Unit #4 Loving Kindness, mental workout

I found this experience to be an eye opener in the sense that I really don’t take enough time for me. It’s almost as though I feel guilty trying to sit, lay and relax for 15 minutes. I feel as though I should be doing something. Or due to my health issues I’m already in a place of not doing that much so to stop and take yet more time it’s like really asking for too much. This is where I know I beat up on myself, way too much. So this exercise for me was a bit difficult, even though I’m able to identity with the benefits. I would most certainly recommend this to others. It’s the relax, stop and smell the roses once in a while that most people miss out on. Mental workout in my understanding is stages in which we develop the mind. Just as though we workout the physical body we need to do the same for the mental element of the whole (self). The benefit is that we get to flourish/evolve within our psychospiritual life (Dacher, 2006). I can focus on using "mental workout" as intake of positive reinforcement for my mind on levels of consciousness and unity from within to "train and tame the mind"( Dacher, 2006). Take time to love on me, to in return be able to give love to others.

Dacher, E. (2006). Integral Health: The Path to Human Flourishing. Laguna, CA: Basic Health Publications, Inc.

Unit#2 Welcome and reflective

Hello Everyone,

Isn't it great to know that we are now able to communicate with each others within seconds of our thoughts? All thanks goes to the great minds of the past who dare to dream, and just to dream but dream big; big enough to change your life and mine. I'm learning each day how to navigate various websites because of them. Developing this blog, as easy as it now seems to maneuver, at first it felt like I was losing my mind. It felt as though professor had sent out to go and move one of the national monuments! But I'm loving the challenge it brings, because around very corner I can say I completed the task and learnt something new.

Reflecting on our listening material I must say It took me to a place of peace. A place I never knew excited with a 14yr and a 3yr old under the same roof. I never knew I was able to speak/tell my body to relax and it would go into a state of relaxation. I actually felt the blood as it moved through my body. The tingling sensation throughout my arms and legs; they felt alive for the first time. Well that's outside of watching them move me about each day! I do hope these upcoming weeks become more and more enlightening and empowering for us all.

See you soon Recca!

Unit#3 self assessment

My physical wellbeing is suffering at the moment. One, due to medications and its inflicting limitations and two, when I had the opportunity to take full control over it, I didn’t. I always wanted to (and still will, in the near future run at least a mile a day) or ride a bike ten miles to the beach. Spiritually I see myself as being young, I’m still seeking, searching to know and understand more about what is or should be. So I’m just not following family tradition. As to my psychological well-being, at the moment it is a bit troubled. I have not developed or find that balance as of yet. I have not fully learned to acknowledge the mind and its thoughts, then not allowing it to take me over and disrupt my present state or demeanor.

My goal which I’ve already started on to develop in all three areas is: Daily while brushing my teeth in my mornings, I’ve start to do 20 squats within that 2-3 minutes of brushing my teeth. Spiritually I’m listening and reading to more messages every morning. I’ve also incorporated some “me and my mind time” to acknowledge how I’m feeling in that moment. Then psychological I’m practicing positive self-talk; while also listening to positive things from motivational speakers.

After completing the relaxation exercise I feel more empowered to follow through on the path I’m on with self-acknowledgement and the small baby step towards recovery. So I would say it was very beneficial! It helped me to know I belong, I deserve, and that I’m creating my balance, with every waken day that I continue to feed positive images and thoughts and messages to my mind.

Just Keep Moving

Today I was at a crossroad in my life.  For the first time ever I didn't know, nor wanted to know if I was coming or going.