more, and get the answer, finally changing how I react to things. I guess this is the best answer I can give. I would love to be able to say something profound here, this is my final answer. I could phone a friend, but would rather settle on my own thoughts as the final answer!!!
Thank you to all for participating in this class with me and on my blogs, sharing your stories and experiences giving a different aspect of looking at things. I feel we all learn from each other and will take all to make a better place for us to live in! Better understanding of the self, body, mind, spirit. I thoroughly enjoy this class, very informative and enlightening. I have realized much about myself and excited to learn more. Yvette
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Mental Workout - addition to my initial post
Mental Workout is doing a serious of workouts like memorization, mental imagery, and perceptions that are practiced consistently in order to establish change in how we think, act, learn (Dacher, 2006). The benefits of mental workout, in the long run are positive mental and physical health. We are able to think clearly and quickly. If we let our minds relax, doing nothing with it over a period of time, it loses its abilities to think quickly and memorize adequately. We will eventually get depresses and physically slow down, possibly sick. We have to keep exercising the brain, much like exercising the muscles of the body to keep them strong, firm, pliable, adaptable. To implement mental workouts, we keep exercising the brain with constant stimulation, such as mental imagery, memorization skills, and perceptions, we will eventually change the structure of the brain in a positive direction (Dacher, 2006).
the exercise for this unit, Loving - Kindness, is something to use to mentally stimulate the brain consistently, so that eventually, we will be this loving-kindness person in our life. We can learn this concept and teach it to others, reaching the final goal of integral health.
the exercise for this unit, Loving - Kindness, is something to use to mentally stimulate the brain consistently, so that eventually, we will be this loving-kindness person in our life. We can learn this concept and teach it to others, reaching the final goal of integral health.
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Unit 4 - loving kindness
Dacher's voice has reminded me of somebody I know and could not put my fnger on it. I finally figured out who it was, I could see the face of the person coming in and out of my mind. It is Boston Rob from survivor. He has the same voice and pronunciations as Boston Rob. Thank God the relaxation started with a female voice and sound of ocean waves. I would have not been able to continue the exercise.
I loved the soun of the ocan waves, it helped me a great deal with relaxation and the fact the exercise gives you time to shift from step to step. The main idea helpful for me was to loosen any grasping or attachment to any thoughts or images, just to observe them. It was a very emotional experience for me, as I started to cry, having to let go of emotions I had no idea I was hanging on to. The concept of taking in a loved one's pain is hard for me. Why would I want to take on their pain? I am sure through time and practice, it will become easier and will learn the reason as I go on. I will definitely have to practice this everyday. Absolutely love it!
This is something I would love to have my mom listen too. She is carrying around a lot of baggage that over the years of my childhood, she has bestowed upon me and I have taken on some of her fears. I have realized this and throughout my life I have started to let go of these emotions, realizing they are hers. She has wanted me to be in her world of pain so she wasn't alone in it. She definitely could benefit from this. Yvette
I loved the soun of the ocan waves, it helped me a great deal with relaxation and the fact the exercise gives you time to shift from step to step. The main idea helpful for me was to loosen any grasping or attachment to any thoughts or images, just to observe them. It was a very emotional experience for me, as I started to cry, having to let go of emotions I had no idea I was hanging on to. The concept of taking in a loved one's pain is hard for me. Why would I want to take on their pain? I am sure through time and practice, it will become easier and will learn the reason as I go on. I will definitely have to practice this everyday. Absolutely love it!
This is something I would love to have my mom listen too. She is carrying around a lot of baggage that over the years of my childhood, she has bestowed upon me and I have taken on some of her fears. I have realized this and throughout my life I have started to let go of these emotions, realizing they are hers. She has wanted me to be in her world of pain so she wasn't alone in it. She definitely could benefit from this. Yvette
Saturday, April 9, 2011
My own level of wellness
During a self reflection of my health, I came up with the following assessments, but based on guessing because I have not put any thought into how healthy I really am until it has been a requirement of me in this class. I am not one who visits the doctors, nor do my children. For the most part, we are pretty healthy.
Physically, I would say I am at an 8-9 because I do exercise on a regular basis dong various types of exercises.
Spiritual well-being would be an 8 and psychological would be an 8. Of course, all three are tied together and my physical well being has a lot to do with my spiritual and psychological thought processes or well-being of both. If you are spiritually happy and secure, then psychologically you are happy as well. Physical would follow. Like Dacher says, if we are mentally disturbed, then so is our physical state disturbed. Makes perfect sense how they are all intertwined, a part of each other, co-exist together, etc.
My goals in these areas are to continue to grow and expand in mind, body, and spirit, which has been going on and will continue to go on.
The thing I find very irritating with this concept is, the more I grow within myself and expand all three of these concepts the majority of the world is not doing the same. The more you become aware of their real existence and ideas, versus your new learned ideas and awareness. Eventually, you find yourself outside of the box and people in the box are continuously trying to pull you back in because that is the norm of the majority. You need to fit into their mold of what is normal and are judged, graded, etc. based on this. You are seen as somebody going against the flow of things, as somebody causing trouble, going against the grain. If you ask too many questions, you are considered challenging the norm. What to do, I don't know.
I have done the exercise and find it difficult to imagine the square or circle shape along with the color. I found it to be tedious and irritating, only because I don't have time to do things like this. I have lots of homework, kids that need me, grocery shopping, cleaning and laundry before Monday comes around. The beneficial parts of the exercise are learning to calm yourself step by step, organ and area of the body step by step, using the shaes and colors to help, eventually succeeding in the journey to relaxation. What an accomplishment that would be. I would love to eventually beable to accomplish this myself and hope eventually I can do this. Right now, I have too many expectations, assignments, and duties to do.
Of course, this is they way the majority of society operates on....many things to do on limited time. Arrrgghhh. I can't wait until I am done with school. Yvette
Physically, I would say I am at an 8-9 because I do exercise on a regular basis dong various types of exercises.
Spiritual well-being would be an 8 and psychological would be an 8. Of course, all three are tied together and my physical well being has a lot to do with my spiritual and psychological thought processes or well-being of both. If you are spiritually happy and secure, then psychologically you are happy as well. Physical would follow. Like Dacher says, if we are mentally disturbed, then so is our physical state disturbed. Makes perfect sense how they are all intertwined, a part of each other, co-exist together, etc.
My goals in these areas are to continue to grow and expand in mind, body, and spirit, which has been going on and will continue to go on.
The thing I find very irritating with this concept is, the more I grow within myself and expand all three of these concepts the majority of the world is not doing the same. The more you become aware of their real existence and ideas, versus your new learned ideas and awareness. Eventually, you find yourself outside of the box and people in the box are continuously trying to pull you back in because that is the norm of the majority. You need to fit into their mold of what is normal and are judged, graded, etc. based on this. You are seen as somebody going against the flow of things, as somebody causing trouble, going against the grain. If you ask too many questions, you are considered challenging the norm. What to do, I don't know.
I have done the exercise and find it difficult to imagine the square or circle shape along with the color. I found it to be tedious and irritating, only because I don't have time to do things like this. I have lots of homework, kids that need me, grocery shopping, cleaning and laundry before Monday comes around. The beneficial parts of the exercise are learning to calm yourself step by step, organ and area of the body step by step, using the shaes and colors to help, eventually succeeding in the journey to relaxation. What an accomplishment that would be. I would love to eventually beable to accomplish this myself and hope eventually I can do this. Right now, I have too many expectations, assignments, and duties to do.
Of course, this is they way the majority of society operates on....many things to do on limited time. Arrrgghhh. I can't wait until I am done with school. Yvette
Monday, April 4, 2011
WElcome
I am supposed to post a welcome to my page, so welcome everybody to my page. Feel free to post and comment anytime you want and on the right side, there is some information about myself. Thanks, Yvette
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