Reflections of Who You Are

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My meditative practices for this week was taking a walk and laying on my side closing eyes to clear my mind for about 15 minutes. The walk was a way for me to get in exercise and take in the nature around me so I could release any negative thoughts. When I lie down of my side for 15 minutes it was to clear my mind of stress that this week brought, which when I close my eyes I focus on the positive in my life and when I open my eyes the negative was dismiss after the 15 minutes. Mediation practices are new to meet so I’m getting used to it, because it is like a release of fresh air. Mediation has also, elevate my mind to new height as opening up my mind to receive things; which I sometimes be afraid to accept and I try to change it quickly, but mediation helps me to let the process go smoothly and come natural in my life. The continuous of these practice will be incorporated by me to release whatever is bottled up inside of me, because I think that was my problem before I never had techniques I could use to help me understand my feelings and finds ways to cope.  

The saying, "One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself" means an individual have to experience it before they can help someone else. This applies to health and wellness in dealing with how the experience of an individual can help others foster as they have from what they did on their journey to health and wellness. There are a lot of obligations I have to my clients depending on their situations, but I will have to know the nature of their problem then I would suggest they be open-minded, comfortable, and precise as they can be so they can be their normal self around me. The implementation of psychological and spiritual growth can be done by me letting go of past hurt and being more open to new things.  

Loving-Kindness Exercise/Integral Assessment

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The loving-kindness was an exercise about open the heart and mind to think of individuals who may be suffering to be able to find a way to health, happiness, and wholeness. This exercise was very much needed for me, because I struggle with this daily. My purpose in life is to quit worry about things, because I worry a lot and it is not good for my health. I feel like I have not reach my level of happiness and I do not feel complete; which at times I get real sad. My motive in life is to help individuals even, when I cannot help myself, but I know it have to start with me. I think about the saying daily, “You have to make your own self happy, before you make someone else happy”.  The integral assessment is developing yourself something like soul searching and finding ways to grow on what you know about yourself that need fix in your life that will fulfil it. I’m kind of at a crossroad in my life now, because I’m about to accomplish an achievement in my life graduating from college and I’m having a baby soon. Something inside of me still yearns for more, because I feel like I have so much potential and in my mind I feel like I have fail myself. I’m mature, but in a sense I still feel like a child in some situation where I have not grown up; like I’m currently a student that mostly at home and sometimes I feel like I should have been working on a stable job for a couple years now. I tried to be independent and sometimes when I have to depend on others it either stress me out or I get nervous, because the feeling of being let down makes me feel worthless. The area in my life I want growth and development is improving my health, because I think that if I reach that level happiness and everything else will come with it. The first thing I need to focus on is eating more healthier now and maybe start out walking being that I’m pregnant; then eventually start more cardio, weight lifting, and running.

Comparison Between Loving-Kindness and Subtle Mind

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Both loving-kindness and the subtle mind was great, because they both brought emotions and feelings out of me that I keep going back and forth with. The loving-kindness exercise is still my favorite, because I think it help me to get to the subtle mind. The only thing in my mind that is holding me back I think more is love and happiness, but doing the subtle mind exercise will help me learn when my thoughts and feelings arise how to properly let them fall so they can dissolve. Both exercise I catch my mind drifting, I think with practice these exercise will help me stay focus through the whole exercise. Sometimes I think that practicing these exercise with a group would be more beneficial, because you learn to be calm with your surroundings of individuals like you and everybody connects on a deeper level with understanding how to learn things like the loving-kindness and the subtle mind exercise. I wish sometimes I could practice this exercise with my family, but they are not open to new things; which I think that’s why we hurt more, because they are busy trying to tear someone down to build their self-esteem up. The problems I have more in my mind is about my family, which I wish we were closer. My mom is my only center of gravity, because I can talk to her about anything and when I’m having a bad day her voice always calms me and put me back in the right direction. This amazes me that my mind goes to her and the guidance of God, because they both make me physically, mentally, and spiritually whole when I’m experiencing different emotions, trying to figure out my feelings, and just need to inhale and exhale to feel better.

Loving-Kindness

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The loving-kindness exercise was beneficial to me, because I’m dealing with this now in most aspects of my life. This practice will help me open up my heart more, because at this point in my life I feel incomplete; which it feels like I have not reach complete happiness within myself to be able to express it to other. I’ve always been a kind person and nice, but I never was completely happy; I never had anyone in my life to give me that complete love. My parents were there to nurture me, but I always felt like I needed more as a child too; which I had 6 other siblings my parents had to disperse their love to. Yes, I would defiantly recommend this exercise to anyone, because you never know what individuals are going through; sometimes individuals do not show that they are hurting on the inside they keep it bottle up. Loving-kindness is very much needed, because it gets an individual through life. The concept of the mental work is to develop consciousness and healing capacities to progressive development throughout life with continuous practice and effort. The proven benefits of mental workout is the practice of loving-kindness and wisdom. The practice of loving-kindness and wisdom have to be incorporated to complete a part of the well-being process of happiness, wholeness, and health. These practice helps us love ourselves, family, friends, and even strangers; which we incorporated both loving-kindness together to be able to express love and calmness.  The way I can implement mental workouts is honestly I need to find my happiness with implementing these various mediation exercises, because so far I have learn so much. The problem I have is giving and receiving, which I have to stop thinking about every time I give I need to receive back in return, because the only thing I need that I give in return is love and I don’t really get much of that. Practice is something I need to do more of for love, compassion, and a subtle mind!

My Level of Wellness

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My physical wellness level is an 8, which I'm trying to maintain a good pregnancy and keep my diabetes under control. I feel great most of the time, but I just need to incorporate more exercises for my health and my baby health. My spiritual wellness level is a 6, because to me I have not reach that spiritual level that I have completely been cleanse and pure. My psychological wellness level is a 5, because I have so much going on in my life to where I close it out of my life to not deal with it; which I know that it is unhealthy, because problems should be dealt with instead of avoided. My goal for my physical wellness is eating and getting healthier, because when an individual feel good about their self it shows physically. My goal for my spiritual wellness is to incorporate going to church more, because I feel most at peace when I’m in church. I know some individual will say you can worship the Lord anywhere, but I was raised up in a church and I feel like since I haven’t been going in years I lost my guidance spiritually; even though I do pray I need that worshipping I can connect with. The goal for my psychological wellness is still under wraps, because I think I got to work on myself and achieve a level of happiness for myself to be able to communicate efficiently with someone else that causing these psychological emotions I have. The exercise for my physical wellness is walking daily and doing pregnancy exercises. The spiritual wellness will be mediation as an activity. The psychological wellness will be taking about my problems more with the individuals I have issues with. My experience with the Crime of the Century exercise was relaxing from difference emotions I felt when going through the exercise and the colors was amazing to imagine objects or other things to associate with feelings. The inhaling and exhaling and the body regions associated was very beneficial. I didn’t find anything frustrating, because mediating is always good for the body, mind, and spirit.