Time Well Spent

For the most part I think my scores are still the same. The only change would be is that I have a more knowledge on how to go to the next level of my spiritual and psychological goals. With this class now I have more direct vessels to go to for optimal information. This class has added full to my fire in knowing there are others on that same journey for enlightenment and understanding as I am. For my goals I have increased my training with a weighted back pack with the gear I would need on the Appalachian Trail and I walk five to ten miles a day with it on to condition myself. With the wanting to visit a Tibetan monastery  I looking into joining the local peace dragon for tie chi lesson and every four years he takes a group overseas for training. I'm looking forward to this journey  and very excited about having deep inner peace.

Happy Trails To Everyone

Introduction

            In today’s world it is important for health and wellness professional to develop psychologically, spiritually, and physically. For many reasons being people are beginning to look inward for healing and treatments. No longer trusting totally in convention medicines, which have adverse side effects. For health and wellness professional this means we need to be the beacons of light to guide people on their psychological, spiritual, and physical voyage. To be there at their beginning to explain what they may encounter and to offer assist in these times of awakenings. To never prescribe any psychologically, spiritual or physical treatment .That we haven’t experienced ourselves. For me I think my psychological health needs more developing and nurturing. To do this working on my resilience to make it where when stressful things happen I don’t live there. To recognize it and recover quicker than the last time to  have the  capacity to recognize my  emotions and express them appropriately will help me avoid getting stuck in depression, anxiety, or other negative mood states. Another factor I will develop is to have a strong support network. Surround myself with people I can turn to for encouragement and support will boost my resilience in tough times.  

Assessment

For me spiritually I feel this will be an ongoing learning for life I don’t think I will ever reach a point to where I just say I reached my ended. To score myself now I feel I am on the right path at this point and time in my life. Spiritually I feel more awake to my inner self and gathering a better understand of who I am the true me not just the father me , the son me, and the husband me but the understanding spiritually that they all are parts of me that make of the whole me. My physical strength has always been there growing up on a farm like environment you had to be strong or develop it quickly. Even now I hike work out and do a lot of physical activities, so for the most part my physical assessment would be good. Now as previously stated before my psychologically assessment needs more developing. I learning as I get older my strength is still there but my mental drive is starting suffer and I have learned from this class that the mind is the body and the body is the mind. So I’m only going to advance so far with just brute strength alone so I will have to train and develop my psychological strength to match my physical and spiritual strengths.

Goal Development

Physical

The one goal that I want to achieve physically is to hike the entire Appalachian Trail all 2,180 miles.

Psychological

 The one goal I want to achieve psychologically is to stop feeling guilty. I learned in this class that quilt is a wasted emotion that has always held me back. Feeling guilty for being blessed with opportunities that others don’t have is and will be a thing of my past.

Spiritually

The one of my many goals to do spiritually is to spend 3 months in a Tibet monastery just to learn and observe first hand.

Practices for personal Health

 Some practices for my personal health I would incorporate for physical health would be to train my body to deal with different altitudes and to train myself to live with less. Why I said this is for me to one day hike the entire Appalachian Trail I’m going to need to be physically strong as well as even more mentally strong to spend so much of that time alone. Learning to meditate on a deeper level before I leave on this journey would help in the success of completion. Putting myself in some controlled stress situation, like extreme hiking events or signing up for one of the Spartan warrior’s events. Will help me develop my mental abilities as well as my body and could also help me spiritually.   

Commitment

 To help me keep track of my development I think for me the best way is to keep a journal of my everyday events. Write down all the things that happen, how I felt at the time it happen and why did I have those feelings. This will help me to better understand my trigger points and refocus me on the goals I set out for myself to achieve. It would be like a day to day standard work instruction to start out then once it becomes second nature enhance it with more goals and challenges. I have learned in this class true health and happiness is something you not will quickly acquire it but is attainable threw perseverance and hard work. One has to realize the time is going to pass anyways what is important is what it is spent on and the fruits of your labor.

Double Practice

 The two practices that I have found to be beneficial are love and kindness and meditation. Love and kindness is a way of healing the troubled mind to free it from its pain and confusion. It keeps you focused on the positive things that are going on around you. We tend to magnify and dwell on the things that are negative in our lives and not give any energy to the things that are positive. Love and kindness has helped me see the positive in every situation work or at home. It is a way of refocusing for threw out my day and to not harvest negative energy. I think the meditation goes well with love and kindness practice. With meditation you look more in ward and silence the mind. Meditation brings harmony in creation when you meditate, you are in the space of vastness, calmness and joy and this is what you emit into the environment. I also becoming aware of my consciousness evolving and in time am able to experience the higher and refined states of consciousness. So for me these two practices are helping me become more centered and aware of what is important and valuable.       

Wise One or Wise Ones?

This exercise is going to take more than just one setting to achieve the focus on one individual. This is more of an exercise when you have honed your meditation skills. I never could focus on one “wise one” due to the fact there were so many people who have helped me become who I am. So the first and last face I saw was my mothers who have taught me kindness and understanding toward others regardless of race sex or ethical back grounds. She gave me a solid foundation to stand on which brings me to the second face that came into focus was an old neighbor of ours when I was around 10 to 13 he taught me the beginning stages of what it means to be a man, my mother was great and all but she was limited when it can to things of man hood. Once I got my first job there was a man who taught me that in business your word was everything, make money but don’t let that me the only important part of business. To be professional and honest with your clients, this exercise did help remind me of some of the foundations and the people I haven’t thought about in years. It made me wonder in their eyes would they be pleased with the man I have become.

            With the saying “One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself” kind of explains it self I cannot guide anyone to places or experiences I haven’t done myself.  How can a person be a true testament of an experience if they have never experienced it at all? Within profession you owe it to your clients to have the most hands on experience as possible if not for creditability at least for the fact that you would know how they would feel experiencing something for the first time. So you could at least talked them threw it. For example I just recently took my 10 year old daughter hunting for the first time, I explained what the gun would feel like before she even saw, touched it or shot it. Just so she would know what to expect. There will still be some surprise to her but it will be an expected surprise. Now we got shooting the rifle out of the way and she comfortable with it. Then I explained how she was going to feel as soon as a deer stepped out in front of her. That her heart would pound so loud that you would swear that the deer could hear. That her breathing would speed up like she running and her hands would become clammy and with all that going on she would remember to aim take a deep breath and lightly squeeze the trigger. Now if I hadn’t experienced that same excitement she wouldn’t know what to expect or maybe not wanted to hunt at all. So yes I think in any professor it’s our duty to gain as much experience as possible to help client be successful.             

Controling the beast and releasing love and kindness

The first exercise I couldn’t totally relax and focus on it due to the fact I was reading and trying to memorize the phrases. Once I did it I found it created a more kindness and stillness and an empathy feeling toward individuals I encountered. I don’t know if its because4 I memorized the phrases and that’s what came up every time I encountered someone. But all in all very interesting exercise. I believe people genuinely want to be nice but the fear of rejection and being taken advantage of holds us back from doing so. Which leads me to the second exercise, I think my focus is on psycho spiritual dealing with my emotions. Simply because being the youngest of 10 kids growing I was on the receiving in of a lot of sibling joke and pranks. Nothing major just the normal older brother and sister pranks but multiplied 9 times. But I do feel that made me as I got older to have a no tolerance attitude I didn’t start trouble but I didn’t run from it either. I spent a lot of my days in the principal’s office for defending someone that I saw getting bullied or made fun of it always triggered my child hood experiences. So I found that in my adult life I had to find a better way to channel this energy either join MMA and deal in the ring or learn how to meditate and not be so emotional but emotional enough to react in a positive way and not destructive,  meditation and surrounding myself with positive quotes and sayings. The outdoor hiking does wonderfully also.