Prof and class, in completing the universal Loving-Kindness meditation and the Integral Assessment on myself I found that the meditation exercise had an effect on my mood and personification of my surroundings. I found in the assessment that the biological aspect needs the most attention. I feel that this is my greatest need for improvement because of the current schedule I process. I work too many hours and have no time to take care of myself and the health of my body. In the effort to help get back into shape I have started parking at the back of the lot at work and walking to the door instead of taking the shuttle. I have also decided to cut the sugary drinks and coffee from my routine and start drinking more juice and eating three balance meals a day. Thanks Sam

Unit 4 exercises

Prof and class, wow this has been a crazy week. Sorry for my tardiness, I have started a new undertaking this week called employment. It is much different then what I am used to; I am now currently working in the dietary department at my local County hospital. The goal is to change the institutional outlook of the department and innovate a new one that has the purpose of great tasting, nutritional food that enhances the experience of the hospital stay. Never less, it has been like literally pulling teeth. I have used the exercise that was discussed during the loving-kindness exercise and I can say at the beginning I thought it was not for real but as I look at the week, I feel that it was a great success. It had helped me stay calm in the face of hostility and fear. It has made me more excited and I believe a better person for it. The mental workout is used to make a person sharper, more focused and much more attentive. These workouts not only increase the capacity of the mind but also has been shown to improve the short and long term memory while decreasing the chances of developing a mental related disease like Alzheimer’s and dementia. I have been using a training method like memory matching but not, it involves words, phrases and or quotes that have meaning increase the mental capacity and are uplifting to me. Thanks Sam.

Unit three blog post

Prof and class, physical, psychological and spiritual wellbeing is very important to most people, especially if you are a holistic healthcare professional. There are many of us that wish we were in better shape and most of us wish we were in better shape in all of these categories. I myself see my spiritual wellbeing as my most important and my strongest. I rate it around a 7. Physical, maybe a 5 this is because I work a ton of hours and really want to work out but with family and work I really have no time in my day. Psychological wellbeing is also important and considering I have been in college classes for the last couple of year I would rate that at around a 6.  The goals that I have set for myself have been long standing in all of these categories, 1 to get into better shape by becoming more active and quitting smoking. 2, is to finish my BA in Nutritional Science; which I am getting real close too accomplishing. And 3, is to talk to god every day in my own way, this would include prayer and going to church on a weekly basis. To accomplish these goals I have first started parking at the back of the employee parking lot, which is around a quarter of a mile from the entrance to my job and walking this every day. Next would be to continue to take as many classes as I can per term to finish my degree and 3 is to find some time by my self without distractions to have a daily chat with the big man upstairs. As I followed along with the relaxation exercise for this week, I was lost and confused. It was too much for me to take on and I felt overwhelmed through most of it. I think for me there was to many aspects going on and too many instruction to follow, I mean seven different colors was a lot of different meditation techniques and I really was not as impressed as I had been with the first ones. Thanks Sam

Reflexion post

Therefore, I know I am a little late but after completing the relaxation exercise, it did feel weird to me. I guess this is because I have never done any type of meditation before this. I have experience a spiritual meditation through outlets like prayer but not like this. It was nice but again I had the overwhelming sensation that it was odd. Anyone else feel like this? Through the reading and during this I am interested in how much control our minds actually have over the rest of the body and am looking forward to learning much more about this. Thanks Sam.

Hello to all, welcome to my Creating Wellness blog. I am new to this idea of blogging, but am excited to see what kind of information can be shared and learned through this idea. I am not a very computer savy person but am willing to give anything a try. Looking forward to blogging with all of you. Thanks Sam