The Wellness Professional

Dear Professor and Classmates,

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?

             

              I listened to Meeting Aesclepius and I was able to use a person from church as my focal point and when I listen I became extremely calm and absorbed in the moment. I have not been as consistent with my calming mind practice lessons but I can say that the practice I have done has given me the ability to calm my mind. I see things from a different perspective and calming my mind is something that I am constantly aware of. My intention is to determine a period, twice daily to listen to the practice lessons that have been taught so that I can continue my journey toward a calming mind and human flourishing.

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?

             

                This statement essentially means we cannot teach someone a practice that we do not participate in and believe in. So as health and wellness professionals we need to practice what we preach and our process of healing will have much more value if we are practicing the methods that we teach. An example of this would be using the mind calming methods we have learned in this course and use our positive experience to add value to the program. We have an obligation to our clients to provide the best methods possible for healing; these methods need to include all three aspects of mind, body, and spirit. The implementation of mind and spiritual growth can be acquired through two methods: develop an integral practice plan and the other is called life-as-practice. Life-as-practice requires more skill so it would be wise to begin with a consistent integral practice plan and as skills improve move on to the life-as-practice method (Dacher, 2006).

Ed Busche

References

Dacher, E. S. (2006). Integral Health: The Path to Human Flourishing. Laguna Beach, CA: Basic Health Publications, Inc.