Loving Kindness/Mental Work Out

I enjoyed the loving kindness exercise. I was only able to do it one time but I would like to try the exercise again when I have time. This was a good exercise for me because lately my boyfriend has just been getting on my last nerves and I have really started to dislike him. He is just getting on my bad side right about now. This exercise let me to see past that and I felt at ease and peaceful. The exercise really got me to thinking about my grandmother who is sick. It felt great to actually breathe in her suffering and let out health and joy going towards her. With the things that I am going through this exercise was beneficial. I would recommend this exercise to others so they can get some type of peace of mind and peace with others even if the other people are their enemies. The exercise really does bring some positive energy. It’s like you are breathing in the negative and letting out the positive and surrounding yourself in that. Another reason why I would recommend this exercise is because it helps to remind one that the only way you can love others is by loving yourself first. It is impossible to love others if you don’t love yourself first and foremost and many people do not realize that.

When you think of work out the first thing that comes to mind is staying active with running/jogging, lifting weights, push-ups, and etc.  This is a physical work out that was just described; there is also a mental work out. The concept of a mental work out is to keep your brain active/training so that you can achieve a state of higher consciousness and with that improved healing capacities. you just can’t do this work out for a week and then stop, just like with a physical work out. Studies have shown that a mental work out can bring one peace, calmness, happiness, compassion, and etc. I am going to have to start doing not only some physical work outs but also mental. I will be able to do this by setting schedule times out of the day where I can do more exercises like the ones that we have been doing, praying, and many other activities. Doing these work outs can get a lot of things off of my mind and bring me to peace.

My Well-being Rated

For the unit three blog we were asked to take a moment to reflect on your own level of wellness; physically, psychologically, and spiritually. Based on your reflections, and on a scale of 1 to 10 (ten being optimal wellbeing), where do you rate your A-physical wellbeing, B-spiritual well-being, C-psychological well-being? Why?

A.    When it comes to my physical well-being I would rate it a 6.5. I say this because I really don’t have good habits when it comes to my diet. I went to the doctor a few days ago and I was told that I shouldn’t weigh as much as I do for my age. I try to eat healthy but it’s just hard seeing that I’m not at home I’m always at work so it’s just easier to go and grab some fast food. The one thing that I am doing well with though is eating a lot of chips and candy and drinking soda, I have cut back on those items. Also I don’t really get much physical activity. Before I started working I used to go outside and walk around from the time I went out to the time I came back in, since there wasn’t anything else to do but walk and talk. Now I don’t even get to walk for an hour if thirty minutes.

B.    When it comes to my spiritual well-being I would rate it at an 8. I do believe in a higher power. I love going to church, but when I started working I barely got Sundays off for me to go to church any more. Then I moved to Mississippi with my boyfriend and he doesn’t go so when I do get a Sunday off I still do not get a chance to go to church. To help with that though I will go to my gospel station on Pandora and just listen to that all day. I also pray but I need to do that more often though I don’t do it as much as I would want to.  Over all I am a strong believer when it comes to spirituality when I am having problems I put it in gods hand because I have faith in him and I believe that the will help me through any and everything.

C.   My psychological well being would be rated a 5. I have come to find myself being stressed out a lot with so many things on my mind. To help with the stress though I do try to write about in a notebook that I have just for that purpose. I do try to find time to be alone and have quiet time to just relax and get things off my mind, but it is hard to do that when staying with somebody who wants to have company a lot. On the other hand though I do many puzzles like playing ruzzle, word search, and what’s the word. I do keep myself thinking a lot though so I keep my brain active with some positives things.

I put the next two questions together: develop a goal for yourself in each area (physical, spiritual, psychological) and what activities or exercise can you implement in your life to assist in moving toward each goal

A.   My goal for my physical well-being is to lose some weight (50 pounds for now). I want to be able to find time to do some type of physical activity. I was just talking to a friend last night and I told him I wanted to start going to a gym and he said that he would go with me. When I talked to him again today he asked when we were going to start going so I think he is going to help me out with that goal. My next goal is to start eating better.

B.   My goal for my spiritual well-being is to start going back to church real soon even if that means waking my boyfriend up on Sunday mornings and requesting Sundays off at work.

C.   My goal for my psychological well-being is to stay stress free as much as I can. I can do this by writing in my notebook more when something is bothering me and finding me a quiet place to just go and meditate even if that means to go sit in the car.

The last thing to be done was to complete the relaxation exercise The Crime of the Century. Describe your experience. (What it beneficial? Frustrating? etc.).

·         I love doing these relaxation exercises but this I just couldn’t concentrate. I’m sick so it’s already hard for me to breathe so I couldn’t really relax and get into the exercise the way that I wanted to. Also my phone was on vibrate and it kept ringing so it was distracting me. I am going to have to try this exercise again when I am not sick because the last two that I actually got to do I enjoyed them and I was really able to relax.

Relaxation Excercise

I loved the Journey On relaxation exercise. When it first came on though I was like what in the world is this. What is this that the professor has us listening to? I must say that I was able to relax throughout the exercise. The music and the sound of the man’s voice were very calming. Right before I started the exercise I was thinking about so many other things at one time but once I started the exercise all of those thoughts were gone. All I was able to focus on was the exercise. This exercise actually got me to relax the muscles in my body which is actually hard for me to do sometimes. This exercise was just amazing to me because lately my neck has been hurting for some reason and I can’t find a way to get it to stop hurting. But while doing the exercise I was saying in my mind that I need my neck to relax and after a while I can honestly say that I wasn’t feeling the pain anymore, but after the exercise was over I felt the pain slowly coming back. I must say that I am going to do this more often because my body is so tense from being at work all the time and getting enough rest. This relaxation exercise can be effective in reducing stress and anxiety you experience in your everyday life.

Welcome Class and Professor

Hello class and professor

I would like to welcome you guys to my blog. Like I stated in a post earlier this is my first time ever doing a blog. This is all something new to me but it seems like it will be fun and very interesting. Since I am new to this I will need for you all to work with me until I get a better understanding of what is expected and what I need to do. Also I will try to stay up to date with my post as much as possible. It’s already hard to keep up with the discussion boards due to my work schedule. Now let’s get to blogging. I can’t wait to read others post and learn something new. I hope you all enjoy my post.

New To Blogging

This is my first time being involved in a blog. It all sounds interesting but still new to me. I am going to have to get used to this whole new thing. I got started with this blog do to my class, Creating Wellness: Psychological and Spiritual Aspects of Healing. So getting to the point everyone just bare with me while I am getting used to this blog.