Unit 6: Integral Exercise

Hi Everyone,

When I look at the source of meditation I do where are two different things I do. The first is when I sit in a room and clear my head and picture things that is going on or are going to happen. This truly puts my mind at ease. The next thing that clears my mind and body is working out. I have two different types of workouts I do. The first one is when I lift weights, and the next one is a cardio workout. I enjoy using the workout called “Insanity” this pushes your mind and body beyond your limit. As I look at both of these I am convinced that make my mind/body stronger enough at times I feel like I cannot go any further.

As I look at my integral assessment there are a few things I need to work on. Looking at my psychospiriyual quadrant I feel that my emotional life could use some improvement. There are times that I should be happy for things and I am not. I believe this comes from being from a large family. Believe or not growing up in a large family is not always fun.

I believe working on this area of my life will improve on my other parts of life. By improving on my emotion it will help make my biological, interpersonal, and worldly quadrant improve as well.

Everyone have a good week!

Craig

Subtle Mind

Doing this exercise I was much more relaxing than I was during the Loving Kindness exercise. When I was doing the Loving Kindness exercise I could not get into my mind or body into it I just bored. As for Subtle Mind exercise I enjoy the complete exercise. I felt that my body was relaxing with each breath that I took during this exercise and my I heart rate went down and my mind was calm so I could just concentrated on my breathing. I believe that my breathing calms every thought I had and made everything  relaxed.

I believe that spiritual wellness is very important to your overall health. It helps you to believe in things that can improve your beliefs, behaviors, and the way you think overall. Having an spiritual wellness that is strong it will help with your mental and physical wellness. This is why I believe that my mental and physical well is as strong as it is because of my spiritual wellness.

Loving Kindness

           

Listening to this I don’t think it was something that I would listen to again. I found it kind of boring and long. So it was not very beneficial for me to listen to. But there was one part I did enjoy and it made me think of calm things and that was the sound of the ocean. To me the ocean is a calm place to a little crazy and me at times, which I do like. Over all I just didn’t enjoy this. I don’t know if I would recommend this to other.

As for the mental workout I believe if you can visualizations on what going to happen will make your mind stronger. As a high school football coach I do this during the week by playing the game in my mind. I feel like it makes my mind stronger no matter what I am doing. The more you can do this type of mind training it will help out overall psychological health better.