The difference between these two exercises are the loving kindness one focuses on your feelings towards your loved ones and implementing loving kindness to them and back to yourself. The Subtle Mind exercise focuses on your breathing and clearing the mind. I have difficulty with both of these. The loving kindness exercise makes me really emotional. I am going through a rough week and am an emotional roller coaster as it is plus dealing with supressed emotions that the exercise makes me think of makes me a train wreck. I have to literally stop the exercise and regain my composure and restart it. The subtle mind exercise is just difficult because I have sooo much mental chatter going on that I can never clear my head! it is going to take me quite awhile to get to that point I feel. I have so many supressed emotions from even my childhood that it'll take awhile to get through everything. But I am positive that if I keep doing these exercises that I will eventually find a peace of mind! They are helpful and they do work which is amazing.
The connection of spiritual, physical, and mental wellness is they all work together. You cannot have one without the other!
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Loving Kindness
I think this exercise was really emotional, well for me it was. The part where it asks you to think of images the good and the bad and just observe was really hard for me. I push things so far back into my mind to try to erase them that I think I have alot of unresolved feelings. And crying is just something I don't like to do, I feel weak. This is something I will have to work on. I feel like I am a natural nurturer, I love other people and will do anything for them if I can, but when it comes to myself I don't do the same. I just thought it came with the territory of being a mother, you always put everyone else's needs before your own. Like I'll go weeks being sick before I go to the doctor because I tell myself you don't have time to be sick, so i get up go to work, clean house, make dinner, do homework, until I drop. Which I know is unhealthy, but I still do it. I think this class is going to help me alot, I need alot of phychological healing, I need to learn new ways of dealing with emotion and handling them in a more healthy way. I don't think suppressing things is healthy at all I just have never learned how to deal with things in any other way. I think even after this class I will continue to do these exercises and see if it makes a big difference, I believe it will.
Mental workouts are things that you do to stimulate your mind. Anything can be a mental workout, like reading, coloring, crossword puzzles, word search puzzles, learning a new language, studying something you've never studied before. All of these things stimulate your mind and give it a challenge. If you don't use your brain you lose it, if you just sat and watched television everyday all day your brain would turn to mush, you wouldn't know much of anything. Mental exercise is just as important as physical exercise when it comes to having optimal health.
Mental workouts are things that you do to stimulate your mind. Anything can be a mental workout, like reading, coloring, crossword puzzles, word search puzzles, learning a new language, studying something you've never studied before. All of these things stimulate your mind and give it a challenge. If you don't use your brain you lose it, if you just sat and watched television everyday all day your brain would turn to mush, you wouldn't know much of anything. Mental exercise is just as important as physical exercise when it comes to having optimal health.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Unit 3 blog/reflection
Hello everyone I hope all of you have had a great week, mine has been rocky! But i'm still climbing so were good. For this weeks blog we are rating ourselves on our physical, spiritual, and psychological wellbeing on a scale of 1-10, 1 being the worst.... Then we are supposed to make a goal for ourself and think of some activities or exercises we can implement to help us reach these goals. Then reflect on our relaxation exercise.
On a scale of 1-10 I would say my physical well being is a 7, this isn't because I am out of shape or inactive because I love to work out and am active at least 4 times a week, it is because I have been suffering from allergies, and colds. I've had two colds back to back and to top it off it's hay fever season so my allergies are goin nuts!!! It's been a rough month...
For my spiritual well being I would give myself a 4 or a 5. This is because I do not spend much time focusing on my spiritual well being to be completely honest it's been quite awhile since I have prayed or gone to church. :(
And last but not least my psychological well being, I would have to give myself a 4 for that one. This is because I am a very disclosed person. I bottle everything up even though I know that's not a good way to deal with things... Unfortunately I don't know any other way....
My goal in each area is to at least get up to an 8 or a 9. An exercise I could do to develop physical well being would be get adequate sleep and start taking my vitamins again. For my spiritual well being an exercise I could do would be meditate or take time out each day even it it's only 10 minutes to sit in quiet and relax my mind. And for my psychological well being some exercises that might be beneficial could be go to counseling so I have someone to open up to, or start writing again. I'm good at putting my feelings onto paper, just not turning them into verbal words... That's where I struggle...
For the relaxation exercise it was very relaxing, once again I'm not sure if it is the guys voice or the music but something about it is tranquil...
On a scale of 1-10 I would say my physical well being is a 7, this isn't because I am out of shape or inactive because I love to work out and am active at least 4 times a week, it is because I have been suffering from allergies, and colds. I've had two colds back to back and to top it off it's hay fever season so my allergies are goin nuts!!! It's been a rough month...
For my spiritual well being I would give myself a 4 or a 5. This is because I do not spend much time focusing on my spiritual well being to be completely honest it's been quite awhile since I have prayed or gone to church. :(
And last but not least my psychological well being, I would have to give myself a 4 for that one. This is because I am a very disclosed person. I bottle everything up even though I know that's not a good way to deal with things... Unfortunately I don't know any other way....
My goal in each area is to at least get up to an 8 or a 9. An exercise I could do to develop physical well being would be get adequate sleep and start taking my vitamins again. For my spiritual well being an exercise I could do would be meditate or take time out each day even it it's only 10 minutes to sit in quiet and relax my mind. And for my psychological well being some exercises that might be beneficial could be go to counseling so I have someone to open up to, or start writing again. I'm good at putting my feelings onto paper, just not turning them into verbal words... That's where I struggle...
For the relaxation exercise it was very relaxing, once again I'm not sure if it is the guys voice or the music but something about it is tranquil...
Saturday, September 1, 2012
My Journey to Relaxation
Hello everyone, I hope y'all are having a great labor day weekend. I know I am, it's been pretty chill so far. Football, beer, queso dip, it don't get any better than that my friends.
So for my experience with the Journey on Relaxation exercise it was really interesting. At first it was very hard for me to totally relax (relaxing really isn't my thing). Then I found myself just totally focused on what he was saying. I don't know if it was the tone of his voice or the soft melody lingering in the backround but whatever it was I found myself relaxed. Then following what he said I could actually feel what he was describing. The blood running from my shoulder to my hands to the tips of my fingers making them warm and heavy like a sponge. I could feel each beat of my heart and follow the blood traveling. Everything became very mellow but vivid, I could feel every sensation, it was amazing. The coolest part was when he said to come to realize your surroundings and i opened my eyes I wasn't tired. Usually if I sit for to long I fall asleep. This was a great experience I will definately be doing this more often, I felt great!
-Felicia
So for my experience with the Journey on Relaxation exercise it was really interesting. At first it was very hard for me to totally relax (relaxing really isn't my thing). Then I found myself just totally focused on what he was saying. I don't know if it was the tone of his voice or the soft melody lingering in the backround but whatever it was I found myself relaxed. Then following what he said I could actually feel what he was describing. The blood running from my shoulder to my hands to the tips of my fingers making them warm and heavy like a sponge. I could feel each beat of my heart and follow the blood traveling. Everything became very mellow but vivid, I could feel every sensation, it was amazing. The coolest part was when he said to come to realize your surroundings and i opened my eyes I wasn't tired. Usually if I sit for to long I fall asleep. This was a great experience I will definately be doing this more often, I felt great!
-Felicia
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