My two favorite practices that worked best for me

It is hard to believe this course is already almost over. I have truly enjoyed most of the exercise and practices and have learned alot about myself in these past 8 weeks. The two practices I plan to implement in my personal life will be visualization and meditation. With both of these exercises I just felt a sense of inner peace. It gave me time to focus on all the positives and good in my life allowing me to feel comfort, calming and relaxation. I have been trying to implement these in my life every morning before I even get out of bed. I lay there for an extra 10 to 20 minutes thinking about my life, what changes I want to make, focusing on all my happy places. During this time I feel a connection with my mind, body and spirit. I believe eliminating all the stresses in my life, not allowing all the little things to bother me will give me greater peace within my self which in return will give we happiness, wholeness and health. With these steps I hope to gain lasting holistic health.

Unit 7 "Meeting Asciepius"

For myself this week's meditation practice was a bit different than the past weeks. I focused on my brother which I lost a few years ago. At first it was very difficult but as the exercise continued I felt like he was right here with me. I thought about how much I loved him, how I missed him and then my thoughts went to our younger years and all the laughs and tears we shared together. As the practice went on I felt such an inner peace and calming I really believed that this type of mediation helped me with some of my grieving. I don't think I have aloud myself to except that he has passed on but once I completed this exercise I was smiling at the feelings I felt.

1. "One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself” I believe this to be a powerful statement. I am a firm believer that one can not understand someones path if they have never traveled it before. This apply's to the health and wellness professional because we must understand what our clients our feeling and what is happening within their lives in order to help them reach human flourishing. We have an obligation to your clients to be developing our health psychologically, physically, and spiritually because  if we have not reached human flourishing and integral health then what right do we have to try and practice this with our clients. Each day we can implement health, happiness and wholeness in our own lives by letting all the negatives disappear and replace them with a more positive outlook on life.

Unit 6 Integral assessment of my life

As I completed the first part of our assignment on Universal Loving Kindness, I had to stop and think about all the people that have it so much worse in life that me. Sometimes I take my life for granted and don't realize how many people are starving, homeless or our dying from a disease. This exercise made me open my heart up to others that are not close to me. The ones as I drive down the street in my new car holding a sign saying "I'm homeless and need food". I have stopped many times and givin this people a value meal and just go on. Never looking back at their struggles. After I completed Universal Loving Kindness I felt like I had a personal experience, I have a deeper understand of my society and how their our so many uncontrolled situation's in my world around me.

The next step was my integral assessment of my life. I thought were do I start. All four aspects need attention. As I thought about my past and present relationships, my diet, am I as spiritually as I want to be, can I focus more on being the person I have always wanted to be instead of just going with the motions. As I layed their on my couch and felt the stillness of my mind and body release all the negatives. I came to realize that I'm the only one that can change my life, I can have a life of health, happiness and wholeness if I stay focused on the important things and let go of all the things holding me back.

This class, and this exercises have aloud me to see that we each hold our own destiny and we must take control of our inner self to have complete human flourishing.

The Subtle Mind Unit 5

I started this exercise out listening to the audio, for some reason listening to the voice makes it difficult to relax so I decided to do this one from the reading. I had a much better experience than I did with the Loving-Kindness practice. I felt that the breathing techniques allowed me to find peace within my mind and body. With each breath I felt the stress and emotions leave my body. My mind did develop witnessing consciousness and I had unity in my consciousness. I could feel all the tension be released as I proceeded with this practice. I was allowed to stay focused on the steps of my breathing and felt a relationship between my mind and body. During the process I felt that my thoughts and feelings were not as important as I thought they were and I felt at times I was escaping all the negatives. Once I completed this, I layed there so relaxed and just at peace with my self and my life.

Connection of the spiritual wellness to mental and physical wellness is how we gain psychospiritual flourishing. With spiritual wellness we can allow our mind and body to have health, happiness and wholeness. We can find inner health from within ourselves and with using the practices and exercises in our life will allow use to release our daily stress and pressures and find total integral health.