Complete the "Meeting Asciepius" exercise on track #4 of the Dacher CD. Describe your meditative practice(s) 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?
My experience of the meditation practice this week was boring to me. I am not a person who meditates I like my mind being busy and ongoing, not to say I do not stop and try to be in the moment but I do it unconsciously, it is not something I think about all the time. I like be busy and at the end of my day I use that time before bed to relax and just zone out for a little while. Meditation is not really for me. I do not need to meditate to find myself or my spirituality because it makes me anxious and I do not like to feel that way. So I find other ways that help me become more mindful but i my own way. This practice has really helped me see that it is not for me and I like my busy, mixed up life and when I have time for it I relax when my body tells me its time to.
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?
This saying basically means that if you have not been through it or have done something yourself then you have no real right to tell someone else about an experience or tell someone else to do it if you have not. You must have traveled that road to tell someone else to travel down it to so you can tell them what to be aware of and what to take into consideration. As a health and wellness professional you must be able to tell your client the good and bad of the practice in which you are telling them to do. For instance, as a fitness professional I am not going to tell someone to do an exercise that I have not tried myself or know nothing about. And, about having obligation, I feel we do have an obligation to our clients to keeping developing ourselves psychologically, physically, and spiritually. We must find ways to better ourselves in all aspects of health so we can therefore be able to not just tell our clients what to do but to be able to share some personal experience. I can implement psychological and spiritual growth in my life by finding things that make me happy, and keep my mind going in a positive direction. I have to find what will help me stay balanced no matter what it is as long it does not put my life at risk or take me down a negative road. With a positive mind I will always try to make myself better than it was the year, month, week and even day before.
Hey Jameela,
ReplyDeleteI have to say that I really admire your honesty in response to the questions. You don't sugar coat your answers and you speak what is true for YOU and not others or what you think others want to hear. I believe that your approach is also critical in the development of human flourishing. The only thing I would like to suggest is that meditation doesn't have to be boring. I know you mentioned before that you really enjoy dancing. Dancing in itself can be meditation;it just has to be something that allows you to relax and enhance a sense of mindfulness, it doesn't have to be boring like sitting in a room listening to a pre-recorded exercise.
I like you take the concept of setting the example and living the example for your clients. I recently saw a 'personal trainer' at a gym and was like, Really? how are they going to show that person how to be fit when they obviously can not do it themselves?
Overall it sounds like you are heading in the right direction with your life. I hope that I am able to set the example for patients the way you do with your clients.