1.
Complete the Meeting Aesclepius mp3
(located in the Doc Sharing area). Describe your meditative practices for the
week and discuss the experience. Explain how mindfulness or meditation has
fostered an increase in your psychological or spiritual wellness. How can you
continue to apply these practices in your life to foster greater health and
wellness?
The
meeting Aesclepius meditation exercise this week I was completely lost. In the
recording we were supposed to imagine a person living or dead, or make up a
person to imagine that I would want to be. I imagined mother Teresa because of
her loving-kindness to others. It was hard for me to imagine what she would
tell me, other than treating others as one and treating them with
loving-kindness. I do not understand how to imagine someone with light coming
out of their head and their neck, but I tried. The speaker also made me jump a
few times because I was trying to focus really hard.
I
can see this kind of meditation to be helpful to others because it promotes
increasing psychological and spiritual wellness. Some people need to identify
with a person (alive, dead, or imaginary) to help them follow where they want
to go with integral wellness. To
foster better health and wellness I can practice this listening exercise
everyday or just meditate on what the wise loving person I imagine would say or
do and try to learn off of them.
2.
Describe the saying: "One cannot
lead another where one has not gone himself" (p.477). How does this apply
to the health and wellness professional? Do you have an obligation to your
clients to be developing your health psychologically, physically, and
spiritually? Why or why not? How can you implement psychological and spiritual
growth in your personal life?
This
is like trying to explaining how to meditate when you have never done so
yourself. I think it is important for a health and wellness professional to
practice what he/she preaches. It is better to have experience with something
especially when clients have questions.
Implementing
psychological and spiritual growth can be implemented throughout my personal
life by meditation, praying and going to church, and practicing relaxation
exercises. All of these I have been doing every week since I started this class,
and I think I am learning more and more about myself every time I do these
things.
Nellie,
ReplyDeleteI agree that the imaginary part of the exercise was pushing it. It is hard, especially for inexperienced pupils, to have that imagery available. I enjoyed this exercise, even though my person was real and imagined combined. It is also difficult to maintain your focus when that voice seems to come out of nowhere, that has seemed to happen a lot in these exercises.
I like that you envisioned Mother Theresa, she is the epitomy of loving-kindness. I enjoyed reading your post and wish you the best of luck in the future.
Hi Nellie,
ReplyDeleteI chose my own Mom. I knew what she would say to me. Mom and I had a close relationship even when I lived 400 miles away. Sometimes when I am trying to sort something out, things Mom would have said to me comes to mind in my sleep. No I don't think she has visited me, just I knew her well enough to know what she would have said. I also have a bestest friend who passed away 2 years ago. Seems like whenever I dream about her we are always on the train. We did take some train trips together when we were in our teens. She knew me more than anyone else and her one liners comes to my mind all the time. Even though both are gone in the literal sense, I can still tap into their wisdom.
Deb C
Nellie, it's true that some people need to identify with some other person, and that type of meditation brings them comfort. I find prayer to God to be comforting to me, but for some reason it didn;t work during this meditation. The lights/beams were too distracting for me. I'm glad to hear that so far the things you've done so far are working for you.
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