Aesclepias Healing

Hello All! I am not that popular, but I must blog anyways!

So, after listening to the Aesclepias Healing exercise, I feel a peace of calmness and enlightment.  We were suppose to find a person who is a mentor to us in our personal life and focus on them as a communion bringing their wisdom to us through a light.  I chose my grandpa who passed away 9 years ago, he was like a father to me and I looked up to him in everything that he did.  To feel his presence next to me, focusing on just his face for the period of time the exercise was held, that there was peaceful.  But, than to bring more of the exercise into the situation, by placing light around his head and having his own wisdom comfort into me, felt uplifting, safe and peaceful.  

In my last weeks meditations, I have not been thriving like I would like in the sense of Integrative healing.  I do pray a lot; I am a very spiritual person, which in everyday situations puts me at peace and makes me feel more calm.  I do need to bring in more meditation focusing on myself as a whole, finding my inner being.  As I recall though, I have sat a couple times during my lunch breaks for about 5 minutes focusing on my breathing and creating a still calm mind-which feels excellent!  

From the "Consciousness & Healing" book, in one of the readings, the saying, "One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself."  I am suppose to describe what this saying of reason means to me.  This kind of reminds me of someone stopping and asking for directions about how to get somewhere to the clerk, if the clerk had never gone there, the clerk isn't able to give the directions-makes sense right?  Just like the saying if you haven't gone there, how can you lead someone else there?  This make sense in every aspect, from the reading though, the particular saying is coming from an inner consciousness aspect.  You cannot find a Wellness mentor who hasn't gone into their own inner-self, in unity consciousness and expect them to lead the way for you to eventually get there.  This makes sense, you have to find someone who has been there so its easier for you to get there too.  I do feel that I do have an obligation for my clients to pursue in the practices of meditation becoming, healing the spiritual, mental and physical aspects of my own life.  Personally, I am not going to take someone serious if they aren't doing what they say themselves.  Practice what you preach!! You hear this everyday~!
So long everyone who decides to read this this week, have a wonderful weekend!! Bless all of you :)

Integral Assessment

Having completed the Loving-Kindness exercise as I have been trying to do since the formal practice 3 weeks ago, I can say I am presently calm and at peace.  Looking from a place of peace, refraining on my health and my life, I can now make an assessment.  Looking at my life in all four quandrants; psychospiritual, biological, wordly and interpersonal, I am unbalanced probably like most people.  To that of a bar graph, my psychospiritual life is peaceful and whole, I am a big believer in our Lord Savior Jesus Christ as some may disagree, I well respect that, but with this, this makes me feel complete and thankful and whole. Biologically, I am healthy thus far with a bug here and there, but for the most part my immune system isn't too shabby.  Interpersonally, I do indeed have a support system and a social life, I feel that this area in my integral life is up to par, with the boyfriend and great friends around me and a wonderful family that loves me, I feel that this is also a strength I have in my life.  Last in my integral health, as for Worldly, I feel that I am getting there, slowly but surely.  I am young, and being young you're still trying to get out there into the world in finding your purpose.

Things I can work on personally in my own human flourishing would to have more interpersonal skills, it would be a thrill to me to work with those that are strangers, such as doing volunteering, mission trips, etc. I feel that the more I have to give to those that are in need of someone, I can feel more at peace with myself.  Biologically I can improve as well, I am always trying to keep a peaceful mind in the midst of a loaded work day, driving in high traffic or getting involved with a confrontation.  Biologically and psychospiritually these two go hand in hand, if I keep my mind at peace and keep it still as much as I can, than my body will feel at peace, with my immune system being at peace and doing what its suppose to do. Hope you that are reading, enjoyed my personal insight and the best of luck to you and your forthcomings!

Week 5: The Subtle Mind

Okay! So, the Loving Kindness exercise was great and everything, it opened my heart to others whom I don't even know, but The Subtle Mind exercise I thought was much better personally! In comparison, I felt more relaxed focusing on my breathing, than trying to think about people-if this makes any sense?? Sitting in silence, with or without the ocean waves and the flute, my focal point of my own breathing seemed to be very relaxing and I did come to a point of stillness.  I am not so sure if I totally understand myself from witnessing my mind yet, I don't know if I have gotten there or not, but I understand stillness, and my mind was still and peaceful and if felt so wonderful!!  

I am habitual with physical fitness, I think its very important for your body to have exercise due to your vital organs needing they're nutrition of oxygen-but, mental fitness is pretty awesome too.  Peacefulness and stillness of the mind, creates stillness and peace throughout your entire body I feel, and it feels so good, just like after a run you feel more energy and have more alertness.  I have ran 1/2 marathon, not only to me did that feel mentally great, but I felt like I could do physically anything after that (not right after....maybe 2 weeks after..You are defiantly sore!) As I gain more mental fitness and I prosper eventually to the ultimate goal of unity consciousness, I hope to feel just as I did after my 1/2 marathon that I can concer anything!! 

Good luck to all those that try the Subtle Mind exercise! Have a great week everyone!

Unit 4: Loving Kindness

Today's exercise on Loving Kindness was beneficial for me, it was not difficult at all to sit and think of someone I truly love and experience the feelings.  Throughout the exercise I had to hold on to these feelings throughout the exercise thinking about the things that make me happy in life, whether they are people or things, and than I also had to think about the things that don't make me so happy, also enemies if there were any.  This task was a bit difficult at first, to think of something negative, inhaling it, and exhaling happiness and joy-this exercise reminds me of Chapter 4 in Dacher's book of Integral Health, about every action, is skilled, and all actions have consequences. Why not make every skilled approach lead to a positive consequence? 

Working out the mind is a very interesting task, as Chapter 6 notes in Dacher's book, it'll be tuff at first to sit peacefully for a long period of time, start only doing it the first week everyday for about 5 minutes.  I have never mediated like this before, can't wait to start this week with this exercise and find out what my mind will be like the rest of the coming day.  Good luck to all those that try it with me.