Health and Wellness

Unit 6

With the Loving Kindness meditation exercise I discovered I was separated from others by the problems I was having on my job, with our mortgage, with our business, with our bills and with our grandson.  Reciting those four sentences helped me to remember I was not alone.  I had to move from the center of my experiences to a sense of oneness so I would not be up and down with pleasures and sufferings.  Everyone is having a problem in one area or another.   Reciting the words made me realize I was being selfish in my own world not paying attention to others as I should.  I do feel guilty, but there seems to be no time.  By the time I put out one fire two or three are burning hot.  I thought about my sisters and where they are located in a nursing home and one in a group home. I feel much better as to think and pray for others at this time and not have to pray for me and my family problems. 

The area I choose to focus on is the sense of oneness with others.  I once was there and I let my problems take me away.  If I get back to that I can be oneness with myself and heal myself, rid myself of emotional stress and diseases.

I can use a witness mind when I am dealing with the problems to reduce the mental chatter, and that will lead to calm abiding mind, which will be a segway to Unity consciousness.   I think the real problem is the subtle mind.  I have so much mental chatter until I cannot concentrate on anything as I should.  I forget things, I get flustered, and then I want to give up, but I really cannot, so I am in a constant circle of stress and illness.  So in order to get to health and wellness I will need to practice mind/body practices to get to biological flourishing.  With that I need to spend more time with my spiritual self.  These are areas I have found to be helpful and rewarding when practiced.  I will continue them, especially during the school year. (Dacher, 2006)

I did not finish my posting for my blog, I missed question 3.

What is my most stress? Right now it is to finish school, and not being able to do some things with my family.  My focus is Kaplan right now it is my growth for my profession.  Reading the assessment has made me more aware that this can cause some conflict in my family life.  This is a short term source of conflict right now it will pass.  I have learned to flourish my life in turn my health through balance.  Therefore, I can not give all my time to work and school and family suffers.  When I focus on school or my problems it closes my heart to otheres because I am so crowded with my own problems. 
Those situations are not my intentions, it just seemed to fall that way because I have not learned to balance my situation. I could not listen or hear because I was so stressed. Modification is something I am doing as I type because of this class I have learned to reduce mental chatter, meditate more and get back to my exercises.  I do visit nursing homes twice a month unless I have a project, that is my way of giving back. 
Practicing the universal loing-kindness mantra has helped me be more patient with my spouse, because I am a Type A personality I get frustrated because he does not get it sometimes.  But this has helped me be more patient and not get frustrated.  I think about how God shows so much loving-kindness to me I am ashamed to not show it to others.  I feel much better now to admit it and to be working on changing it.  I am meditating and paying attention
to all the mental chatter (witnessing) to lead up to a calm-abiding which in turn will lead me to unity and integral health.  (Dacher, 2006)

Dacher, E.S. (2006). Integral health: the path to human flourishing. Laguna Beach, CA: Basic Health Publications, Inc.  

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