Loving Kindness (meditation) exercise/Integral Assessment

 

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I have to say out of all the weekly exercises we do I love the loving kindness exercises. I feel that the people around me including my self really do benefit from these exercises. My boyfriend recently was hospitalized and has been really sick and not feeling well so I did this exercise with him. I love doing these exercises because I helps me to strengthen my healing skills. My boyfriend still has some medical issues but as a whole his feels better about his recovery and now has a positive mindset. I think that is the differences in recovery you must have a positive mindset to begin the process of healing.

The assessment process I have to do twice the first time I did it I seemed to go more towards mediation. But once I re did this exercise I was able to focus a lot more. The area I choose to focus more is the biological and worldly aspect.  I choose biological because I feel like out of all the quadrants I sometimes lack on this area. I would like to work on my diet. I do not eat horrible but I now I can do a lot better with my diet choices. The second aspect I choose to improve on was worldly. Now usually I do not have a problem in this area but with everything going on in my life this sometimes takes a back seat. I not that I have to be an active member of my community I think its super important to do so. So this week I made it my mission to make better diet choices and do a least one volunteer act.

The week I made much better diet choices by watching my sugar. I have a problem in eating way to much sugar. I picked foods that are low in carbs and sugars. I also gave blood to the American Red Cross and I volunteered at a soup kitchen though my church. This week was a great week for me.

The Subtle Mind

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This week exercise was a good exercise but I did not feel like I did not benefited from it that much. I say this because I do yoga at least 3 times and week and we practice breathing curtain techniques often. At the same time this was a great practice for me because breathing does help me take the forces off of my mental thoughts. The oceans wave in the background was a good way to get me to relax. I love being the presents of natural sounds. When I first do these types of exercises sometimes it hard for me to just jump right into it. I need to let all of my thought out first and then I can focus on mind stillness.  I find that taking time out of y day to clear my mind, I notice that I can focuses better and make clearer decisions.  I have to say I felt like I benefited more from the loving kindness exercise  because I felt like it was  more of a healing exercise for me. I really believe in order to be a good healing you must project loving kind thoughts towards that person's way and you will receive them back to you.  I feel like I always benefit more when I can help other people beside myself. This exercise is great if you are looking for a good piece of mind. I feel like when you put good positive thoughts into the world you will get good positive thoughts back to you. Theses types of mind exercise help me to focus on positively.

Loving Kindness

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I really enjoyed the week’s exercise a lot. My mother suffers from high blood pressure that is stress induced. I have been working with her to cut down as much stress a possible and getting her on a good diet.  This week she has been very stressed out and her blood pressure has been very high. I did this exercise once by myself, sending well being kindness in her direction. Later when I told her I did this exercise for her she actually said that her blood pressure when down slowly though out the week. Then I did the exercise once with her and we took her blood pressure shortly after and it was near perfect. I keep trying to tell her that you need to train you mind in a positive way of thinking and you will get very high healing results. My mother was truly amazed that this exercise really benefited her in a positive way. This also helped me because I’m learning new techniques to help heal other people. I have found that if I believe in interagal healing, and I get the person I’m healing to believe as well we both benefit in more ways that one. Later my mother told me that she has felt better that she as in years and she also is thinking very clearly than she has ever before. This just proves that if you have compassion for others it affects both you and other people’s welfare in a positive way. If you attract loving kindness you well receive love kindness in return.

The Mind-Body Connection

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I would rate my physical wellbeing at a 7. This area for me is the area I have to work on the most. I eat somewhat healthy but I don’t always exercise like I should. This is one of the main areas I hope to improve with this class. I would like to improve this area by doing more cardio exercises and taking the time out of my day to plan for exercising. I would rate my spiritual wellbeing at a 10. This area for my is the area that I dedicate the most time to. When I get in touch with my spiritual side I feel better as a being inside and outside.  A lot of people tend to forget this area or not pay any attention at all to this area. I think it is so important to find your spiritually on the road to human flourishing. One way I like to get in touch with my spiritual side is to go to church. I would be lying if I said I go to church every week. I know life happens and I can’t always make it to church, so I like to incorporate spiritually in my physical actives like including prayer in my mediation exercises, hiking or doing yoga.  I would like to improve this area by volunteering at my church’s food drive. When I do work for my church it I feel closer to my spiritual side. I would rate my psychological wellbeing at a 8. I always try to keep my brain training for the Olympian mental fitness. I also like to take 5 min out of my day to relax and regroup my mind, which includes being silent and turning off all thoughts. This keeps me from not going crazy. To improve this area I will make an effort to write down my thoughts and feeling and that will help me cope with things that are difficult for me in life. The exercise the week reminded my of yoga I take a mediation yoga class often and these are the type of exercises we do in class. One way I like to improve myself is by saying positive affirmations. I love how this exercise incorporated positive energy affirmations.

Relaxtion

 

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I tried the relation technique right before I went to work. I know I did this a little back wards but I most stressful part of my day is in the morning. I have to commute a long way to work each day and sometimes I really stress me out. I tried a new approach if I start my day off is a good positive way, the rest of my day with follow for the most part in the same way. It worked well for me and I was so claim driving to work and I came to work in a happy mood. I will try to make an effort to do more excises like this one though out my day so I can be a more claim person.

My journey to relaxation has been a long and hard road.  A couple of years ago I found my self to be so stressed out all the time and I could never figure out how to solve this problem.  Weighting my options I decided to take a stress relation class. From this class I learn a lot of techniques to learn how to control my stress. One technique I still use today is mediation. When I first started mediating, I could not do it to save my life. I was not until I stared doing yoga that I really started mastering this technique. Once I mastered this it open I door for me that I never could imagine, this was very life changing for me a many ways. I started looking at nature in a whole different way and started hiking. Once I started to hike I found that relaxation for me came easy.  I notice that when I hike, I became one with nature and can sort out all my thoughts in a healthy and be able to fully mediate. Once I stared doing this on a regular bases, It changed my life for the better. From this process I have learned that your can’t control or be worried about everything in life because I will turn you in a person one day you will not recognize. It took me almost 6 years to learn how to manage my stress and from this my body has felt better then I has I a long time. I don’t feel so brother with negative thoughts about everything all the time. From this journey I have found myself again and also realized it is my goal to help people heal with integral health. When I first stared this journey I could have never imagine where it would take me.