The Meeting Asclepius and the Creating Visualization exercise were on the top of my list of exercises and practices we have done in this course. I benefited from these two the most and very much enjoyed them as well. I struggled with many but these two in particularly I found come so easily to visualize and truly gave me a sense of peace. It is hard to explain why they worked so well but maybe that is because for both, I was to use my imagination for the most part. I have a very vivid imagination so maybe that helped. For Meeting Asclepius, a wise healer I can do as I did when practicing this and that is to imagine myself as a true wise healer. I love to help others and to imagine myself as healer and for someone to see me as wise give me a sense of great wholeness. I plan to implement this practice/exercise into my life by doing this once a month to remind me that I too am a wise healer.
As for the Creating Visualization, exercise this maybe feel so pleasant and harmony within. To visualize a moment in my life that gave me a sense of great happiness, wholeness, power and well-being was so profound it reminded me that all those things do remain inside of me. I plan to implement this exercise into my life continuing to visualize, continue to use my imagination just as we use to do when we were younger. Think about that. When we were younger, we used our imaginations to no end. Watching my son uses his and the expressions that illuminate from him make me wish I were a kid again. They look so happy and so at peace. Just as I had felt when I was doing this exercise. I used a real moment for this exercise but if you could not think of one you can use your imagination to create one just as I did for the Meeting Asclepius practice. Channel your inner self; you will be amazed what you will find!
I found the “Meeting Asclepius” more spiritual and inviting than the Loving Kindness Practice and Subtle Mind Practice.I found it much easier to listen to the voice & guide me into the steps that were needed.At first when we were told to focus on a wise individual, I honestly had no clued whom.Then we were told to make one up if we did not know of one.The first image to come into my head was a wise Indian Chief.I went with that as I felt at peace with this imagine.The image was of this wise Indian Chief sitting among his tribe/people.There were sitting around a campfire under the stars.He was talking in his native tongue sharing his stories and I just pictured once becoming the chief looking around and seeing the faces focused on every word that is being spilled.There was so much love, trust, and wonderment in their eyes.The belief they felt for their chief and the wisdom that spilled from within and out as the chief sat there.I then felt at peace, I felt wise, and true loving kindness as I imaged myself becoming the Indian chief.I experienced what it may feel like to be a wise individual, one that has met Asclepius; a wise healer.
Meditation has increases my spiritual wellness without a doubt.I have found ways to calm my spirit when I feel my stress will take over me just by doing a simple quick breathing exercise.It has helped in teaching my son on how to calm his spirit when his tired impatient little 4-year-old mind goes out of control.I see that as an adult we can benefit from meditation but so can children.It has really opened up my mind and makes me want to continue to find a meditation exercise that truly works for me but also continue to stride forward in conquering the path to human flourishing.For this, I will not dismiss my stresses anymore, I will heal them through meditation and continue to teach and encourage this practice in my home.
The saying, “One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself” means if you have not seen it or done it, you cannot say that this is the right way.One needs to actually live a certain way before teaching someone about that certain lifestyle or leading a spiritual path.It goes to say if one is telling you that you need to find god or you need to be more spiritual but they themselves do not do the same, they have no right to tell you to do this.They do not have the right to point you in this direction, as they do not know themselves.So in order to “lead” you need to have been led towards the path before and experience those skills before you can “lead” another.WOW what a mouthful there!But as it goes for my “future” clients without a doubt I need to “lead” a spiritual life before I am to help guide them with my suggestions on how they can do this their selves.Therefore, the saying applies to my “future” professional as well.I can implement psychological and spiritual growth by making my inner development my goal.Becoming more aware of the world around me, but becoming aware of self can give me greater knowledge of my true needs and teach me how to touch the more positive side of things than the negative.
The Universal Loving Kindness exercise is a little 10-minute meditation exercise to practice open up your mind and your heart in greater lengths than they are currently.This meditation can help in displeasure and enmity.Universal Loving Kindness is to practice loving everyone, even your enemies.This exercise can be done anytime.
After completing this meditation exercise I discovered that I had no problem falling into a relax state, no problem spreading my loving kindness to others but I did notice that my enemies were not among them.I still left them aside, inside their bubble that I left them when I did the first Loving Kindness Practice.So I have not reached the final leap into our interpersonal development and have not conquered Universal Loving Kindness.This is the area that I still know that I need to focus on for growth and development. This is one of the steps that need to be addressed for interpersonal development and I am having problems with what steps I need to take in popping that bubble.I think it is time that I need.I acknowledge this but this process is still new to me, so please hang in there with me.
The Integral Assessment is personal program that we develop to assess where our strengths and weaknesses are and will give a better picture where we would like to make improvements to promote human flourishing.This is done using the Lines of Development using the four aspects of human experience; Psychospiritual, Biological, Interpersonal, and Worldly Flourishing.
The Integral Assessment help me discover in psychospiritual flourishing in the cognitive level I had problems in the reactive pattern.I do tend to be reactive… but mostly in this aspect for my emotional development I discovered that again have tend to have uncontrolled reactive emotions and anger and fear.This is where I need to address my issues if you will.I need to learn to let go, stop the metal chatter and discover my deepest calling, I want to be like the Woodcarver!!For interpersonal flourishing, I would like to reach out to my community more.I tend to do everything for my family so I would like to get my son involved in helping others as well.When it comes to my health, my eating is under control and the choices I make for me and my family is balanced.I tend to lean towards helping the environment by having my own organic garden and purchasing from my local farmers.Therefore, I was happy with that.I think that falls under biological flourishing and worldly flourishing.As I have completed this assessment, I plan to do this again.Reason for this is I feel I have a better understanding of the breakdown of this assessment than when first applied.Continue to balance everything out and I do know I have work ahead of me!
I began with setting the scene for my mental fitness practice.As I sat down comfortably and put in the CD, I listened to the woman’s voice and the waves and music that played in the background.I was just getting relaxed then all of a sudden I was RUDELY interrupted by static!!!Grrrr the first 2 tracks were fine so I thought YAY, I am one of the lucky ones to receive a decent working CD, NOT!Therefore, I had to go back out into class, grab the audio from there, and start over setting the tone again….
Mental fitness take two: Maintaining a relaxed yet alert witnessing awareness is going to take some effort.I was pulled to my thoughts; it was like a flash just as you see when you rewind or fast-forward a movie, just flipping through the images in my mind.I had much trouble with this exercise in witnessing the mind.I felt myself grasping and clinging with little to no stillness.I understand that I will have sessions when I can achieve this & others I will not but I think that will take a few sessions going by today.This really takes a lot of effort and concentration!
As for comparing and contrasting this exercise to the Loving Kindness exercise they both did set the elemental stage for relaxation as I mentioned above but the Loving Kindness I could spread my feelings out further and beyond onto others.The subtle mind was dealing with me, with my mind.My mind would not SHUT UP!I find my mind doing this at night when lying in bed to fall asleep sometimes.I focused on my breathing, in and out, in and out, and then moved onto the waves that seemed to sing in melody with my breathing.Then I would try to focus on the task at hand, witnessing instead of grasping and clinging.I failed… so frustrating!
The connection in spiritual wellness to mental and physical wellness most definitely starts with the mind.One needs to be at the right mindset or frame of mind to work on their physical wellness.Yoga takes both the body & the mind.You work slowly into each move using your mind to breathe and concentrate on the right move and your muscles to contract and build strength for each next move.Yoga is just one example.Dealing with stress inside the home and out is just like that as well… take it slowly into your next move, your walk through life.The body or physical wellness is and has been shown to be affected if the mind is not at ease.These things are connected and can manifest it anyone of our lives.Take a deep breath and move slowly to your next move.Witness the stillness.
The Meeting Asclepius and the Creating Visualization exercise were on the top of my list of exercises and practices we have done in this course. I benefited from these two the most and very much enjoyed them as well. I struggled with many but these two in particularly I found come so easily to visualize and truly gave me a sense of peace. It is hard to explain why they worked so well but maybe that is because for both, I was to use my imagination for the most part. I have a very vivid imagination so maybe that helped. For Meeting Asclepius, a wise healer I can do as I did when practicing this and that is to imagine myself as a true wise healer. I love to help others and to imagine myself as healer and for someone to see me as wise give me a sense of great wholeness. I plan to implement this practice/exercise into my life by doing this once a month to remind me that I too am a wise healer.
As for the Creating Visualization, exercise this maybe feel so pleasant and harmony within. To visualize a moment in my life that gave me a sense of great happiness, wholeness, power and well-being was so profound it reminded me that all those things do remain inside of me. I plan to implement this exercise into my life continuing to visualize, continue to use my imagination just as we use to do when we were younger. Think about that. When we were younger, we used our imaginations to no end. Watching my son uses his and the expressions that illuminate from him make me wish I were a kid again. They look so happy and so at peace. Just as I had felt when I was doing this exercise. I used a real moment for this exercise but if you could not think of one you can use your imagination to create one just as I did for the Meeting Asclepius practice. Channel your inner self; you will be amazed what you will find!
I found the “Meeting Asclepius” more spiritual and inviting than the Loving Kindness Practice and Subtle Mind Practice.I found it much easier to listen to the voice & guide me into the steps that were needed.At first when we were told to focus on a wise individual, I honestly had no clued whom.Then we were told to make one up if we did not know of one.The first image to come into my head was a wise Indian Chief.I went with that as I felt at peace with this imagine.The image was of this wise Indian Chief sitting among his tribe/people.There were sitting around a campfire under the stars.He was talking in his native tongue sharing his stories and I just pictured once becoming the chief looking around and seeing the faces focused on every word that is being spilled.There was so much love, trust, and wonderment in their eyes.The belief they felt for their chief and the wisdom that spilled from within and out as the chief sat there.I then felt at peace, I felt wise, and true loving kindness as I imaged myself becoming the Indian chief.I experienced what it may feel like to be a wise individual, one that has met Asclepius; a wise healer.
Meditation has increases my spiritual wellness without a doubt.I have found ways to calm my spirit when I feel my stress will take over me just by doing a simple quick breathing exercise.It has helped in teaching my son on how to calm his spirit when his tired impatient little 4-year-old mind goes out of control.I see that as an adult we can benefit from meditation but so can children.It has really opened up my mind and makes me want to continue to find a meditation exercise that truly works for me but also continue to stride forward in conquering the path to human flourishing.For this, I will not dismiss my stresses anymore, I will heal them through meditation and continue to teach and encourage this practice in my home.
The saying, “One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself” means if you have not seen it or done it, you cannot say that this is the right way.One needs to actually live a certain way before teaching someone about that certain lifestyle or leading a spiritual path.It goes to say if one is telling you that you need to find god or you need to be more spiritual but they themselves do not do the same, they have no right to tell you to do this.They do not have the right to point you in this direction, as they do not know themselves.So in order to “lead” you need to have been led towards the path before and experience those skills before you can “lead” another.WOW what a mouthful there!But as it goes for my “future” clients without a doubt I need to “lead” a spiritual life before I am to help guide them with my suggestions on how they can do this their selves.Therefore, the saying applies to my “future” professional as well.I can implement psychological and spiritual growth by making my inner development my goal.Becoming more aware of the world around me, but becoming aware of self can give me greater knowledge of my true needs and teach me how to touch the more positive side of things than the negative.
The Universal Loving Kindness exercise is a little 10-minute meditation exercise to practice open up your mind and your heart in greater lengths than they are currently.This meditation can help in displeasure and enmity.Universal Loving Kindness is to practice loving everyone, even your enemies.This exercise can be done anytime.
After completing this meditation exercise I discovered that I had no problem falling into a relax state, no problem spreading my loving kindness to others but I did notice that my enemies were not among them.I still left them aside, inside their bubble that I left them when I did the first Loving Kindness Practice.So I have not reached the final leap into our interpersonal development and have not conquered Universal Loving Kindness.This is the area that I still know that I need to focus on for growth and development. This is one of the steps that need to be addressed for interpersonal development and I am having problems with what steps I need to take in popping that bubble.I think it is time that I need.I acknowledge this but this process is still new to me, so please hang in there with me.
The Integral Assessment is personal program that we develop to assess where our strengths and weaknesses are and will give a better picture where we would like to make improvements to promote human flourishing.This is done using the Lines of Development using the four aspects of human experience; Psychospiritual, Biological, Interpersonal, and Worldly Flourishing.
The Integral Assessment help me discover in psychospiritual flourishing in the cognitive level I had problems in the reactive pattern.I do tend to be reactive… but mostly in this aspect for my emotional development I discovered that again have tend to have uncontrolled reactive emotions and anger and fear.This is where I need to address my issues if you will.I need to learn to let go, stop the metal chatter and discover my deepest calling, I want to be like the Woodcarver!!For interpersonal flourishing, I would like to reach out to my community more.I tend to do everything for my family so I would like to get my son involved in helping others as well.When it comes to my health, my eating is under control and the choices I make for me and my family is balanced.I tend to lean towards helping the environment by having my own organic garden and purchasing from my local farmers.Therefore, I was happy with that.I think that falls under biological flourishing and worldly flourishing.As I have completed this assessment, I plan to do this again.Reason for this is I feel I have a better understanding of the breakdown of this assessment than when first applied.Continue to balance everything out and I do know I have work ahead of me!
I began with setting the scene for my mental fitness practice.As I sat down comfortably and put in the CD, I listened to the woman’s voice and the waves and music that played in the background.I was just getting relaxed then all of a sudden I was RUDELY interrupted by static!!!Grrrr the first 2 tracks were fine so I thought YAY, I am one of the lucky ones to receive a decent working CD, NOT!Therefore, I had to go back out into class, grab the audio from there, and start over setting the tone again….
Mental fitness take two: Maintaining a relaxed yet alert witnessing awareness is going to take some effort.I was pulled to my thoughts; it was like a flash just as you see when you rewind or fast-forward a movie, just flipping through the images in my mind.I had much trouble with this exercise in witnessing the mind.I felt myself grasping and clinging with little to no stillness.I understand that I will have sessions when I can achieve this & others I will not but I think that will take a few sessions going by today.This really takes a lot of effort and concentration!
As for comparing and contrasting this exercise to the Loving Kindness exercise they both did set the elemental stage for relaxation as I mentioned above but the Loving Kindness I could spread my feelings out further and beyond onto others.The subtle mind was dealing with me, with my mind.My mind would not SHUT UP!I find my mind doing this at night when lying in bed to fall asleep sometimes.I focused on my breathing, in and out, in and out, and then moved onto the waves that seemed to sing in melody with my breathing.Then I would try to focus on the task at hand, witnessing instead of grasping and clinging.I failed… so frustrating!
The connection in spiritual wellness to mental and physical wellness most definitely starts with the mind.One needs to be at the right mindset or frame of mind to work on their physical wellness.Yoga takes both the body & the mind.You work slowly into each move using your mind to breathe and concentrate on the right move and your muscles to contract and build strength for each next move.Yoga is just one example.Dealing with stress inside the home and out is just like that as well… take it slowly into your next move, your walk through life.The body or physical wellness is and has been shown to be affected if the mind is not at ease.These things are connected and can manifest it anyone of our lives.Take a deep breath and move slowly to your next move.Witness the stillness.
