Final Post

I think that I am over all doing very well I would say that I am at an overall score of about a 7 out of a possible 10. I have not gotten as far as I would have liked with my goals so I will need to reexamine them and see if I may need to start off smaller and get bigger.

I really am grateful to the things and tools that I have learned in this class. It has been such a great tool in my life and has allowed me to see and examine things in a way that I had never really thought of or paid much attention too before.

Thanks for taking this journey with me !

Rachel

unit 9 project

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pLFR7_0G9BgrTnrpGuTTu5YyxvvcyMbvXhYYoMeWweU/edit

Unit 7 :Meeting Aesclepius

For this exercise we are to first focus on a wise individual that we feel a special connection. We are to carefully study them , then we are to sit in communion with them.  Next we are to visualize a beam of white light coming from their crown, throat and heart the light should represent, loving kindness and purity and should begin to fill our mind, heart and throat and should bath and purify us with the wiseness of our focal person.

This exercise was very interesting I find that with all these exercise we are to take the positive qualities that we find in others and should try to take them on or into ourselves. I think that these exercise make me more aware of positive qualities and negative qualities of others and I defiantly think twice about my actions before I react or speak, although I am a work in progress I am better able to identify positives and negatives.

One cannot lead another where one himself has not gone
This statement means that you will not be able to tell someone how to achieve there goals or how to walk their spiritual path if you have not already walked that path, which to me ultimately means that every persons path to integral healing will be different because no two people have the exact same experiences. 

Unit 6 levels of development

Universal Loving Kindness

This exercise was the perfect way to end a stressful day it helped me to release some of the tension that I had been feeling and allowed me to continue to continue working on giving off loving kindness. Although ten minutes seemed like a lengthy amount of time I stuck it out a really was glad that I did because ten minutes was the perfect amount of time to achieve  a sense of calm an peacefulness. This exercise was kind of like an affirmation to me.

The second exercise was a little harder for me I had a bit of a hard time with this I know that I need to work on myself emotionally and my psychospirtual  mind and I think that what we are learning is defiantly leading me on a right path but I still felt like this exercise was a little more difficult.

I have been regularly working on the loving kindness exercise  and the subtle mind exercise and I think that these exercises are really helping me co with the stresses of my busy schedule, I also think that I am going to try to add the universal Loving kindness exercise as well. 

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Nft6XmzdPYV1jNwoCbLgnWWLtVkazYrRTTYWSduXz6M/edit

Subtle Mind

This weeks exercise was very challenging for me, I was completely overwhelmed with amount of work I had on my plate both at home, for work and school. It has been a challenge to just find the time to just sit down and try the exercise, But I tried to keep it positive and look at it as a challenge as was talked about in our text.

One of the main differences that I found was we not focusing on our emotions and feelings as we did with the loving kindness exercise . With that exercise we were basically projection those thoughts and feelings of loving kindness out, because this is the way to get them back. With this week we were focusing on our breath and removing unwanted thoughts and feeling from our mind, which can be difficult when you are thinking constantly about what else needs to be done.

It is important to remember that when  I let negativity take over, I am ultimately setting my self up for failure. When you I positive I  am better able to think and react to the things that I need to do, I am going to be physically happy mentally happy and spiritually happy if I continue to add these steps into my life and work on perfecting them.

Rachel S.

Mental Work Out

This week we were asked to examine the mental work out from our text. What is a mental work out? you may ask. Well  we have to practice our mental exercise to allow for us to practice strengthening our psycospiritual mind  just like we need to work out to strengthen our physical state. A mental work out must be worked at regularly just like our regular work out basically if you don't use it you will lose it .

I got to a late start with this weeks assignment so I have only had a couple of chances to practice these but I will say that I really enjoyed the exercises especially the loving kindness one. I was definitively making with the breathing in of breathing in a loved ones suffering and breathing out happiness this step just clicked for me as did the ones that followed and I can't wait to see what happens as I continue to practice this exercise.

Loving Kindness

Hello All

This week was a very interesting week and I learned a lot, I cant wait to see what you all thought. 

If I were to rate my physical well being I would give my self a 6 or a 7 I have really been making a very strong effort to exercise  regularly and eat well cutting out certain foods I have even stopped drinking pop all together. I also have no medical problems so I would say that I am in OK shape but not great shape. Spirituality I would rate my self at about a 4 or a five I know what I believe and feel but have not quite connected with my spirituality a hundred percent I am a work in progress. Psychologically I would rate myself at about the same as spiritually because I have many stressors that I am learning to deal with and handle with out being overwhelmed.

If I were were to take each of these areas and develop goals for them my physical goal which I have already been working on would be to become the healthiest and fittest I can be by eating the best I can and getting regular exercise. Spirituality I would like to connect more with my spirituality spending more time reflecting and identifying my spiritual values. Psychologically I would like to under stress and how to better deal with it so it effects me less.

In this weeks reading we learned about preparing ground this stuck out to me. Learning and reading about loving kindness is the most important thing to stabilize our moods; skillful action and cultivating behavior that is support of integral health and letting go of behaviors that are not; and silence and stillness allow us to  be able to quite our mind and find an inner peace and calmness.This is important in achieving all of our physical spiritual and psychological goals.

Thanks for reading 

Rachel

Journey on relaxation

 Today for class we asked to try out a relaxation technique in which we listened to a man with a very soothing voice and music take us on a relaxation journey. We were asked to imagine the blood from our stomachs traveling to our hand and we were suppose to feel our hands become warm and heavy (Which I did). There was a point in the exercise that we were suppose to attempt to lift our hands but should not be able too, this part of the exercise had a little more trouble with because I was able to move them but I was so relaxed that I did not want to. Overall I really enjoyed this exercise and definitively was able to feel myself relax maybe it something that gets better with practice.


Have a great Week!
Rachel S.  

Welcome Statement

Hello Class 

I just wanted just wanted to welcome everyone to blog, this should be a new fun and interesting experience.

I hope you all enjoy! 

Rachel