Describe your meditative practices for the week and discuss the experience.
I used the suggestion form the MP3 and just invented a mentor, for me it was just an oriental man with an "inner-peace", someone I had admired from the old "Kung-Fu" series back in the 70's. I let him lead me through the exercises of quieting my mind, finally achieving it.
Explain how mindfulness or meditation has fostered an increase in your
psychological or spiritual wellness.
I am still working on it, it is a work-in-progress, but I know I have put the deep-breathing exercises into my routine daily, at several times during the day. I even used it yesterday at the dentist's office while having fillings put it.
How can you continue to apply these
practices in your life to foster greater health and wellness?
By continuing to use my "mentor" to promote a quiet mind, and also using the deep-breathing exercises I am trying to take control of parts of my body that have until now been left to their own devices. Just by making the attempt is a form of exercise, and will make my mind and body "muscles" stronger and more easily controlled.
Describe the saying: "One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself"
(p.477).
It means the health care professional must try to develop his own spiritual awareness, and stimulate its growth to actually experience what the model represents.
How does this apply to the health and wellness professional?
It means that the professional should work on using the model as a way to actually have some experience in what he is trying to achieve in his clients, and not just be guessing at what he is trying to accomplish, this way he will have an expectation of the progress and how it benefits him.
Do you
have an obligation to your clients to be developing your health psychologically,
physically, and spiritually?
In my opinion yes I do, or why would they take my advice, someone who did not think it worth my own time to practice.
How can you implement psychological
and spiritual growth in your personal life?
By using the exercise we just listened to on the MP3, to quiet our mind and gain control over it, and to reach a higher level of consciousness, and also using the deep breathing exercises.
I feel that the exercises have made a huge impact in the way that I handle things and my stress levels. I have had much success in quieting my mind and easing my spirit.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with you on practicing what we preach. I would have a hard time taking advice from someone who does not seem to live it themselves.