Describe your meditative practices for the week and discuss the experience. Explain how mindfulness or meditation has fostered an increase in your psychological or spiritual wellness. How can you continue to apply these practices in your life to foster greater health and wellness?
I don't think I liked this one as much as the last one, I do like the female voice leading the exercise and still love the sound of the water and music in the background. I did like how it had me focus on a person however. I think it's easier to focus on something like that over some of the previous focal points from other exercises we have completed. I didn't like the guy who started and ended the practice however. I am still working on using mindfulness and meditation to help increase my psychological and spiritual wellness, but with each exercise we do, I do see myself actually benefiting from them now. I will continue to apply these practices by searching for other meditations that I find to be beneficial and mindful and make them a normal part of my "wellness routine."
Describe the saying: "One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself" (p.477). How does this apply to the health and wellness professional? Do you have an obligation to your clients to be developing your health psychologically, physically, and spiritually? Why or why not? How can you implement psychological and spiritual growth in your personal life?
I think this saying is very appropriate and can very easily be applied to the health/wellness professional or anyone for that matter. As health and wellness professionals, it is important for us to know how to walk the walk/talk the talk. If we cannot achieve ourselves, what we are trying to help clients achieve, the point is lost. I would never try and tell someone how to fix a car, since I have never worked on one before. We need to be able to experience what the models we teach represent. Just because we have read books about it or spent a week talking about it, doesn't make us experts, we need to put in the time, the experiences, apply them to our own lives and get a deep understanding of them. We also have to know that not everyone is the same and may not react or respond to certain methods and treatments in the same manner. I know I need to work on both psychological and spiritual growth in my own life
I liked the analogy of not telling someone how to work on a car if your never worked on one before. You need to lead by example. We can read all the books we want but we need to practice. We need to practice ourselves and we also need to need to maybe need to teach friends and families to learn how to do use and implement these practices in everyday lives as well. I really enjoyed reading your posts. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI love seeing how we are all making meditation apart of our wellness routine. We are growing as practitioners each day, I think it is so important that we lead by example; showing that this journey is not easy for us. We are all challenged by the process of learning new methods, and how to incorporate them into our daily lives. This witnessing in real time. I love it!
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ReplyDeleteI always enjoy reading your weekly thoughts. I, too, think your car repair analogy makes perfect sense. Sometimes the greatest lessons we can teach others come from our own experiences and may not even be written in a book. Some of the material in our textbooks is really difficult to fully understand and process. Again, I definitely agree the wellness journey is very personal for each person. Not only can we help clients through their journey by relaying our experiences, but they can continually teach us about their journey through their own feedback. Great points!
Kristi,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoy reading your thoughts. I truly feel you have to have experience in order to teach someone. Our field of study will require lots of knowledge and experience. When we choose a doctor or a repair shop we choose base on experience and knowledge. This gives us confidence and a mind at ease when we do business with these particular places. I want my patients to feel confidence, and to earn their trust. You have to be able to practice what you preach!
I was the opposite, this one was my favorite exercise so far. I think it was the fact that I was concentrating on Buddha as my person. To me he is everything that I want to achieve in my life love, peace, love, kindness and wholeness. But that is why there are so many different exercises out there because we all have to find our own personal way to achieve our goals. I really loved the picture that you added to the blog, it is great.
ReplyDeletelove how you decorated your blog this week! I liked this weeks exercise. I am sorry you did not like it that much. I agree it was much easier to focus on a person rather than something else. The sounds help a lot as well.
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