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.