Hello to
all!
For those of us that are deep within the
Health and Wellness curriculum, do you remember getting a book for one of our
class called Fundamentals of
complementary and alternative medicine? Within the book, a simple yet
powerful statement taught me that … “Human culture is learned that also has
adaptive value” (Micozzi, 2011, p. 11).
This means so much to me. It
applies completely to a transformation that I must learn and adapt to doing
with contemplative practices, learning to manage and allow loving kindness to
happen within me and to give back to others.
The specifics of the coaching experience were
beneficial. Experiences as this I feel I
have been searching for. I do not think
the exercise was difficult, but again necessary to repeat as we just found out
that everything we do is learned right?
If there were a time or when it comes time when I cross a path of
someone in need of releasing anger, fear, greed, I would definitely suggest doing
this practice. It helped me. The practice has begun to move me forward to
a better place. I am in an environment
and planning to remove myself from it soon because it fosters negative thoughts
from our group (my work). In the
meantime, I have just discovered a mental workout that changes the way I can
deal with and approach what I come across everyday in the environment that I
have to go to everyday.
A mental workout is going to be learning to
manage a specific thought process that will let us be on the road to human
flourishing such as our newly introduced contemplative practice of loving
kindness. From learning to perform a
mental workout on a regular routine … “can have a positive impact on attention,
memory, perception, imagery, and a host of other mental functions” (Dacher,
2006, p. 63). To implement a mental
workout routine can be to discover a technique such as our loving kindness practice. Doing this can definitely foster
psychological health, it already has begun for me!
Thanks!
Ron
Resources
Dacher, E. S. (2006). Integral health: The
path to human flourishing. Laguna Beach, CA: Basic Health Publications Inc.
Micozzi, M. S. (2011). Fundamentals of
complementary and alternative medicine. St. Louis, MO: Saunders/Elsevier.
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