To move
forward and upward on the journey to integral health, I must develop my
mind. My thoughts, my feelings,
emotions, beliefs, learned behaviors and responses to all the same around me.
Because my mind, (our minds), have the power to lead us to sickness or to
health, to prosperity or poverty, to intelligence or ignorance, by what we
think and how we respond to those thoughts, so we must harness the power within
and use it to our advantage. To do that,
the exercises and practices throughout the course of “Creating Wellness, the
psychological and spiritual aspects of healing”, such as, Loving Kindness,
Subtle mind, visualization, meditation, etc...which assist in the development
of intentional thoughts, calm abiding, peaceful resolve are just the beginning
or just a few tools needed to get me started.
It is hard,
at this infantile stage of my journey to determine which of these tools thus
far have been the most beneficial to me because I am still assessing the areas
that I need the most help and growth in, yet I believe myself to need to work
on calming the mental chatter of my mind first.
My thoughts tend to be everywhere because I am a multi-tasking something
something and my mind continuously tries to keep up, direct, and move beyond
me so I need to learn how to just “stop” and be more intentional on what
thoughts, feelings, emotions, and responses to actually focus on and which to
just let go, so I can get to a place of calm, peace, tranquility, and harmony so
I can direct my intention, and health instead of being led by it. I
will use the guided exercise of Subtle mind for as long as I need to, until I learn how to
stop the mental chatter on my own, so I can move onto more advanced stages of
visualization and meditations which will develop my psychospiritual life and then
flourish body, mind, and spirit.
Although I
just personally like the concept of the “Loving-Kindness” exercises, breathing
health, happiness and wholeness into my loved ones and all of humanity through
my thoughts, I believe that is one that I can and do now throughout my day, so
I will continue, yet I do not feel that is an exercise I need to focus on to be
able to move forward.
I need more
meditation, intentional calming movements, thoughts, and to learn to be less
reactive so I will seek out different forms of meditation to get myself into a
place of inner peace and calm.
I am going
to have to force myself to make a plan of action and find assistance in helping
me be accountable to stick to it because I can see how, at this point, I let my
current life situations (work, family, school, personal time with friends, mate, etc.)
take me farther away from time I need to spend just being. Being quiet, being still, being without
thought, movement or response. I need to
learn how to do that. I need to learn
how to do....nothing, intentionally, with the intention of fostering my mental
fitness which in turn fosters integral health.
