Concerning my wellness Professor,
scale 1-10, I would rate my ...
A- Physical Well being: as an 8
B - Spiritual Well-being: rated at a 5
C - Psychological Well-being rate is 8 as I have not arrived mentally, nor ever will. No one is brilliant until they die and God gives them a new body, then they will be. I do read and study for hours everyday so I am exercising my brain and adding knowledge to it.
If I were going to say how I would improve in the above areas:
Diet for the physical, as I have some weight to loose to get back down to my size 4.
Spiritual improvement: I don't read my guidebook, that is, my Bible often enough which I can condsider doing more in the evening and possibly after I wake up with my coffee in the morning. Nor do I spend enough time praying daily. There is room for improvement in this area and I can start praying more when I awake and ask for blessings for my day and send up some grateful words to my Maker.
Psychological improvement could be made by I don't know. I read so much, I don't know how much more I could read in a day. I guess I could play some mind games, chess or cross-word puzzles possibly. I will look for something to do with my mind to improve it.
As far as the Relaxation MP3 "Crime of the Century" relaxation site you gave us to listen to online in Seminar, it was great. It did do its' job by relaxing me.
A quick review:
The nice relaxing male voice asked me to get into a comfortable sitting or laying position, and as it was playing nice slow guitar music I think, asked me to focus all my attention on my breathing, taking deep belly breaths, exhale, relax. think of a rainbow. The Rainbow meditation is was I think. We had to imagine our body had a beam coming to it and has 7 rays coming on different spots on our body, with different colors and light beams coming into our body, one at a time, as we took deep breaths, focused and saw the light beam coming and the color, and said a few words. For example: It was kinda like this:[ (You can do it again while you read this if you want to try it): imagine the voice in your head]
This calm male voice with calm music background saying...imagine a bright red box on your lower back area, see a beam of red coming to it, take a deep breath, focus on the red box, now say "I feel grounded", take a breath deep again, say it again. Now imagine an orange circle area just below your belly, see a bright orange light beam coming to you there say " I feel confident" breath deep again, repeat phrase. You should feel very relaxed right now like I did.
Now imagine an oval on upper stomach area with a bright yellow beam coming to you there and say "I feel centered" take another deep breath and say it again. Now imagine an emerald green circle on your upper chest above your heart, you see a bright emerald green beam coming to you now say "I choose to love, I have the ability to share love, I choose love" then take a slow deep breath and say it again. Now imagine on your throat area, an acqua blue colored circle, say I feel that I have a meaningful purpose in my life" breath, repeat phrase, you should feel very relaxed right now like I did. Eyes closed. Imagining still in your head. Now imagine a circle on your forehead and in front of you ther are all the colors that look like beams of ligt projecting out in fron of you, there is an indigo blue circle on your forehead, say " I feel balanced" deep breath, say it again. You should feel very relaxed right now like I did. Do you see all the colors coming to your head like a rainbow? Finally, the crown of your head, it has a big circular window on top and a beam of violet light is shining on that spot and coming out and you say "I feel very connected to the universe, my family, my friends, and all the beams join together to feel connected. My body is calm and relaxed" Lock this phrase into your memory! You are calm, energized, and your body is in a state of homeostasis or balance. you should feel very relaxed right now like I did and full of energy, and at peace with yourself and others. :)
we move to the crown of your head
we move to your throat
I enjoyed reading your blog. I love how you were able to describe your levels of well being with honesty and humor. Humor is a wonderful thing and using it as a medication will help all of your levels of well being to rise. The relaxation exercise was a great experience and I thought it was a great suggestion that we recall the feeling as we are reading the blog. I tried it and it really worked so thank you for the moments of bliss. Enjoy your day and this great journey.
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ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your posts! I agree with Alison on the benefits of humor and play to our psychological well being! If my younger dog weren't such a clown I'd be in trouble!
I believe that God made us to laugh out loud and to smile! Our Pastor at church really uses humor in his sermons so that the congregation can feel the joy of hearing God's messages in the context of today. We also sing a lot! I'm not sure what hymns speak to you, but I like the ones that tell stories of joy like those sung by folk/blue grass/accoustical players...
I try to keep that spiritual channel open intentionally throughout the day. I sort of feel the love of something bigger than me by doing this. I hope it helps and makes some sort of sense! I have "pets gone wild" as I type this post---our heat wave is over here (for the Moment). It was in the 50's last night so the cats are playing on my desk!
Have a great week!
Yes, thanks Cindy, I agree that church music is important for my soul at church as well. Music and humor are two of my favorite relaxation therapy's besides riding my bike. When my schedule is way too busy for riding, I opt for listening to music, especially some of the new music given to us by our lovely professor. The Linkin Park soothing piano relaxing music and the beautiful pictures of horses, birds, water, and fireworks...really hit the spot and help calm me.
ReplyDeleteThe "Tom post" above was my mistake as I was talking in my husband Tom's account and did not realize I posted under his name. I didn't want to be confused with his ID. Although it was his email ID, and I hope I did not close him out permanently. He is not much of a computer person tho. Just wanted to clear that up, as I am have never deleted someones post on purpose because I did not like it.
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