My first choice and favorite exercise was the Journey on Relaxation exercise. The power of suggestion I believe is the most powerful in helping one reach a relaxed level of consciousness. Breathing in long deep lung inhalation and long exhalation does help in reaching a level of relaxation. Being aware of other body functions such as blood flowing and heart beat rhythms and the suggestions of such functions one can be learn to control blood pressure and heart beat. I believe audio relaxation materials should be used to help one reach this level of relaxation and we should use it when we feel stressed as well as in our daily activities.
Learning to be able to control breathing, heart beat and other function can keep disease at bay and is an important piece if integral medicine.
This Journey to Relaxation audio is remarkable and my experience was remarkable. I was very relaxed once I finished but yet, energized! The calming of the narrator, the music in the background with steps taken to reach a very relaxed state was slow as was the breathing technique. All the techniques were effective and of course the power of suggestion most powerful!
Twenty, thirty or even an hour of time daily can be implemented in my personal life to foster “mental fitness” and worth every minute to foster great mental and physical health.
My second choice was Meeting Aesclepius with the use of a wise guide, visualization. I know several wise guides living and passed that I respect and cherish the work they have done and or doing in present day time. By implementing breathing techniques my awareness and focus on this wise person ended up sitting in front of me and sharing her knowledge, my wise guide was Hazel Parcells in this particular exercise. She shared and taught her remarkable finds and studies with many others and in her class she would end with, “now that I have shared with you, you share with others”. This shows her unselfish care or in other words her universal care for others.
My intention is to teaching and sharing knowledge to help others find healing, health and wholeness.
Teaching breathing techniques seem to work the best for me even though I like the guided imagery meditations as well, so using both techniques within my field of medicine will benefit all involved is my hope. Practicing the grace of healing or integral health to help patients will be the focus of my teaching by implementing psychological and spiritual growth in my own life and in in others I touch. Meditation, Tai Chi, Yoga, Breathing techniques, Conscious awareness and Prayer will be my suggestions for my patients interested in taking control of their own psychological and spiritual growth and development. Focusing on the important things in life such as mental flourishing and making it a part of everyday practice will most definitely help in this development.
Taking twenty, thirty, forty-five or sixty minutes a day clear the mind of clutter will awaken many of our inner senses and in return keep disease and illness at bay. Techniques such as this would be self-cultivated and self-generated evolutionary growth in total mind, body and spirit wellness.
Dacher, E. (2006). Integral health: The path to human flourishing. Laguna Beach, CA: Basic Health Publication, Inc.
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