Friday, February 25, 2011

Unit 8

Hi everyone,

 I have learn a lot about this unit and I would have to choose loving-kindness and meditation that I found its beneficial to my life.

 Loving kindness to me focused on many challenges of my life where I learned to embrace myself as well as other.  For this exercise, it taught me how to show compassion, equal care,  and unconventional love. It took me a while to focus on what I believed it to be beneficial as I listened to Dacher CD audio for a couple of time. Also, loving kindness have brought me close to  my spiritual than in the previous. I have been practicing this concept of loving-kindness by perform good deeds to other than my immediate circle  of friends.

Secondly, I really like the "rainbow mediation".  Each color of the spectrum   within the rainbows would tell me its functions to the human body. Also, it  showed me the different level of meridians within the human that often it promoted happiness by many culture beliefs.  I did not know that the organs would have represented the different change of colors at the beginning of the exercise until I listened for a couple of times. In this way, it brought my mental and psychological closer where I tended to be less anger. I have tried  to practice mediation at least 30 minutes for three time per days in order to help controlling my emotional. In this way, it helped with my blood pressure under control so, that I do not have to take medication.

Friday, February 18, 2011

Unit 7 Aesclepius Practice

 Hello everyone,


  As I listening to Dacher CD on the Aseclepius  practice that focused on the "subtle mind" of transform a person into my own. It brought me many memories of my grandmother who passed  away; since, I was a child. For this exercise, I heard my grandmother told  me  what to do by spreading words of  loving-kindness, compassion, and wisdom that I must overcome as I closed my eyes . As each breath that I took. I could see a beam of light touch my head and entered my body with the kindly wisdom of my grandmother telling to love one another. I noticed that that "bathe" of energy of warm light entered my body taught me to be kind and gentle to all living things on earth. Unfortunately, I have a loving wife and a 4 years ago son that I cherished both of them for the rest of my life. Thus, this exercise really really had help me of thinking about other than myself.

The statement on Dacher "one cannot lead another where one has not gone him or herself". It referred that the journey for the health care professional must set for example for the patient of feeling and thought that they are suffering while in the hand of the care-giver. To me it may suggest that we must look deeper into our soul about ourselves.  I needed to get in touch my spiritual that I struggled with its daily in order for me to achieve happiness and wholeness integral health.

 Reference:
Schlitz,M., Amorok, T., and Micozzi, M. (2005). Consciousness & healing.
St. Louis, Missouri: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone.

Friday, February 11, 2011

Unit 6 blog

 Hello everyone,

 I really like this exercise assessment on mediation where I learned to touch  my inner thought and feeling  about myself. For this weekend, I must express my devotion to my wife that  I really care about her for being  with  me through good and bad  times. At first,  I must touch my unconditional love for her by showing that I really care for her. As I closed my eyes, I noticed that  I must learn to control my emotional  when I talked to my wife so, that I do not  hurt her feelings. In the other hand, I loved the chanting of the breathing of mediation through my mind and body spirit. 

The area where I needed the most to grow would be with  intentional and psychospiritual where I must overcome these two barriers within my life. Often, I do not hold my life experienced truly to myself where I tended to drift away from reality. I needed to focus on a single event. Therefore, I had  to experience more of anxiety than I should  be at this moment. Also, I must connect with spiritual more than I should be. In this way, I would not be mad at the world or at myself. 

Friday, February 4, 2011

Unit 5

 Hello everyone,

    I would have to say that this exercise was similar to the one that I have done before. I really like this exercise that I can relate to my personal life experiences. Loving-kindness may be defined to me as individual "grasp " of what he or she believed of opening one's heart to others by doing good deeds beyond  your circle of friends. It could be done by embracing strangers such as a hug that one would want.  Subtle mind tended to focus on breathing techniques that related to the body, mind and spirit for integral health.  One of the technique of breathing that help me calm down would be through  meditation.

  I learned from my master in the martial art. This art was known as Hapikdo (harmony and happiness). It  was original in Korea where the monk would learn to defense themselves against  outsider attackers. It involved several steps of breathing techniques. The first technique would  involve using "Qi" of the body by individual of conquest his or her fear.  This might be known as "fight to flight" response. He told me that individual needed to expand the body as well as breathing through the nostril so, that the body and mind could be interconnected with each other just as heaven and earth.  This might be known as "Ying and Yang". The second step of breathing  would involve  concentration such as happy events. I would like to think of water fall pouring down  on my entire body and experience the sensation of  feeling happy without worry about outside involvements. The last step of breathing would involve the five elements such  as fire, water, earth, metal, and wood in mediation By balancing these five element than one would feel happy as well in love . I have tried to relax my mind and body through mediation  for at least 3 times per day on focus my mind-body and spirit. 

References:
 Dacher, E. (2006). Integral The Path to Human Flourishing Health.
 Laguna Beach, CA: Basic Health Publications Inc.

Micozzi, M. (2011). Complementary and Alternative Medicine 4th Edition.
St.Louis, Missouri: Saunders Elservier.