Meeting Aesclepius

Good Evening Wellness Bloggers,

1.      Complete the Meeting Aesclepius mp3 (located in the Doc Sharing area). Describe your meditative practices for the week and discuss the experience. Explain how mindfulness or meditation has fostered an increase in your psychological or spiritual wellness. How can you continue to apply these practices in your life to foster greater health and wellness?

After listening to the Meeting Aesclepius meditative practice I must say that it was an epic fail for me this week.  Placing no blame on the session, it was ALL my own distraction.  My week was very difficult and physical illness drained much of my ability to focus.  The session did provide some insight on people that I find to have an abundance of wisdom and why I believe them to be wise.  While my thoughts of them were positive, I still could not “become in tuned enough to allow their wisdom and positive flow to become my own.

Secondly, I have come to the realization that listening to a meditative recorded voice is not something that I am comfortable with.  One on one contact would be better suited for the person that I am and the lifestyle that I have.  Psychological and spiritual wellness is a daily practice of mind, body and spirit.  It requires a determined heart and the ability to remove all distraction to become a healed, completely regenerated person.  What these meditative practices have made me aware of is that I am stressed out, unfocused and need a major overhaul of what are considered priorities in my life! 

The practices that I will foster in my life are some counseling, meditation that involves walks in parks and gardens where clean air can flow through my lungs.  Trips to my local beach where I can sit and listen to the waves and think of “nothingness”.  Remove unnecessary stresses and don’t take on the burdens of others but rather give them love and encouragement that can ease and comfort their situation.

2.      Describe the saying: "One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself" (p.477). How does this apply to the health and wellness professional? Do you have an obligation to your clients to be developing your health psychologically, physically, and spiritually? Why or why not? How can you implement psychological and spiritual growth in your personal life?

 

Providers of health care must work on their own spiritual evolution to actually experience what the model represents (p. 476) This simply means that those with your psychological, spiritual and physical health in mine should be able to relate and instruct you on your wholeness journey because they too have experienced and are experiences a transformation that involves a mindset focused on more than just western medicinal practices.   Investing in your overall health means choosing a health care provider that can counsel you with holistic approaches, cares about you as a person, understands your belief system and is more than just a doctor but a friend, confidant and healer.  He/She can be these things because they have walked the journey you are taking and want to walk it with you.  That should be the obligation your wellness professional should desire. 

 

Be blessed,

Desiree Stroder

References:

 

Dacher, E. (2006). Integral Health: The Path to Human Flourishing. Basic Health Publications, Inc.  Schlitz, M., Amorok, T., & Micozzi, M. S. (2005). Consciousness & healing: Integral approaches to mind-body medicine. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone