Complete the following and post in your blog:
1.
Complete the Meeting Aesclepius mp3 (located
in the Doc Sharing area). Describe your meditative practices for the week and
discuss the experience. My meditative practices for the week are the same each
week. This week however, mediating seemed welcoming. I had a lot of unwanted
stress and the meditative experience was needed. I have tried to remind myself
to calm down when an issue presents itself. I am thinking more rationally,
instead of first becoming upset. I took the time to separate myself from the
issues and find a calming moment first, which helped stay focused. Explain how
mindfulness or meditation has fostered an increase in your psychological or
spiritual wellness. Meditation has fostered a spiritual wellness by helping me
listen. How can you continue to apply these practices in your life to foster
greater health and wellness? Even though I have spiritual time set aside daily,
taking on these techniques to teach myself to remain calm, helps alleviate
stress, so my health becomes better. There are fewer headaches and fewer
semi-panic attacks. I just learn to relax.
2.
Describe the saying: "One cannot lead
another where one has not gone himself" (p.477). This saying means that
just because you are familiar with the territory, does not mean a person knows
how to find their way around. This goes for personal issues as well. People
assume they have about a person or their issues, because they are familiar with
the person or the information given, but that doesn’t not mean they understand
what that person is going through or what the situation is, unless they
themselves have been through that very thing. How does this apply to the health
and wellness professional? It is more important for the health and wellness
professional to acknowledge this. Many professionals feel because they have the
knowledge of something, they understand the ends and outs. Not so. They become
almost robotic, and acting on that info alone can, really set back a patient
struggling to have someone shoe compassion. Do you have an obligation to your
clients to be developing your health psychologically, physically, and
spiritually? Why or why not? No. If they will grow in wisdom and become better
people, developing these things will be needed for them. How can you implement
psychological and spiritual growth in your personal life?
Gail Pinkard-Rudolph
mp3 (located
in the Doc Sharing area). Describe your meditative practices for the week and
discuss the experience. My meditative practices for the week are the same each
week. This week however, mediating seemed welcoming. I had a lot of unwanted
stress and the meditative experience was needed. I have tried to remind myself
to calm down when an issue presents itself. I am thinking more rationally,
instead of first becoming upset. I took the time to separate myself from the
issues and find a calming moment first, which helped stay focused. Explain how
mindfulness or meditation has fostered an increase in your psychological or
spiritual wellness. Meditation has fostered a spiritual wellness by helping me
listen. How can you continue to apply these practices in your life to foster
greater health and wellness? Even though I have spiritual time set aside daily,
taking on these techniques to teach myself to remain calm, helps alleviate
stress, so my health becomes better. There are fewer headaches and fewer
semi-panic attacks. I just learn to relax.
2.
Describe the saying: "One cannot lead
another where one has not gone himself" (p.477). This saying means that
just because you are familiar with the territory, does not mean a person knows
how to find their way around. This goes for personal issues as well. People
assume they have about a person or their issues, because they are familiar with
the person or the information given, but that doesn’t not mean they understand
what that person is going through or what the situation is, unless they
themselves have been through that very thing. How does this apply to the health
and wellness professional? It is more important for the health and wellness
professional to acknowledge this. Many professionals feel because they have the
knowledge of something, they understand the ends and outs. Not so. They become
almost robotic, and acting on that info alone can, really set back a patient
struggling to have someone shoe compassion. Do you have an obligation to your
clients to be developing your health psychologically, physically, and
spiritually? Why or why not? No. If they will grow in wisdom and become better
people, developing these things will be needed for them. How can you implement
psychological and spiritual growth in your personal life?
Gail Pinkard-Rudolph
Hello Gail,
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like we both really needed some extra meditation this week. Like you, I have also had a trying week and it has called for extra meditation and many reminders to just keep breathing. I am doing better now, much more relaxed, and while I can't wait for the karma smackdown to happen (and I know it will and I will have front row seats to it), I know not to let it get to me and to just toss it aside.
It's hard to get a person to believe you on a subject if you have not experienced or have knowledge of the subject in question. I've noticed that as healthcare professionals, clients are more likely to follow directions and listen to advice given if they know the professional has experience in this area. If a professional would tell me about the benefits of meditation or nutrition, why would I believe them if they have not done so themselves? Just because you have some knowledge on a subject does not mean you know all of the ins and outs.
Hi Gail!
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing your view this week on the topic at hand. I liked how you presented your opinion on the leadership piece, and I cannot agree with you more. It almost seems as though it goes against what we are learning in this course if one has not "walked the walk" before giving out the information to others. That is what we base Western medicine on; the science of "one size fits all".
It can be so hard to stay focused, and I can say that the exercises we have been instructed to do have helped tremendously. I have always had a hard time in sitting still, let alone quieting my mind. I read you and our classmate's experiences and have learned so much from what works for you all. I almost thought this blogging assignment was going to be dreadful; however, just opening up and reading what others go through and how similar yet different the experiences are assist me in my journey.
Warm Regards,
Jenn
I think learning to identify what it is that is upsetting us the most and learning how to separate ourselves from me in order to calm down is very important. I believe that this week’s meditation exercise was very beneficial for accomplishing this. Putting your mind focused on something else rather than whatever it is that is troubling us is a great way to relieve our minds from stress. I agree with your interpretation of that quote. Just because a person lives in a territory, it does not automatically make them an expert of that territory. A health and wellness professional cannot claim that they know exactly how to solve and deal with an issue because they’ve heard of it and read about it in the past. You can read all the instructions about how to perform a surgery, but without actual hands on experience you can’t really perform the surgery the correct way.
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