Unit 3 Relaxation Exercise

Hello fellow Health and Wellness enthusiast,

This post will be short and sweet and to the point.  I found this exercise frustrating, there was to much talking and imagery.  Once you have finally found that image, he moves on quickly, I did not find that helpful.  This relaxation exercise did not take me to that state of truly letting go, I was trying to keep up with all the images.  It made you think through your exercise, this caused a lack of focus and relaxation for me.  Did anyone else find themselves trying to keep up and not finding that center of peace?  Let me know.
Thanks, Emily

Unit 3 Blog Wellness Questions

Hello fellow health and wellness enthusiast,

For our unit three Blog we are asked to rate our physical, spiritual and psychological well-being and then develop goals and identify activities that will help us reach our goals.  It took me a little time to think about the three areas.  The first is physical well-being, I would like to rate myself high being a physical education teacher who works out with her students every day, but…  When it comes to exercise and working out I can rate myself high but when it comes to nutrition I’m not the best.  I never eat breakfast, and yes, I know that is the most important meal of the day.  I would have to make that a goal for myself-I would like to improve my nutrition intake by starting to eat breakfast every day.  So I would have to rate myself a 6 at this point in time (I’m also very sick at this point).  The next is spiritual well-being.  I look at my spirituality as my relationship with my Lord and Savior.  I pray every day and go to church on Sundays but a relationship is so much more than going to church.  A goal that I would like to work on is reading my Bible every day.  I have to say that that is an activity that I do every once in a while, this could strengthen my relationship with the Lord and keep our relationship close.  If I had to rate my spirituality, it would be an eight.  The third is psychological well-being.  Last semester when I took the mind and body divide class I learned about rational and emotional intelligence.  I have to say that many times I feel that my emotional intelligence gets the best of me.  I find that stress cause me to put rational aside and focus on the here and now.  I would like to focus more on preparation level two, skillful action.  I invite all of you to read my discussion question and you can see why that is my goal.  My need to use discipline and restraint when dealing with issues is a big goal of mine.  I need to think before I speak and learn the art of skillful action.  If I would have to rate myself at this time I would have to give myself a five.  We are all works in progress and when we think we have reached the top, there is always something new that we can learn.  We are ever changing just like this world is, is there ever an ultimate utopia, where we have reached the peak of knowledge?  I would like to know what you all think.  Stay tuned for my next post on the Relaxation exercise for this week.

Thanks, Emily

Relaxation

I wanted to take a moment to comment on the Autogenic Training/relaxation track that I had a chance to listen to earlier this evening.  Let me set the stage for all of you, so you better understand where I was emotionally before I did this.  Today was our big family Christmas party (35 people).  The dinner was a little after one and then after that was desert and then presents.  This is a very joyous time, the little children racing around taring into their presents, Christmas paper everywhere and smiles galore.  We did not get home till around 7:00 tonight, a very long day.  But-there was one thing missing in this day that brought so much joy, there was a little tears as well.  This was the first year that we as a family celebrated our Christmas party with out my Grandpa.  He passed away this last May.  My grandmother was very strong today, I only saw a few tears when she was given a gift that had Grandpa's picture and a beautiful poem.  She was not the only one who cried when reading this poem.  I tried to be strong, especially around my children, but when I got home and got the children to bed, it changed.  I opened a gift from my Aunt and Uncle that had a beautiful picture of my Grandpa and Grandmother, that broke me into tears, it hit me.  So after that I sat down to do my blog, and listen to my relaxation track.  I have to say it worked I became relaxed.  I could feel the blood move into my arms and hands-Autogenic Training.  I felt very relaxed but I did not feel that energy that he spoke of, he also said that I would not feel tired but feel relaxed.  I was relaxed but I felt very tired, even yawned several time.  Did it now completely work for me?  Did the day and the emotional feelings cause me not to get energized?  I may have been tired after it but I did feel relaxed and less tense.  Let me know what you are thinking.  Food for thought. 

Welcome fellow health enthusiasts

I would like to welcome you all to this blog.  Please bare with the creator because it is my first time developing a blog.  So you may find that I may hit some ups and downs, but through it all I will be trying my best to produce the best blog possible (for a novice).  I wanted to take this time to let you all know why I chose the name I did for this blog-Health & Wellness r4 Us.  Health and Wellness is for everyone and I also have children and you all know where children like to go to get toys.  I just spent a lot of money at Toys R Us just the weekend before I started my blogging process.  So I decided to put together the two most important things in my life -pursuing my degree in health and wellness and my children (seeing that smile on their faces when they get that perfect toy).  When you think about it, even adults when we set goals with our health and wellness, and achieve them, aren't we like children on Christmas day.  Just food for thought.