Unit 4

I really enjoyed Practice 1: Loving-Kindness. That being said I did not care for the mp3 version. I followed the book and did this meditation on my own. The person that I created in the beginning was a combination of a few people that I hold near and dear to me. I guess for my own ethics I do not want to take a part of someone inside of me without their permission first. So I asked the ones that I envisioned and then used a combination of all of them. I like that you have to love yourself first and know how that feels to you. For me starting with loving yourself is the most important. If you cannot love yourself, how are you going to love another? There was one part of this meditation that I would change. I do not like taking in something negative, even if we were to take it in and let it dissolve. We are still taking in a negative. I would rather picture this person and envision them in white light and love them that way. Once again I would be careful with my ethics as I would be performing a healing on this person at this point. I would want to make sure that I have the person permission to help with their struggles. If I am just sending love out into the universe, I am okay with this mediation. Once I start trying to change or help someone then I would need their permission for the healing that I would be sending them.



The mental workout is a time set aside each day for us to practice getting to know ourselves and how we truly feel. I think there are a lot of people in our lives that like to tell us what we should do or how we should feel about a situation. If we can take ourselves out of the situation and sit with our self, I think we will come up with the correct answer to all of our question and issues. This mental workout is something that needs practice and time set aside each day for this to be helpful and for us to understand the difference between self-talk and the information from our true self. This practice shows that we will change our environment so we are not in the self-center of the universe and we can open our self to love and acceptance of others.

Unit 3

My physical well-being I would rate a 6.  I think there is always room for improvement and there are parts of my physical body that I would like to tone up, more than what they are.  My spiritual well-being I would also rate a 6.  There are days, nights, and weeks that I forget to take care of this part of my life.  I do know that my guides and angels are taking care of me and helping me to stay on path.  My psychological I would rate a 5.  Right now this is a stressful time.

My physical goal is to get in some more strength training.  Right now I work out with a trainer on day a week and the other days I run between 3-7 miles per day.  I usually have two days a week that I take off, and one of those is to work a 2nd job.
My spiritual goal is to spend some time with my guides and angels right before I go to bed.  I also like to do a body check in and thank each part of my body for the work it did that day.
My psychological goal is to try and not stress too much about the aspects of my life that I cannot control right now.  If I take everything one step at a time it will all work itself out.

My activites for achieving my goals right now would be to make sure that I spend some time each night doing my meditation before bed.  Doing this will also help my psychological.  My physical goal would be to watch more of what I am eating to make sure that I am balancing out my activities.

I do not know what it was about the meditation this week.  I just couldn't get it done fast enough.  The man's voice really bugged me this week.  I did like how he took us through the charka system.  To be honest I skipped through some of it and didn't listen to the whole thing.  It just took too long tonight at this time.  I'll do my meditation later.

Angie

The relaxation exercise was interesting.  Due to the time of night I was starting to relax.  The background music was nice, the guide had a soothing voice, and I was almost there until he started to describe what the blood functions my body was taking.  That took me right out of relaxation.  When I relax I do not want to think about my body functions.

Welcome!

This was a fun process to try out.  It will be interesting getting to know how this works and learning from everyone else.