Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Final Project on Integral Health Plan
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
Review of Mental Exercises
Over the last few weeks I have been pleasantly awakened to some exercises that do help to quiet the mind and awaken the true nature of the soul. These exercises include: loving kindness, meditation subtle mind, visualization and a few more. Each of these exercises gives us an opportunity to create a moving experience if we so choose. It is in our best interest to try out each style to see which one works for us. For me the most beneficial is a combination of meditation/yoga, and the subtle mind exercise.
I would like my practice to consist of a working wellness center. I would like this center to be multi tiered to include all aspects of healing. The bottom floor should be the exercise area : weights, work-out classes, yoga. The second floor should be massage/counsel, facials and body wraps, the third floor should be mental exercise and spiritual exercise that include: meditation, prayer, visualization, and the like. One this property there should be meditation gardens, therapy animals, and an organic food kitchen that incorporates cooking classes and meal planning. Each phase of the center will reach to attain the opening of the mind and a higher vibrational path.
In my personal life I already like a certain way by eating certain foods, prayer, massage. I would like to bring in more subtle mind and visualization. The subtle mind was easy to work with and helped me to feel the most heightened sense of connection. However the visualization was the most difficult to attain however I think this area is important for my development. Each day should include a set amount of time for either exercise. It is imperative to rotate to challenge the mind. A writing practice should be implemented after each exercise so that progress can be monitored and recorded.
Choosing to live this way and help others to change at their own speed is all part of the integral path to wellness and human flourishing.
I would like my practice to consist of a working wellness center. I would like this center to be multi tiered to include all aspects of healing. The bottom floor should be the exercise area : weights, work-out classes, yoga. The second floor should be massage/counsel, facials and body wraps, the third floor should be mental exercise and spiritual exercise that include: meditation, prayer, visualization, and the like. One this property there should be meditation gardens, therapy animals, and an organic food kitchen that incorporates cooking classes and meal planning. Each phase of the center will reach to attain the opening of the mind and a higher vibrational path.
In my personal life I already like a certain way by eating certain foods, prayer, massage. I would like to bring in more subtle mind and visualization. The subtle mind was easy to work with and helped me to feel the most heightened sense of connection. However the visualization was the most difficult to attain however I think this area is important for my development. Each day should include a set amount of time for either exercise. It is imperative to rotate to challenge the mind. A writing practice should be implemented after each exercise so that progress can be monitored and recorded.
Choosing to live this way and help others to change at their own speed is all part of the integral path to wellness and human flourishing.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
"Meeting Asciepius"
This was an interesting meditative practice because so much was compiled into such few sentences. We had heard it before though I just like to be able to resonate on what is expected before moving on so quickly. So It took a couple listens to really be able to allow my mind to let go and stop nagging.
I enjoyed focusing on a wise one: my focus was my grandpa who is no longer around.
I enjoyed sharing a beam of white light in the areas of the mind, throat, and heart with the essence of him, me, and the a feeling of wise, loving kindness with the yellow beam resonating in my vibrating body matching it light with my soul and doubling it.
One is able to foster anything through the element of practice and earlier ventures. It is imperative to reinforce such meditations to gain access to human flourishing and integral health.
The statement; "one can not lead another where one has not gone themselves" is saying that one can not fully understand human development and flourishing with out actually experiencing it themselves. Through such an adventure one will have developed the skill, understanding, and wisdom necessary to share.
I enjoyed focusing on a wise one: my focus was my grandpa who is no longer around.
I enjoyed sharing a beam of white light in the areas of the mind, throat, and heart with the essence of him, me, and the a feeling of wise, loving kindness with the yellow beam resonating in my vibrating body matching it light with my soul and doubling it.
One is able to foster anything through the element of practice and earlier ventures. It is imperative to reinforce such meditations to gain access to human flourishing and integral health.
The statement; "one can not lead another where one has not gone themselves" is saying that one can not fully understand human development and flourishing with out actually experiencing it themselves. Through such an adventure one will have developed the skill, understanding, and wisdom necessary to share.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Current Level of Development and the Loving Kindness Exercise
From the loving kindness exercise I am able to witness our capacity of universal loving kindness and how powerful of a tool this can be. This practice (while hard to memorize at first) can quickly become a driver toward interpersonal development. Through this practice we are able to not only share this gift with ourselves but with the world. While my first experience was not as open as I wanted to be my second experience allowed me to release more love, through an open heart, sensitivity, generosity, and emotional intimacy.
Through a formal assessment we are all able to take a real look at who we are and where we would like to end up as an individual. One must first quiet and still the mind and then focus attention on the four quadrants of the integral map before taking inventory. One will find that maybe one or all areas need more focus and development. There is no right or wrong only awareness and understanding, love and forgiveness.
One should focus on each of the four quadrants individually and identify specific areas that need more development. From this exercise I have determined the following: psychospiritually I would like to further develop the calm-abiding mind. Biologically I would like to further develop my anatomical body in a more active way, and make time for more development in the spiritual/body. Interpersonally, I feel I have a good understanding of I, you, and all of us but would like to look more closely at the concept of us. In the final worldly view I would like to learn more about true survival not city survival, and creative expression through a art of some sort.
I feel that by developing each of these areas more fully I will be able to reach a new level of mind/body/spirit. Once obtained more can be uncovered. Through more meditation I will be able to work on my development of a calm-abiding mind. I will be able also more toward a mental and physical fitness level that can enhance the calm-abiding and the anatomical body. Both will help to further develop the spiritual/body. From this standpoint I can see how the interpersonal development will follow in my expansion of "us" as a whole with no one left in a void. From such development I may find that I take more time for worldly development of which has always been an interest. I would love to make time for outdoor survival, and further understanding of creative expression along with my own development of that expression.
Just being able to verbally express these needs for more development will help to create the motivation necessary for the start of this development.
Through a formal assessment we are all able to take a real look at who we are and where we would like to end up as an individual. One must first quiet and still the mind and then focus attention on the four quadrants of the integral map before taking inventory. One will find that maybe one or all areas need more focus and development. There is no right or wrong only awareness and understanding, love and forgiveness.
One should focus on each of the four quadrants individually and identify specific areas that need more development. From this exercise I have determined the following: psychospiritually I would like to further develop the calm-abiding mind. Biologically I would like to further develop my anatomical body in a more active way, and make time for more development in the spiritual/body. Interpersonally, I feel I have a good understanding of I, you, and all of us but would like to look more closely at the concept of us. In the final worldly view I would like to learn more about true survival not city survival, and creative expression through a art of some sort.
I feel that by developing each of these areas more fully I will be able to reach a new level of mind/body/spirit. Once obtained more can be uncovered. Through more meditation I will be able to work on my development of a calm-abiding mind. I will be able also more toward a mental and physical fitness level that can enhance the calm-abiding and the anatomical body. Both will help to further develop the spiritual/body. From this standpoint I can see how the interpersonal development will follow in my expansion of "us" as a whole with no one left in a void. From such development I may find that I take more time for worldly development of which has always been an interest. I would love to make time for outdoor survival, and further understanding of creative expression along with my own development of that expression.
Just being able to verbally express these needs for more development will help to create the motivation necessary for the start of this development.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Breathing and the Subtle Mind Exercise
OK first off there is something terribly wrong with my CD particularly On track three. It sounds like when the t.v. goes out. Anyway track four is still good.
So in hopes of not screwing this up I read through chapter 7, and made sure to read Practice Two twice. Then I put on my own music (massage stuff via pandora) and began to breath. Now as a kid I learned how to meditate with my grandpa who also did yoga for two hours every afternoon. So, I understand this breath work with breathing process. I lay on the floor and began my meditation with my eyes closed. Because of my job I work with my breath to make my body anatomically correct the first few moments and then I began to quietly turn off any triggers that my mind activates. I breath these words out my focal point is strength, endurance, balance, energy, peace, and love for all. A mantra the message I wish to carry today. I continued this process for about 25 minutes until the door bell rang.
I should mention trying to bounce up after a deep breathing meditation was a really vibrational experience. My body was actually very awake on a "hightened senses" kind of way. I felt extremely alive and in tune with my environment around me. I truly embraced this moment and shared it with a hug with my visitor; a truly fantastic moment. However, I prefer not having to bounce up, to take the time for the energy to drop back into your body gives to a since of ahhhhhh.
I liked this exercise better than the loving kindness exercise. Or maybe blending them in an integral fashion would be better. Breathing in suffering for a loved one and let the dark cloud dissolve in our hearts while focusing on the breath. the loving kindness had way to much visualization and didn't really focus on concentration. Breathing is repetitive and easy if we can focus on it and make it powerful then we will be able to enhance loving kindness with out breath!
There is a strong interconnection between mental, physical, and spiritual wellness. They all are inter-related. Our breath connects us to our minds. We can use our breath to gain perspective, connection, and understanding of all the mental, physical, and spiritual acts all at the same time. If we stay focused and allow these thoughts to come and go our minds are telling us what is needed. Things that need to be focused on and dealt with so that there can be a quietness and calmness in our physical, mental and spiritual bodies. Think in threes people! They all relate!
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Hawaiian meaning of Ha
To breathe , exhale, to breathe upon, as kava (special root) after praying and before prognosticating; breath, life, breathed into the open space, the spirit of his mouth, the breathe of his mouth.
So in hopes of not screwing this up I read through chapter 7, and made sure to read Practice Two twice. Then I put on my own music (massage stuff via pandora) and began to breath. Now as a kid I learned how to meditate with my grandpa who also did yoga for two hours every afternoon. So, I understand this breath work with breathing process. I lay on the floor and began my meditation with my eyes closed. Because of my job I work with my breath to make my body anatomically correct the first few moments and then I began to quietly turn off any triggers that my mind activates. I breath these words out my focal point is strength, endurance, balance, energy, peace, and love for all. A mantra the message I wish to carry today. I continued this process for about 25 minutes until the door bell rang.
I should mention trying to bounce up after a deep breathing meditation was a really vibrational experience. My body was actually very awake on a "hightened senses" kind of way. I felt extremely alive and in tune with my environment around me. I truly embraced this moment and shared it with a hug with my visitor; a truly fantastic moment. However, I prefer not having to bounce up, to take the time for the energy to drop back into your body gives to a since of ahhhhhh.
I liked this exercise better than the loving kindness exercise. Or maybe blending them in an integral fashion would be better. Breathing in suffering for a loved one and let the dark cloud dissolve in our hearts while focusing on the breath. the loving kindness had way to much visualization and didn't really focus on concentration. Breathing is repetitive and easy if we can focus on it and make it powerful then we will be able to enhance loving kindness with out breath!
There is a strong interconnection between mental, physical, and spiritual wellness. They all are inter-related. Our breath connects us to our minds. We can use our breath to gain perspective, connection, and understanding of all the mental, physical, and spiritual acts all at the same time. If we stay focused and allow these thoughts to come and go our minds are telling us what is needed. Things that need to be focused on and dealt with so that there can be a quietness and calmness in our physical, mental and spiritual bodies. Think in threes people! They all relate!
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Hawaiian meaning of Ha
To breathe , exhale, to breathe upon, as kava (special root) after praying and before prognosticating; breath, life, breathed into the open space, the spirit of his mouth, the breathe of his mouth.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Psychospiritual Flourishing and the Loving Kindness Exercise
Recently, in class we were asked to participate in a meditation called Loving Kindness. This exercise is beneficial to helping one to evolve to full psychospiritual flourishing. Having loving kindness for our loved ones, ourselves, all others in the universe including our ememies helps us to gain perspective in the higher conscious states. These states include: wisdom, peace, compassion, happiness, and wholeness. When we can quiet our minds and allow love and kindness to flow freely in our hearts and to other ouside our relm of being we are generating a greater vibration to the world and this vibration will come back to use...an ebb and flow of conscious love, wholeness, and healing. Although our minds are difficult to shut off sometimes (most of the time) it is nice to use this video to help guide this process because with encouragement and guidance quieting the mind becomes less difficult.
It is suggested in our text that this proces becomes a daily venture which will become our mental workout. A mental workout is a daily committment that we make to ourselvesto achieve and evolve our psychospiritual life. this process will allow us to access its capabilities and resources. This mental workout involves a contemplative practices each day that is a progressive development of an expanded consciousness and healing practices that also involves rest and relaxation. This mental workout is made up of two parts: loving kindness and the subtle mind (witnessing, calm-abaiding, and unity consciousness). These two components heal at the source and drive human flourishing. One can implement a workable and successful mental workout through dedication, and practice. However, it is helpful to practice each day at a specific time in a specific location and this meditatio will make a difference in how you feel and how you relate to others.
It is suggested in our text that this proces becomes a daily venture which will become our mental workout. A mental workout is a daily committment that we make to ourselvesto achieve and evolve our psychospiritual life. this process will allow us to access its capabilities and resources. This mental workout involves a contemplative practices each day that is a progressive development of an expanded consciousness and healing practices that also involves rest and relaxation. This mental workout is made up of two parts: loving kindness and the subtle mind (witnessing, calm-abaiding, and unity consciousness). These two components heal at the source and drive human flourishing. One can implement a workable and successful mental workout through dedication, and practice. However, it is helpful to practice each day at a specific time in a specific location and this meditatio will make a difference in how you feel and how you relate to others.
Friday, July 23, 2010
Breathe in the Light: Physically, Spiritually, & Psychologically
I believe that we have the power to change each of these areas of our lives by making the choice to do so. Doing this will allow ourselves to grow and change into a more dynamic state of well being. If I were to rate myself on a 1-10 scale (1 being low and 10 being high) for physical, spiritual, and psychological well being I would not give myself a 10 in any ares because there is always room from growth and learning.
Physically: 7
Since I have chosen to dedicate my spare time to school I have felt like my time for exercise has disappeared. I still am active and during my massage I am still physical yet I would like to be able to have more time for walking in the morning and at least one major activity such as soccer or ultimate Frisbee each week. This would allow me to fulfill this need and make me feel better as an individual.
Goals: set the alarm for 6am and take a 1 hour high powered walk/run each morning, once school is out I should be in good enough condition to get out and play some soccer or Ultimate.
Spiritually: 7
I have often felt that this area was fairly developed because of my own feelings on spiritual faith. I am a true believer of the divine and am able to feel connected to the source through the work that I do and whenever I am in the elements of our world. My grandfather Kabool has taught me lots about how to reach a quiet space in my being so that I can become aware of this connection through Yoga, meditation, and even just a simple walk in the woods. However, because of school and work my time in the outdoors and alone is limited and this must be adjusted so that I can feel fully connected once again.
Goals: Set aside certain time that I can commit to each day that allows me to either do yoga or meditate so that I can center myself, connect to the source and re-energize my being. This time may start with 15 minutes but eventually I would like to work up to 90 minutes.
Psychologically: 8
I feel myself to be quiet and centered inside, I feel my heart grown for most people I come into contact with, thee is very little that triggers me. Yet there is always room for growth. If I was to pick an area that would truly benefit my being it would be the triggers of my mother. There are many deep triggers that to this day upset me. I have reached out, written letters and tried to get us to work on them but to no avail she has remained quiet and unresponsive. Finding some form of closure or being able to discuss these issues needs to happen in order for me to move forward psychologically.
Goals: I need to make a choice of what to do. As a daughter I feel it is my duty to reach out and continue to do so until the resistance has been undone and one can began to make progress toward a more healthy relationship. However, I keep asking myself how often I would like to keep banging my head against a brick wall. This area feels stuck and possibly talking with a professional or bringing in the help of the entire family maybe a way to expand this area so that closure can be found.
This weeks meditation of chakras was fantastic. I found that it truly related to my professional work as a massage therapist. Sometimes we can feel areas that are blocked in a persons body and we are able to call in these colors/chakras to help heal the blockage. This mans voice is so relaxing and it is easy to fall into a heightened since of relaxation. By the end of the meditation is felt:connected, balanced and energized. I have been enjoying this aspect of the class so much that I have shared it with my family, coworkers and friends.
Physically: 7
Since I have chosen to dedicate my spare time to school I have felt like my time for exercise has disappeared. I still am active and during my massage I am still physical yet I would like to be able to have more time for walking in the morning and at least one major activity such as soccer or ultimate Frisbee each week. This would allow me to fulfill this need and make me feel better as an individual.
Goals: set the alarm for 6am and take a 1 hour high powered walk/run each morning, once school is out I should be in good enough condition to get out and play some soccer or Ultimate.
Spiritually: 7
I have often felt that this area was fairly developed because of my own feelings on spiritual faith. I am a true believer of the divine and am able to feel connected to the source through the work that I do and whenever I am in the elements of our world. My grandfather Kabool has taught me lots about how to reach a quiet space in my being so that I can become aware of this connection through Yoga, meditation, and even just a simple walk in the woods. However, because of school and work my time in the outdoors and alone is limited and this must be adjusted so that I can feel fully connected once again.
Goals: Set aside certain time that I can commit to each day that allows me to either do yoga or meditate so that I can center myself, connect to the source and re-energize my being. This time may start with 15 minutes but eventually I would like to work up to 90 minutes.
Psychologically: 8
I feel myself to be quiet and centered inside, I feel my heart grown for most people I come into contact with, thee is very little that triggers me. Yet there is always room for growth. If I was to pick an area that would truly benefit my being it would be the triggers of my mother. There are many deep triggers that to this day upset me. I have reached out, written letters and tried to get us to work on them but to no avail she has remained quiet and unresponsive. Finding some form of closure or being able to discuss these issues needs to happen in order for me to move forward psychologically.
Goals: I need to make a choice of what to do. As a daughter I feel it is my duty to reach out and continue to do so until the resistance has been undone and one can began to make progress toward a more healthy relationship. However, I keep asking myself how often I would like to keep banging my head against a brick wall. This area feels stuck and possibly talking with a professional or bringing in the help of the entire family maybe a way to expand this area so that closure can be found.
This weeks meditation of chakras was fantastic. I found that it truly related to my professional work as a massage therapist. Sometimes we can feel areas that are blocked in a persons body and we are able to call in these colors/chakras to help heal the blockage. This mans voice is so relaxing and it is easy to fall into a heightened since of relaxation. By the end of the meditation is felt:connected, balanced and energized. I have been enjoying this aspect of the class so much that I have shared it with my family, coworkers and friends.
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