1.Complete the "Meeting Asciepius" exercise on track #4 of the Dacher CD. Describe your meditative practice(s) for the week and discuss the experience. Explain how mindfulness or meditation has fostered an increase in your psychological or spiritual wellness. How can you continue to apply these practices in your life to foster greater health and wellness?
When we use mindfulness we open our minds and increase our other senses other than sight. Since I have begun my meditational journey I have noticed that I am able to feel more clearly, hear better when needed and be able to calm down more. Meditation has also helped me lower my blood pressure, and I have even been doing breathing processes to keep calm and comfortable. I plan to continue this in my life by doing it more. I also want to introduce my husband to it even though he is a bit against it, I hope he will come around.
2.Describe the saying: "One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself” (P.477) How does this apply to the health and wellness professional? Do you have an obligation to your clients to be developing your health psychologically, physically, and spiritually? Why or why not? How can you implement psychological and spiritual growth in your personal life?
To me this statement means that one can’t teach another to do something when they have never experienced it themselves. When dealing with health and wellness we need to make sure that we have tried and grasped these things that we teach. If we expect a client to do something we have to be willing to try it on ourselves to get the best benefit. One example is if we are 100lbs overweight and we are telling a person they are fat and need to lose weight, they are not going want to lose weight as much as if a person who is thin is telling them to lose weight. We can implement these things by doing meditative processes, yoga or other calming exercises.
Have a lovely week everyone. Stay safe and happy! My daughter’s 4th b-day is tomorrow.
Sara
Hello Sara,
ReplyDeleteI just want to say that it may be the lifestyle that one needs to change in order to integral health. In this way, one can obtain longer lifestyle by incoporate certain changing behaviors. The second question might have to do with the jounery that individual must set-example or mentor to be followed.
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Vibol
It's wonderful that these meditations are helping you lower your blood pressure. I know how important that is for you right now.
ReplyDeleteI asked my husband every day for weeks to try one of the meditations and he kept saying sure but never did it. One day while he was sitting all comfy in his chair, I put the headphones on him and he really got a lot from it. He's decided to add it to his phone so he can meditate on the train commuting to and from work.
Take care, my friend.