It was hard for me to practice loving-kindness exercise, when it is already part of my personality. For those who treated me wrong; I don't hate them, I'm not mad at them, and I don't hold any grudges against them. My feeling towards them just stays still in silence. I have nothing to say to them as long as they leave me alone. It is pointless to hold any grudges, why waste your life on something not worth it. I did try the exercise, where you take in the bad things of a love one and release it. When doing this, I thought of my sisters. I wanted to be able to take those pain away from them but all I can do is be supportive towards any decisions that they make for themselves or their kids.
The concepts of mental workout is somewhat like physical exercise. Your body needs to stay in balance and fit. When you treat your body right, in return you gain energy, good health, and great figure. Like your brain, it needs to be feed with many positive thoughts, relax so it won't overload, and equilibrium. Exercising your mind through meditation is a good method. It is like organizing your thinking, that way you can better look at things and be clear with what you want to achieve in life.
Mental training can transform the mind by disturbing emotions that cause anger, hatred, fear, worry, confusion, and doubt while enhancing positive emotions such as patience, loving-kindness, openness, acceptance, and happiness. Even though these contemplative practice does not work on me; I would love to try them on others. Maybe beginning with my boyfriend, he can sure use them in his life. Is it even possible that some on these good deeds would rub off from me and pass on to him?
Monday, January 31, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Health and Wellness
I am aware that my physical well being (1) is unbalance. I'm constantly feeling tired that I have no motivation to getting things done as I have them prioritize. Then I would rush myself at the last minute getting my school work done. For as long as I remember, I never had breakfast or lunch, towards the end of the day I would stuff myself and go to sleep on a full stomach. Even though I hate doing it, I could not change my habit. Ever since my lay off, I have been sleeping late and would not wake up until late afternoon. I keep telling myself I need to loose this weight by summer but keep holding off on exercising. The more weight I gain the more miserable and irritated I become.
I have the thoughts of wanting to get involve with the community and helping others, but like always my spiritual well being (3) does not give me enough inspiration to make me take any actions upon accomplishing theses goals. I remember once when I was a teenager, I volunteered at a church for the foods on wheel charity. We would deliver hot meals to homeless people, even through rainy days. By doing that I had the sense of happiness and wholeness.
Through these chaotic time, I would give myself a 5 on psychological well being. From the last treatment I had back in 2007 for depression, I have not had any nervous breakdown yet and I'm refusing to take any medications. At some points my depression would get so bad that crazy thoughts would float around in my head. Yes, even though I'm aware of this I still refuse further treatment. Everything that I do now, I'm reflecting it upon my kids. After my divorce, they are all I got, so they are my medicine towards healing.
My goals so far for these aspects are as follow: slim down by summer and be more energetic; have more selective healthy foods; be more motivated and supportive; become a volunteer at one of the local hospital; and get involve with the community more often. To move toward these goals, I plan on joining the YMCA along with my children or start using the treadmill 3 times a day. I will change my eating and sleeping habits. I should implement some relaxation techniques and stress management methods to raise my self esteem higher and maintain positivity. I honestly believe I can achieve these goals once I get myself on the right track.
I have the thoughts of wanting to get involve with the community and helping others, but like always my spiritual well being (3) does not give me enough inspiration to make me take any actions upon accomplishing theses goals. I remember once when I was a teenager, I volunteered at a church for the foods on wheel charity. We would deliver hot meals to homeless people, even through rainy days. By doing that I had the sense of happiness and wholeness.
Through these chaotic time, I would give myself a 5 on psychological well being. From the last treatment I had back in 2007 for depression, I have not had any nervous breakdown yet and I'm refusing to take any medications. At some points my depression would get so bad that crazy thoughts would float around in my head. Yes, even though I'm aware of this I still refuse further treatment. Everything that I do now, I'm reflecting it upon my kids. After my divorce, they are all I got, so they are my medicine towards healing.
My goals so far for these aspects are as follow: slim down by summer and be more energetic; have more selective healthy foods; be more motivated and supportive; become a volunteer at one of the local hospital; and get involve with the community more often. To move toward these goals, I plan on joining the YMCA along with my children or start using the treadmill 3 times a day. I will change my eating and sleeping habits. I should implement some relaxation techniques and stress management methods to raise my self esteem higher and maintain positivity. I honestly believe I can achieve these goals once I get myself on the right track.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
www.hphetpriyavanh.blogspot.com
Welcome, to Day Dream 2011. I hope that everyone is doing well so far and ready to make any life changes in order to balance their mind, body, and spirit. My new year resolution were to make these changes as well. So far it has been an on and off duty because I could not get myself motivated enough to get the job done. I've noticed I have not been consuming any alcohol as much as I used to. I completely cut myself off from the energy drink (NOS) because it would give me rapid heart rate and I feel at time that I would forget to breathe. I'm not only trying to make changes for myself but for my 13 year old daughter, who had been diagnosed with diabetese type II. We have made progress to change our eating habitats by eating more healthier food and cut down on portion size. I know I have not been good at motivating her to exercise because I'm not doing it myself.
My experienced with the Journey On relaxation exercise was amazing. I actually love the light beat and found that the commanding voice to be affective in helping me through the process. I was amazed that I could feel the difference before and after the exercise. It did felt as if I was in a hypnotic state of mind. I was able to control my blood flow an felt how heavy my arms got and how I felt after coming out of the trans. It was a bit difficult because I had my daughter and niece inside the room polishing their nails, while I was doing the exercise. I was about to give up as the smell got to my nose but I carried on and successfully went through the whole process. Now all I need to do is implement this process more often.
Thanks for reading and looking forward to your comments.
My experienced with the Journey On relaxation exercise was amazing. I actually love the light beat and found that the commanding voice to be affective in helping me through the process. I was amazed that I could feel the difference before and after the exercise. It did felt as if I was in a hypnotic state of mind. I was able to control my blood flow an felt how heavy my arms got and how I felt after coming out of the trans. It was a bit difficult because I had my daughter and niece inside the room polishing their nails, while I was doing the exercise. I was about to give up as the smell got to my nose but I carried on and successfully went through the whole process. Now all I need to do is implement this process more often.
Thanks for reading and looking forward to your comments.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Creating Wellness HW420-02
Hello fellow classmates and professor,
This is my first time blogging, please respond if my blog is working correctly. I'm looking forward to this new adventurous term. I hope everyone are excited as well. My last term was so over whelm but I passed. It seem like, I faces new challenge with each term. I guess each professor has their own potential way to teach. So far two of my seminar classes are not graded, which is a huge relief that I can spend more time on my school project and family as well. Looking forward to chatting with you all.
This is my first time blogging, please respond if my blog is working correctly. I'm looking forward to this new adventurous term. I hope everyone are excited as well. My last term was so over whelm but I passed. It seem like, I faces new challenge with each term. I guess each professor has their own potential way to teach. So far two of my seminar classes are not graded, which is a huge relief that I can spend more time on my school project and family as well. Looking forward to chatting with you all.
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