1. Complete the "Meeting Asciepius" exercise on track #4 of the Dacher CD. Describe your meditative practice(s) for the week and discuss the experience. Explain how mindfulness or meditation has fostered an increase in your psychological or spiritual wellness. How can you continue to apply these practices in your life to foster greater health and wellness?
This week has been hard to practice meditation. My mind is wondering in directions that I do not want it to go. I think that the devil is playing again and I'm finding it hard to fight against him. My husband was not feeling well yesterday and apparently I said something that hurt his feelings. In no way was i trying to hurt his feelings or make him feel that I did not care. In other circumstances my comment would not have upset him. But still today he has hostility towards me. I am trying to remain positive and meditate loving kindness to him. I explained that I was not trying to hurt him, but he still holds hositlity. I told him I don't know what else to do, now it's up to him to forgive and either move on from it or continue to hold on to it. All i can do now is to continue to practice loving kindness.
2. Describe the saying: "One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself” (P.477) How does this apply to the health and wellness professional? Do you have an obligation to your clients to be developing your health psychologically, physically, and spiritually? Why or why not? How can you implement psychological and spiritual growth in your personal life?
This comment is one that I have always found to be true. I hate it when a doctor tells a patient that he/she is overweight and needs to go on a diet and exercise. Then i see that same doctor in line (who is himself/herself overweight) ordering high fat, high carb food and looks like a heart attack waiting to happen. A patient is like a child, they follow by example. If you are not living the life of health, why should they? I plan to always live to the advice I give my patients in the future.
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Hi Tiffany,
ReplyDeleteIt's true "one cannot lead another where one has not gone himself" I remember when my grandmother was alive and I used to take her to her doctors I would get so mad when they would just tell my grandmother to lose weight and she will ne fine. What a load of BS. All I had to do is look at her doctor and could tell he wasn't well himself because of his weight. I think if he or they were balance with their own life and could truly show my grandmother the ways to be healthy maybe she would be alive now. I think you did a great job with this statement..
~Mika~
Tiffany,
ReplyDeleteI am sure that your husband will forgive you in time. There are times that my husband will say something that will hurt my feelings, usually I will take it out of context. It will take me a few hours or a few days to work out my feelings and why it upset me. You will do fine.
Tiffany,
ReplyDeleteI hope that your husband has forgiven you and that by practicing your loving kindness you have forgiven him for his hostility.
I have been inspired by the treatment the doctors have given my Mom over the years that is why I am starting an in-home consulting practice. Being with my Mom on doctors visits and them telling her to handle her stress better or to change her diet and start exercising yet not teaching her how to do these things or pointing her in the right direction is my inspiration. These same doctors see so many patients that there are times we were in the waiting room for over an hour, then when we finally got to see them they were tired, slumped over, not smiling or exhibiting any exuberance for the job they were doing. It was almost like a race to see how fast they could get through and on to the next patient.