Over the Past week, I made a conscious effort to provide myself with at least one hour/day for meditation-me time. I also made a point to speak to everyone I encountered on the bus, subway or int he corridors at my apartment complex. I started a conversation today, Christmas Eve afternoon, with a lady from by building who was also waiting at the bus stop. We had an enjoyable conversation waiting on the bus. After we were there for an unusually longtime she hailed a taxicab and invited me to share the ride since we were going in the same direction. She wouldn't even allow me to contribute to the fare, said it was her treat, I could get it the next time.
I will continue to apply these meditation practices and the mindfulness practices to assist with the improvement of my neighborly hospitality to my neighbors. I live in a particularly and fairly bad area of town and it always pays to have friends who will be vigilant for your welfare as well as their own.
The saying, "One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself" (p. 477 of Consciousness and Healing: Integral Approaches to Mind-Body Medicine). This statement suggests that one cannot give advice for someone to go down a road you have not travelled yourself. This applies especially for a healthcare professional because a client is not going to follow the instructions from someone who is not eating a healthy diet, staying physically fit or staying psychologically fit. You cannot expect a client to loose weight if you are gaining weight and staying physically unfit yourself, eating junk food and drinking sodas instead of the healthy fruits and vegetables the client is advised to eat.
I have an obligation to my clients to be developing myself to better health, better psychological health and overall better physical status and spirituality for myself. I cannot expect my clients to "do as I say do, not as I do." it would be like "the pot calling the kettle black" in trying to get my clients to live healthy lives if I cannot "practice what I preach".
I can implement psychological, spiritual and physical well-being for myself by implementing and following my own fitness and well-being program alongside my clients.
Friday, December 24, 2010
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Unit 5--The Key Role of Thought in Wellness and Healing
1. Compare and contrast the Loving Kindness Exercise and the Subtle Mind Exercise. Explain your experience including the benefits, frustrations, etc.
I listened to both tracks of The Path to Human Flourishing, Contemplative Practices: An Audio Companion to Integral Health by Elliott S. Dacher, M. D. Track 2: Loving Kindness Practice and Track 3: Subtle Mind Practice on my DVD/CD player and my TV. I discovered that Track 3 was messed up so I downloaded the Track on the Doc Sharing onto my laptop. I discovered that the Track had a visual display which I found to be very distracting while I was following the exercise. I then placed the CD into my laptop and discovered that all the tracks had similar visual displays on each Track which I again found to be very distracting and in conflict with the audio tracks for each practice. I found the visual displays of each track to be stimulating and the audio tracks to be very calming which created a mental confusion. In order to get this procedure to work as intended one would have to listen via audio only devices to prevent the visual stimulation from creating this conflict,
2. Discuss the connection of the spiritual wellness to mental and physical wellness. Explain how the connection is manifested in your personal life.
In order to get spiritual wellness or to even get close to spiritual wellness, you must first get the mind calmed and cleared of all reactivity to reduce the stimulation of psychosomatic illnesses and their effects upon the mind, body and spirit. Once the mind is calmed and cleared of reactivity, the mind can then be expanded into a deeper sense of intelligence and intellect. The body can then follow a healthy regiment to maintain higher levels of fitness which helps to keep the mental fitness stimulated and in line with a balance to create health, wellness and happiness.
I have been attempting to create this within my own life to keep my health issues in check and manageable. I first began to get my reactive mind into control and reducing its effects upon me with Dianetics Auditing. By reducing the reactive mind, I reduced the stimulation of old engrams (and moments of greater or lesser "unconsciousness" on the part of the analytical mind which permits the reactive mind to record; the total content of that moment with all percepts) contained within the engram bank (the storage place in the body where engrams with all their percepts, are recorded and retained and from which engrams act upon the analytical mind and the body creating psychosomatic ills (any physical disorders/ills which are generated by the body itself or made worse by the body itself). After the start of my Deactivation of engrams I was able to reduce the affects of asthma which I was diagnosed with in 2002. I even had a physician attempt to induce an asthma attack chemically in the pulmonary lab and was unsuccessful. I also had been inflicted with migraines that were so bad I had to give myself injections of Imitrex injections (3 or more a week where I was so sound sensitive I could not stand for someone to walk on the carpet in the same room with me/the static electricity the feet create on the carpet would be too intense). I had a Dianetics Auditor to put me in session and contacted a near death experience at birth where the umbilical cord was wrapped around my neck 3 times and my mother struggled for 16 1/2 hours of hard labor to have me vaginally. They did not have ultrasound or fetal monitors back then. Whenever a similar set of circumstances occurred in the present time which were similar to the circumstances that occurred at the time of my birth, a migraine would happen. Once I contacted the engram initiated at my birthing and reduced its effects upon me, reducing the reactive mind, I then have not had anymore migraines, not even one. I have been asthma-free for 5 years and migraine-free for 2 years now.
My primary care physician who was convinced that I still needed to continue with my asthma medications said that asthma was a condition which could never be cured and wanted to know how I did it. I mentioned that I was a Scientologist, had gotten my reactive mind reduced and that was what was causing the asthma. He asked me if that stuff worked and I gave him my copy of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health by L. Ron Hubbard and gave it to him to read. I told him that he was now a witness to someone who was "cured" of asthma.
I am not quite at the place I want to be but I am on my way to reaching my own level of health, wellness and happiness. One day I will be there and enjoy every moment of life there after.
References
Dasher, Elliott S, The Path to Human Flourishing, Contemplative Practices: An Audio Companion to "Integral Health" [CD](2006), Basic Health Publications, Inc., Laguna Beach, CA.
Hubbard, L. Ron, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, (1950, 2007),Bridge Publications, Inc., Los Angeles, CA.
I listened to both tracks of The Path to Human Flourishing, Contemplative Practices: An Audio Companion to Integral Health by Elliott S. Dacher, M. D. Track 2: Loving Kindness Practice and Track 3: Subtle Mind Practice on my DVD/CD player and my TV. I discovered that Track 3 was messed up so I downloaded the Track on the Doc Sharing onto my laptop. I discovered that the Track had a visual display which I found to be very distracting while I was following the exercise. I then placed the CD into my laptop and discovered that all the tracks had similar visual displays on each Track which I again found to be very distracting and in conflict with the audio tracks for each practice. I found the visual displays of each track to be stimulating and the audio tracks to be very calming which created a mental confusion. In order to get this procedure to work as intended one would have to listen via audio only devices to prevent the visual stimulation from creating this conflict,
2. Discuss the connection of the spiritual wellness to mental and physical wellness. Explain how the connection is manifested in your personal life.
In order to get spiritual wellness or to even get close to spiritual wellness, you must first get the mind calmed and cleared of all reactivity to reduce the stimulation of psychosomatic illnesses and their effects upon the mind, body and spirit. Once the mind is calmed and cleared of reactivity, the mind can then be expanded into a deeper sense of intelligence and intellect. The body can then follow a healthy regiment to maintain higher levels of fitness which helps to keep the mental fitness stimulated and in line with a balance to create health, wellness and happiness.
I have been attempting to create this within my own life to keep my health issues in check and manageable. I first began to get my reactive mind into control and reducing its effects upon me with Dianetics Auditing. By reducing the reactive mind, I reduced the stimulation of old engrams (and moments of greater or lesser "unconsciousness" on the part of the analytical mind which permits the reactive mind to record; the total content of that moment with all percepts) contained within the engram bank (the storage place in the body where engrams with all their percepts, are recorded and retained and from which engrams act upon the analytical mind and the body creating psychosomatic ills (any physical disorders/ills which are generated by the body itself or made worse by the body itself). After the start of my Deactivation of engrams I was able to reduce the affects of asthma which I was diagnosed with in 2002. I even had a physician attempt to induce an asthma attack chemically in the pulmonary lab and was unsuccessful. I also had been inflicted with migraines that were so bad I had to give myself injections of Imitrex injections (3 or more a week where I was so sound sensitive I could not stand for someone to walk on the carpet in the same room with me/the static electricity the feet create on the carpet would be too intense). I had a Dianetics Auditor to put me in session and contacted a near death experience at birth where the umbilical cord was wrapped around my neck 3 times and my mother struggled for 16 1/2 hours of hard labor to have me vaginally. They did not have ultrasound or fetal monitors back then. Whenever a similar set of circumstances occurred in the present time which were similar to the circumstances that occurred at the time of my birth, a migraine would happen. Once I contacted the engram initiated at my birthing and reduced its effects upon me, reducing the reactive mind, I then have not had anymore migraines, not even one. I have been asthma-free for 5 years and migraine-free for 2 years now.
My primary care physician who was convinced that I still needed to continue with my asthma medications said that asthma was a condition which could never be cured and wanted to know how I did it. I mentioned that I was a Scientologist, had gotten my reactive mind reduced and that was what was causing the asthma. He asked me if that stuff worked and I gave him my copy of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health by L. Ron Hubbard and gave it to him to read. I told him that he was now a witness to someone who was "cured" of asthma.
I am not quite at the place I want to be but I am on my way to reaching my own level of health, wellness and happiness. One day I will be there and enjoy every moment of life there after.
References
Dasher, Elliott S, The Path to Human Flourishing, Contemplative Practices: An Audio Companion to "Integral Health" [CD](2006), Basic Health Publications, Inc., Laguna Beach, CA.
Hubbard, L. Ron, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, (1950, 2007),Bridge Publications, Inc., Los Angeles, CA.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Unit 4---Loving Kindness Exercise
My Experience after listening to the Loving Kindness CD was an experience and practice that I had first experienced while I was a resident at a homeless shelter after first moving to Washington, DC. Throughout my life I have experienced different aspects of the human experience. While at the shelter I had to get some way of relaxing and some way of escaping the the chaos and negativity of my surroundings. I was working as a private duty nurse caring for a patient who was a former internal medicine physician who was suffering from advanced stages of Parkinson's disease. After ending my shift I would return to the shelter and immediately get bombarded by the reactivity, negativity and other crap from the other residents of the shelter. I was in sore need of a means to relax and clear my mind to prevent my absorption of their expereinces. I purchased a relaxation CD and a CD player and began my journey into Lisa's world of relaxation and the Human Loving Kindness experience.
I would lay on my bunk bed, put on my headphones, start my CD and enter into my own world. I would follow the CD instructions and slowly feel the tension and worries of the day vanish from my awareness.
The Dacher CD is just another approach to the same outcome of finding inner loving kindness and training yourself to administer loving kindness to those epople in your direct contact. I found this tract to be beneficial, however somewhat difficult to accomplish with my roommate around. He tends to be the needy type and my direct attention needs to directed towards him and what he is doing at the time. If one can shut yourself off from the outside world for a few moments, it is reather helpful.
I would definitely recommend it to others, mainlky me clients because it provides the user with a guide to direct the user to the realm or relaxation by giving them a focal point and a path to reach relaxation.
The concept of "Mental Workout" is comprised of the aspects of clearing the mind of the "clutter", reducing stress, develop better sleep patterns, overcoming fears and phobias and increasing overall happiness. Reaseach indictes that by giving yourself a menatal workout helps to keep the brain stimulated and active. By implementing a regular mental finess workout program it can help to clear the negativity to make more room for positive aspacts and allows for more intellectual development.
References
Dacher, Elliott S., M. D., (CD) The Path to Human Flourishing, Contemplative Practices: An Audio Companion to Integral Health
Maximize the Cognative Value of Your Mental Workout/Sharpbrains, retrieved December 5, 2010 from http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2008/02/21/maximize-the...
Brain Exercises-Mental Exercises-Mental Exercise, retrieved December 5, 2010 from http://www.mental-workout.com/legal.php
Mental Workout--Anytime, Anywhere,retrieved December 5, 2010 from http://www.mentalworkout.com/
Time Puzzles: Brain Calisthenics,retrieved December 5, 2010 from http://www.time.com/time/covers/20060116/puzzles
I would lay on my bunk bed, put on my headphones, start my CD and enter into my own world. I would follow the CD instructions and slowly feel the tension and worries of the day vanish from my awareness.
The Dacher CD is just another approach to the same outcome of finding inner loving kindness and training yourself to administer loving kindness to those epople in your direct contact. I found this tract to be beneficial, however somewhat difficult to accomplish with my roommate around. He tends to be the needy type and my direct attention needs to directed towards him and what he is doing at the time. If one can shut yourself off from the outside world for a few moments, it is reather helpful.
I would definitely recommend it to others, mainlky me clients because it provides the user with a guide to direct the user to the realm or relaxation by giving them a focal point and a path to reach relaxation.
The concept of "Mental Workout" is comprised of the aspects of clearing the mind of the "clutter", reducing stress, develop better sleep patterns, overcoming fears and phobias and increasing overall happiness. Reaseach indictes that by giving yourself a menatal workout helps to keep the brain stimulated and active. By implementing a regular mental finess workout program it can help to clear the negativity to make more room for positive aspacts and allows for more intellectual development.
References
Dacher, Elliott S., M. D., (CD) The Path to Human Flourishing, Contemplative Practices: An Audio Companion to Integral Health
Maximize the Cognative Value of Your Mental Workout/Sharpbrains, retrieved December 5, 2010 from http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2008/02/21/maximize-the...
Brain Exercises-Mental Exercises-Mental Exercise, retrieved December 5, 2010 from http://www.mental-workout.com/legal.php
Mental Workout--Anytime, Anywhere,retrieved December 5, 2010 from http://www.mentalworkout.com/
Time Puzzles: Brain Calisthenics,retrieved December 5, 2010 from http://www.time.com/time/covers/20060116/puzzles
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
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