Unit 6

Hello,

  This week I sat down to do the universal loving-kindness exercise. At first it did not do much for me, I than set my self away from outside noise, and started the exercise over. I found that when I was repeating those 4 linees, my thoughts turned to those that I might know that are suffering. Was not anything to serious, pains from a knee surgery or a sore back. Then I found that my thoughts went to how I might be able to help. I thought this was a great exercise to think of others instead of just focusing on your self. The areas in which I have decided were areas that I needed the greatest possible growth and development is biological. I feel that my fitness and nutrtion are areas of my life that I really need to do something about. The last several months I have reslacked off and been burnt out. I need to sit down and come up with a plan that encourages me to eat healthier as well as eating smaller portions. I also need to determine when is the best time for me to do some exercise. This will help me to get myself in better shape. And I know I need to and I need to make the time for it. Like I have said before I want to start yoga when I move into our house. I will have the space to do this. I think that yoga will be good for my health for my body as well as my soul. It will be a great way to have some peace and quite.

Jessica

Unit 4

Hello again,

With this weeks audios it was hard for me to focus. I have been sick and was not able to focus the way that I would like. As I listened to the loving kindness I found that I focused my thoughts on my daughter. My daughter is my world, and I want to teach her so many things. I feel that loving-kindness expressed in the audio I show with my daughter every day. I can only hope that my daughter will also show it to others. The people in our lives won’t be here forever and we need to show that love and kindness to them every chance that we can. All of this makes me think that we need to treasure everything and everyone. I cannot help that anything having to do with love, makes me think of my daughter first and foremost.

When we had to think of someone suffering the person I thought of was a parent from my work. I work in a daycare and take care of infants. One of the children in my class, her mother has stage 4 breast cancer. In a few weeks she has to have surgery. When she was talking to us she was telling us that she had her breasts would be gone the next time we saw her... to say goodbye to the ladies and she laughed. She is sitting here trying to make the best out of a hard situation with a smile on her face. It broke my heart, she has two young children and you just do not know what will happen. Over the next few weeks my thoughts and prayers will be with the family.

The concept of “mental workout” is to work-out the mind or you can say exercising your mental state. Our minds need to be exercised just as our bodies do. Mental workouts can benefit us to be a better person, a loving-kindness person. Mental workouts help to relax oneself, and bring a person to a calmness. I am not sure how they can foster my psychological health. I do know that I need to do mental and physical workouts to help me be a better person and a healthier person. I want to set an example for my daughter.

Jessica

Dasher, E. M.D (2006) Integral health: the path to human flourishing, Laguna Beach, California

(P.S. Sorry post shows sunday and not on saturday. I accidentaly deleted the first one.)

Scale 1-10

Hello everyone,

My spiritual well-being I would have to say is a 1. I believe in god and pray to god but not all that often. I think part of your spiritual well-being is finding your inner zene and calmness. One of the exercises that I think I could do to help me is to take 10-15 mins a day where I sit by myself in silence and work on my breathing. Once I have done this I feel it can allow me to connect with god. My goal is to find the time to do that exercise.

My psychological well-being  and my physical well-being I would have to put together and I would have to say they are any where between a 3 and 7. The reason I say this is because the issue I have weighs on me psychologically and physically. I have put some weight on and I am unhappy about it. I know I need to do something about it but it is hard. I try not to make excuses but sometimes it is just hard. I work fulltime, go to school fulltime, and a mommy, house to take care of. I feel that I hardly have enough time to get the amount of sleep I need let alone workout to drop a good 60-70lbs. I know that it is not healthy for me to beat myself up for it, however I find that I di it anyways. I am not happy with my weight but I am having a hard time coming up with a solution that I can follow and keep up with it. The weight that I have put on has effected the way I think of myself and the way I look at myself. How do I change something that is hard to find the time? How do I give up those foods that taste so good but need to stop eating? How do I just suck it up and do it? By the time I get home from work I take the dogs out for a few mins, put stuff away, cook dinner, clean up dinner, give my daughter a bath, take dogs out again, put daughter to bed adn then time for hw. If I am lucky I will get about 5.5 hours of sleep to maybe 6.5 a night and I am still tired. How do I balance everything but make time for me and make me a healthier me? I know what my goal needs to be and that is to come up with a plan that I can follow. This would be a plan that will allow me to have time to workout but also help me to eat better. I am always trying to do this but I always fall off and mess up. As of right now to be honest I am not sure of the activities or exercise that will help with this goal. I am working on it and still have not gotten there. Open to ideas and suggestions.


I enjoyed the relaxation exercise. I think I need to start doing these earlier in the day because since I am tired it tends to relax me to the point of being really tired. I have been listening to them at night so I would not be bothered. As it is my boyfriend was trying to talk to me while I was listening to it. Anyways I find it amazing that I can sit here and listen and focus on it and feel so relaxed and kinda feel the weight of anything on my mind kinda just lift away even for just a few mins. I need to work on my indigo blue, my balance. I think that I need a little more balance with everything that I have on my plate. I need to find a little time for me and relaxing the mind and body to help my body find a balance. This audio really relaxed me and helped relax some muscles that tend to be tense. I think that this audio is beneficial because it was relaxing. I like things that help me relax. What I like about this audio and the one from last week is when I listen I put my feet up. My feet and ankles are sore and when I listen to these the tension lifts for the time being and I can really relax. I need more of these that I can keep on hand for when I need to relax. I might have to try and save the links or something.

Jessica