loving kindness

Doing a loving kindness exercise helped me to feel at peace.  I find that when I embrace all people with love and compassion it sets me free to be myself.  I found the practice to be very natural for me.  I feel complete gratitude to be working on my inner life.  I recommend doing this meditation to others as a way of healing and finding inner peace.

Mental fitness involves mental workouts.  It is important to be mindful in our every day lives.  It takes practice to attain a deep awareness of self.  At first it takes practice, eventually it will come easier.  Research indicates that when one works on their mental fitness it improves them on a holistic level.  

meditation, wellness & goals

Rating my physical, psychological and spiritual wellness on a scale of 1 to 10.  I would say my physical health is 8, psychological health 7 and spiritual health a 9.  I say this because I get plenty of exercise in my daily lifestyle with walking, biking, and caring for my children.  I also, eat a plant based whole food diet.  My psychological health is a 7 because I do feel stressed sometimes.  I work with the stress by feeling into my emotions and doing what  I can to maintain calm.  My spiritual health is the highest because I practice mindfulness, meditation and spirituality is important to me.

My goal in the physical category are to exercise more and eat healthier foods.  I want to eat more raw foods and bike more often.  I also want to practice yoga daily.  In the psychological area my goal is to ground myself through meditation whenever I feel stress.  In the spiritual area, I want to do guided meditations daily.

 I really enjoyed the meditation.  I have done similar meditations in the past and I really appreciate the chakra balancing aspect of this particular meditation.  I have been putting off starting my practice and feel that that is one of my goals that came up for me.  I have much to teach about holistic living and just need to find a place to practice and work on getting the word out about what I offer.

guided meditation

The guided meditation exercise was an interesting experience.  I did have some interruptions, which is normal in my life.  I plan to try the meditation again.

 I do have experience with meditation.  I meditate before my children get up in the morning. I go to a transpersonal therapy group that does guided meditations during class.  I have had excellent experiences with this.  I have achieved holotropic states through guided meditation.

integral health

This blog is inspired by my class at Kaplan called psychological and spiritual aspects of healing.  I am thankful for the push to blog weekly.  I have been procrastinating this for some time.  I have another blog that has not been posted on since 2009.  I plan to use this blog for my journey through my health and wellness degree at kaplan and into the future.