Unit 6

The exercise is about teaching ourselves how to love. One can expand their mind and heart by repeating over and over for 10 straight minutes, “may all individuals gain freedom from suffering; may all individuals find sustained health, happiness, and wholeness; may i assist all individuals in gaining freedom from suffering; and may i assist all individuals in finding health, happiness, and wholeness.” This exercise is based on the hope that one can have universal love.

The assessment is trying to help one figure out their source of difficulty and suffering and try to help fix it. In order to do this exercise one must first relax their mind. When quiet ask yourself,” what aspect of life is the source of difficulty and suffering?” then ask yourself, “what line of development is most essential for me at this time? And what is my current level of development and what can i aim for?” After accomplishing that, the next step is focusing on promoting integral development. To do this, ask yourself, “what area of my life is ready for growth and development?, Is it the same area that also needs healing or is it another area?, And what would the next level of development look like?”

I never really discovered anything new about myself; I pretty much know who I am. I may be stressed out and be suffering all the time but I know why and my problems can’t be fixed with exercises like these. When it comes to loving people I have always been the type of guy that will give the shirt off my back if someone needed it. I have given my last $5 to a homeless man before when I was hungry because I knew he was hungrier.

The areas I have chosen to focus on is just waiting out time because I know by the first half of next year everything will go back to the way they use to be and I will once again be stress free. So until then I just have to keep reminding myself that this stress is just temporary and things will get better.

In order to keep myself sane until this time arrives I can do activities to keep my mind off of things such as work some puzzles, watch some movies, Christmas shop, and spend time with my newborn. I know how to keep my mind off of my problems and so far I feel like I’m doing a pretty good job.       

Reference:
Dacher, Elliott S. (2006). Integral Health: The Path to Human Flourishing. Laguna Beach: Basic Health Publications.

Unit 5

It seems as though these exercises are getting better however I still have yet to find one that really works for me. The only thing I liked about this one was that it is a lot like what I do when I get upset. I want everyone to leave me alone while I calm down and then I can go back and continue my conversation. I’m wondering if these are not working on me because I am full of stress and hopefully when I lose some of this I can go back, try them again, and hopefully they will work.

To me this was a very hard to do because I am so not physically fit and with all my stress I am not mentally fit either. These are however goals of mine starting the first of the year. I want to relieve some stress, see a chiropractor to fix my back, and start eating healthier. Once all of these start occurring then perhaps I will then be able to explain how the connection is manifested in my personal life.  

UNIT 4

I tried the experience but unfortunately it didn’t have much of an impact on me. I even tried it three times and still I didn’t get anything from it. I believe it didn’t work on me because I’m not really the type of guy that meditates. I do however think that this could work on someone else because there are people in this world that swears on exercises like these. I guess I’m not a very affectionate enough person for relaxing exercises to work which I believe may be  one reason why I didn’t get anything from it.

The concept of mental workout is to strengthen the mind. The proven benefits is that by strengthening the mind it makes it easier to train which makes it better to become happier and more relaxed. I can implement this to foster my psychological health by learning to work on my inner peace to reduce my stress.

unit 3

On a scale from 1-10 describing my physical wellbeing, spiritual well being, and psychological well being I would have to say a 2 for all of them. My physical well being is low because I hurt all the time and my pain causes a lot of distraction and stress. My spiritual because I feel as though half of the time I am lost and not sure what life has in store for me, and my psychological well being because I have so much stuff going on right now such as my job, no money, school, new baby, just got emergency custody of my daughter who doesn’t want to be up here, and other little things.
My goal for physical well being is that the first of the year I am going to start going to a chiropractor and hopefully once I get my back feeling better, other things will start feeling better. My spiritual goal will have to wait until after I get my degree. My psychological well being will eventually calm down once my daughter goes back to her mom’s, this has been one of the biggest stresses I have ever had in my life and it has came at a very bad stressful time of my life.

 I like to go out and have fun to and go places to help me ease my stress which allows me to focus on achieving my goals. When I get to stressed out even walking around Wal-Mart helps. Any little thing that can take my mind off of things and gives my body a break from all the stress is what I do to help myself get to where I need to be.

These meditation tapes do not work for me, I cannot have relaxing things going through my head when I am stressed because I have not learned yet how to focus out my stress in a quiet place. What helps me is watching a little TV; Maybe a comedy, something to get me thinking like a mystery, or a sporting event. That is what eases my mind.

unit 2

My name is Craig Harrington and I currently
live in Columbus, Ohio. I am not a blogger and if it wasn’t for having to do
this in a previous class I would have never been on here before. I do like that
I can put a face to a lot of names while on here, I usually just give out my Facebook
site but this is just as easy. Hope everyone else likes this more than I do and
hopefully I get a chance to read most of everyone else’s post on here.
I listened to the audio of the Journey on
Relaxation and it pretty much took all I had to finish it. I am not much of a
relaxation audio listener and by the time it was over I had a headache. I hope
everyone else had a better experience than I had and hopefully this will be the
last audio I have to listen to.
I know that both of these post are kind of
negative, please don’t think I complain a lot or that I’m a negative person,
this has just been a really boring exercise for me and I know it will get
better as the term goes on.