HW420-Unit 7

I have to say that I enjoyed my meditation much more before I started these exercises and couldn’t put names to them. Now that I am a bit more aware I feel it being more work. I find myself trying to meet the different stages now, but in the past I always felt calm and at peace when I wasn’t so focused on these exercises. Overall I think the knowledge is good but it hasn’t fostered an increase in my psychological or spiritual wellness mostly because I practiced much of this beforehand only with different names. I much prefer Dr. Wayne Dyer and his practices, though the Integral Health book is easy to read and the process is easy to follow. I will continue with my meditations and possibly try to integrate what I have learned to assist me on my journey to wholeness.

“One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself.” 

I think the above statement means that if you yourself have not experienced what you are teaching you can’t really teach what needs to be taught. I think as a health and wellness professional we have an obligation to have experienced some or all levels of what we are teaching. I also think we do have an obligation to help our clients with developing their health psychology, physically and spiritually if the clients wants to learn. We should give them the information they need to learn. We should share not push our clients. 

I implement psychological and spiritual health daily through exercise, yoga, service and meditation.

Linda