Unit 4 - Loving-kindness

I love you all!!!! Haha, that is the immediate result of meditating the Practice 1, loving-kindness. I found it not hard at all to imagine the people, the loved one, the not so loved one, and then all. I like the thought of helping - hence my career choice of psychologist. I will practice this more often, this meditation. It actually suggests every day, well, I messed up already - didn't do it today...but maybe tonight. Anyway, I think the prior meditations, here and in my 'other' life have been helpful in preparing the ground for this meditation, as will this one prepare the ground for the next steps. It is so exciting!
I just want to add that I also get a different feedback from people....with the rainbow, which I still love, and this loving-kindness meditation I feel that people are almost drawn to my 'good vibrations'. I totally think it affects the people around me.

As to mental workout - even school medicine has accepted that mental workout is conducive to dementia or senile patients. This is only one way of working out the mind. Meditation and humanistic evaluations are mental workout as well. All expanding knowledge - on a worldly and on a spiritual level. The merits of these activities can be seen in better health, physical, better mood, psychological, and more connectedness with people and the universe, spiritual. I will be sooo healthy after this class! Wow!

Unit 3 Rainbow

Hi everybody, first off, this relaxation exercise was great for me. I knew about the colors of the chakras, the energy centers of the body, and their location, but it was good to hear those little affirmative sentences to go with them. I really felt good all the time through it. I started with a head ache which was gone by the end of the exercise. Amazing how that works! I find this to be a very holistic meditation. Starting with the grounding of oneself, then the being with the other world, being loved, love in return, vision for goals, and finally the connection with the outer self, the universe or one's spirituality. I loved it! It made me feel whole and strong. I think I will incorporate this meditation in my daily life...with a few changes.

Now to the rating exercise:
I would rate my physical well being with a 8, healthy, only my smoker's cough is not pretty anymore. Ergo my physical goal is to decrease my smoking or stop altogether, if I can. To keep up my physical health I will continue to practice Taekwondo.

My spiritual well being I would rate with an 8 as well, I have a good connection with my spiritual being and my goal is to deepen and widen it. As an exercise to do so I will meditate regularly.

My psychological wellbeing is rated with a 6; there is still a lot of stuff from the past that I have to work through. My goal here is to clear away my issues with my father...at least start it. This I will accomplish by focusing on it with my therapist.

All in all, I must say I find myself pretty healthy and happy. Only sometimes can my psychological side kick me in the stomach and then I have to work especially on my spirituality to counteract that. So, let's see how my goals and exercises work out this week!

Autogenic training

I am typing this with my hands still very heavy and warm! I have some experience with meditation but there was something new in this exercise. The man said that 80% of my blood would center at my core in a state of relaxation. Wow. I did not know this, but it made total sense. I could even feel it. My legs were light and almost not existant. Whereas my arms, after I had sent the blood flow from my core to the arms and hands, were heavy and almost timgeling. Unfortunately after that some other music started and destroyed the whole relaxation effect. Did anybody have the same experience? I had 5 minutes of warmth and beauty and then was dirupted by Rolling Stones, I think.

Today...

Today I sat on my porch at 5.30 am. Quiet. Then suddenly a bird woke up and tschirped a 'good morning' to me. How wonderful to wake up with such a sound!

Hello everybody

One day at a time is my motto - everything can be accomplished if you look at it from this perspective. Even the most difficult challenges become managable. So, good luck to you all!