Part 2 - UNIT 4 The Mind-Body-Spirit Paradigm

Subject: Mental Workout

The concept of mental workout is a daily exercise to evolve the person’s psychospiritual life and to have a clear understanding of the contemplative practice to develop a progress of expanding the person’s consciousness and the healing capacity.

There are two types of contemplative practices, loving-kindness and subtle mind. The Loving-kindness is a practices to teach a person how to open their hearts to others without self centeredness, and priming the person’s mind for further development. The subtle mind is a practice to open the person mind to reveal the wisdom that is an essential element to heal the source and drive human flourishing.

The benefits of mental workout to have a complete control over your mind and learn how to stabilize the person well-being, maintain in a calm-abiding state of consciousness and unity consciousness. The mental workout develops the mind to become mature with wisdom and to allow the person to be peaceful, compassion, and happiness as a whole person.

The two practices, subtle mind and loving-kindness, helps to “tame and train the mind, open the heart, expand consciousness, and develop the progress of psychospiritual flourishing which introduce integral health to the person who has learn through this workout to express more loving-kindness to others and the wisdom to allow the person to make better decisions concerning their health needs. (Dacher, 2006, pg 66-68)

UNIT 3 The Mind-Body Connection

1.    My reflection on my well-being can be rated as a 7 because I am not comfortable with my weight. When I turn 52 I started being more concern what I eat, how much I eat and what can I do to improve my eating habits. My physical well-being teaches me I need to exercises more to maintain my physical structure of my body. When I have the time to exercise I feel better and I have more physical energy. My spiritual well-being allows me to have those moments with my God who I believe as my Savior. When I spend time praying to God. This allows me to have my personal conversation with him to help me to solve my problems and to clear my mind from the outside world. The daily reading of God’s words allow me to connect with my spiritual needs which keeps me balance and focus on God who keeps my mind regulated to stay focus without confusion.

2.   My Goals to improve my physical needs to the following:

Ø change my eating habits

Ø obtain a physical trainer

Ø enter into physical fitness program

Ø enter in a dancing program

My goals to improve the psychology process to improve my mental capacity.

Ø employ these mind exercises I am learning within this class. I find them very helpful

to me.

Ø obtain medication tape

My goals to improve my spiritual needs:

Ø maintain my daily prayer session

Ø do more bible studies

Ø maintain peace in my life

3.  The activities I like to put into my goal plans:

Ø go fishing

Ø go camping in a camper

Ø walks in the park with my husband

Ø go dancing

Ø enjoy a movie once a week

Ø take up piano lesson for fun

Ø take up swimming lesson

3a  The exercises I like to put into my goal plans:

Ø go dancing

Ø enter a dance exercise class

Ø enter yoga classes

Ø do daily stretches

Ø go bicycle riding on weekends

4.  The personal experience I had listening to “The Crime of the Century” relaxation exercise was wonder. I totally became so relax as I started the breathing pattern exercise. I could feel my body melting into the chair while the gentleman was talking. I had a hard time trying to visualize the images he wanted me to see while my eyes were closed. I could not stay focus and the more I try to focus on what he want me to visualize the more I became frustrated and tense. So I stop trying to visualize what he wanted me to see and just listen to the calmness of his voice and the frustration went away. When the recording finish I woke up refresh with a lot of energy I felt like I slept for 8 hours.