Unit 4 Exercise Review

My experience to the loving-kindness exercise was very pleasant. I was not able to stay focused on what the women wanted me to do the entire time, but I think the background noise of waves kept me in a state of calm even when my mind wondered. For me the hardest part about these exercises is staying focused, my mind so easily wonders. When she asked me in the beginning to pick a person whom I loved and held with tenderness and I thought to myself, “no one”, and I think that made me a little panicky at first. I think touch, as a way to express love, is not prevalent in my family what so ever. No one hugs in my family or anything like that and I think that threw me off. After I got through the first couple minutes I was able to relax my mind and follow the rest of the exercise. I would recommend this to certain people. I’m not sure it is for everyone, but there are specific people in my life that I’m sure would appreciate this exercise. Exercises like this I think could be considered mentally working out your mind/brain. Doing these kinds of exercises can give me the ability to control my thoughts and emotions, and develop a level of awareness that can help me help others in their time of need. My mind seems to always be on the run, and these workouts could help me control my thoughts; allowing me to be still and then organized.

 

Unit 3 Refelction and Exercise

Rating my Well being

After reflecting on my overall well-being it I have decided that I am only doing so-so. Physically I am probably a 5 on the scale. I rated myself this because I went through a very stressful time a couple weeks ago and it did some serious damage on my gut and probably my immune system even though right now I seem to not be sick except for some crummy allergies. Spiritually I would also say a 5 because in this category I will always want to improve, I only say this because my spirituality, personally, is related to God. Spirituality also has to do with connections to others and I would rate that even lower, probably a 3.5, I am not very connected and I have had some superficial connections lately that are not healthy. Psychologically, I would rate myself a 7 or 8 because I feel like through the reflection that I have  been doing over the past weeks has helped me grasp some understanding of myself and what I need to do to improve in certain areas of my life.

Goals/Exercises

Physically I have already begun working towards my goal of obtaining balance in the systems of my body. I have been trying to fix this by turning inwards and doing some spiritual healing as well as making some diet changes that will help heal my gut. For instance I quit drinking coffee, milk, and eating starchy processed flour foods like pasta and white breads. I find that often around others, I will pretend to be something I am not, and I think this hurts me spiritually. So my goal for this week is to be true to who I am and honest about it with the people around me, in a way that is humble, loving, and kind. An activity that could help promote this, would definitely be reading my bible. I know that not everyone’s spirituality has to do with religion, but for me reading the bible would help encourage me in my faith and provoke me to act with wisdom. That is probably going to be my most challenging goal. Psychologically, I think a good goal to make for this week is to not procrastinate on anything. Any time I find myself getting things done on time, my stress level go way down. An activity that would help this would be using my planner regularly, when I write down what needs to be done, it gets done.

Relaxation Exercise Unit 3

For the unit 3 meditative exercise, I thought it was interesting, I think my stress levels were low to begin with so I didn’t feel much different after the exercise. I also had trouble staying focused, he wanted me to think of things that were the color he was mentioning and then my mind would bounce around to all sorts of things. I don’t think colors, for me personally, helped me establish how I felt in certain parts of my body, maybe objects, but not colors.

~Initial Post~

Hello fellow classmates, this is my first post and I suppose it needs to be reflective as the instructions have stated. These past few weeks I have made some reckless decisions having to do with relations to other people, really just one person (I really don't want to go into very much detail at all). Anyway, things have ended badly between me and said person and I have been very distracted by the whole thing. After much reflection I have found that I am more disappointed in myself than I am with the person who jilted me. I feel it would be best if I found the courage to forgive myself, because at the root of it all I think that is why I feel so poorly. Somehow, and maybe with the help of this class, I will be able to understand how to except the mistakes I make, and move on, rather than beat myself up over them. Good luck to you all in the upcoming weeks,

                                                                                        ~Katie