Unit 8

Hello All -

The exercises that I really enjoyed is the Journey On exercise and the Meeting Asciepius. I feel as though these two exercises are very beneficial, at least beneficial to me.

The Journey On exercise really relaxed me and I felt calm with no worries. And as some of you know, the exercise really helped my 6 year old son out as well. Two minutes into the exercise and he was out. The Meeting Asciepius exercise was also great.

I'm thinking that I might find practices such as these two to help me through out the rest of my life. Luckily we have our books to help guide us and help us find resources. I have been going to Yoga and Pilates now for about a month. These two exercise are mixed with both and I have really enjoyed them.

Meeting Asciepius Exercsie

Hello All -

I finally got my CD, Yeahhhhh!!! Kind a late for it but ohwell.

I really really enjoyed this exercise. I felt saddness and happiness. My focal was my brother. He died 6 years ago at the age of 25, leaving behind a wife and three children. He was murdered but he had taken the wrong path his last year of his which lead him to his death.

At first I experienced sadness focusing on him because of how much I miss him. But then I felt happy remembering the good times, remembering how beautiful he was. I cried when we were to imagine a beam of light coming from his heart to mine. At the end I felt joy and happiness to know that I chose him to be my healer and my guide towards an integral health.

An exercise like this makes me want to continue with finding and having a human flourishing.

Happy Blogging

Loving Kindness Exercise

I really enjoyed this exercise. I'll be honest it was hard at first trying to have my eyes close and trying to remember all of the phrases. But luckily I got it down. What I like most about this exercise is that its love towards our world and everything in it. It seems like our world keeps getting uglier and uglier and there is so much hatred, so much violence towards each other. There is so much unhappiness in our world. I saw a news clip last night about this 6 month baby who would have been six years old this year but her parents raped her and abused her. They showed pictures of this little baby and she had bite marks, lacerations and bruises all over her body. On her last day of her life they threw her up to the ceiling and let her fall to the ground. This is the world that surrounds us that these parents would do this to their child who was 6 months. How sad.

The integral assessment was good as well. The area that I would like to focus more in my life right now is my pychospiritual. That is the area that I need the most. I want to start going back to church and having a feeling of a community. Carve some time out to read the bible. I need more spirituality in my life.

Well until next time, happy blogging.

The Subtle Mind Exercise

Hi Everyone -

I'm just a tad frustrated because I did not receive a cd of Dacher's practices. Hence the reason I did not blog for Unit 4. Unless I am missing something, I went to our webliography and I did see this units practice posted.

I also try reading the Subtle Mind in Dacher's book on page 75 and I'm sorry, it was very hard to concentrate on reading the practice and trying to focus on breathing and trying to watch my mind. I do greatly apologize that this blog is bascially worthless, I just hope that there are others who are experiencing what I am.

Happy Blogging, until next unit.