Unit 10-Reflection

  In unit 3 my assessment of myself was: Spiritually a 7
                                                            physically a 7
                                                            Mentally a 9
My expectations of what a Ten requires is what keeps those numbers where they are.  I've been working on those numbers for the past 35 yrs.  A ten to me is perfection.  Spiritually a ten would be to do miracles like Jesus.  Physically a ten would be to look like an olympian.  Mentally a ten would be to have the mental control of a Monk from Tibet.  Actually from my analyse I would say Mentally is a 7 also, there's still to much work to be done to rate it that high.
     All of the things that I listed as activities to reach the goals that I have set for myself in those three areas are things that I made part of my lifestyle when I was young.  I read everything I can get my hands on about; spiritual matters, health, consciousness, and anything that pertains to them.  When Deepak Chopra writes a new book, I order it and read it.  I pray in the Spirit everyday, throughout the day and put pressure on the Spirit to get things done that I have prayed about.  I can only do my part, then I have to get out of the way and let the Lord do the rest, but I found that my time frame on earth and the time frame in the Spirit world are not the same.  Waiting on a prayer to be answered is like waiting for a group of snails to get off the lawn so you don't step on them. 
     I found that if you are more demanding, and expecting, which activates your faith even more, things can happen a lot faster.  Sometimes it does depend on the events and their timing but when the bills are due and they need to be paid, the money needs to come Now!
I meditate daily, use positive affirmations, positive visualization, appreciation, work on walking in Love, use compassion and understanding with people, and I walk each day.
To reach my goals it will take my lifetime. 
     To summarize; When I started this course I had already been doing all that it teaches most of my life.  This actually made it harder for me throughout the course because it was taught with different names and it took me a little bit to translate Dacher's language to the language that i understood.  Then, I wasn't learning anything new, I was going over stuff that I had been practicing for years, so it got kind of boring.  It made it more difficult to do the lessons.  But, doing the course did force me to face the fact that I was using my powers for evil and not good.  The one area that I was allowing to become negative was with my husband.  So I promptly turned that around and started using my positive visualization, appreciation, and walking in Love to turn the beast around.  And it started working right away.  I now have to keep the ball rolling, which I will. 

Unit 9 Final Assignment

                                      Unit Nine Project-HW420-01-Donna Baker

I.                 Introduction: It is important for health and wellness professionals to develop psychologically, spiritually and physically because they are the “professional” that the patient is going to in order to get help with their troubles.  They need to have already gone before and proven the power of the remedy that they will be prescribing for the patient. 

The areas that I need to develop to achieve my goals

II.               Assessment: How do I assess my health in each domain?

Spiritually: eight out of ten.

Physically: eight out of ten.

Psychologically: eight out of ten.

III.            Goal development:

Spiritually:  My goal is to be able to do things that Jesus did here on earth.

I want to heal people, master matter by walking through walls and walking on water.  I want to know everything spiritually that Jesus knew. Then, I will rank myself as a ten.

Physically:  I want to have the body of a body-builder for the rest of my life.  I want to master everything in my physical body and have complete control of every cell.

Psychologically:  Mentally, I want to get to the point that I do not “react” negatively for any reason.  I want to have control of every thought that I have. 

IV.            Practices for personal health:

Spiritually: To stay spiritually strong, I pray in the Spirit or in tongues as it is also referenced.  I do it every day and night.  Any time there is anything to be concerned about; finances, schoolwork, my family, the animals, other people, I let God take care of it.  This strengthens my faith, uses my faith and puts pressure on God to get things done.  My spiritual being is who I really am.  My mind and body play second fiddle to my spirit.

Physically:  Because I have such a strong spiritual basis, my body responds accordingly.  I don’t crave sweets.  If anything my body craves vegetables.  My blood sugar is low, my blood pressure is low, my triglycerides and cholesterol are great, my arteries are clear.  This is because I have been doing what we have been taught in “Integral Health” my entire life.  I take walks, garden, mow the lawn, and drink a lot of water also.  And I love hotdogs, pizza, pepsi, coke, steak, and baked potatoes smothered in butter and sour cream (these are my soul foods).

Psychologically: To me, this is where meditation comes in.  It helps me in a spiritual sense also, but it does clear the mind.  I use positive affirmations and positive visualization to keep my mind strong and also to reach my goals. I read a lot of books; Non-fiction.  Such as; Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul by Deepak Chopra, Why God Won’t Go Away; Brain Science and the Biology of Belief by Andrew Newberg, M.D., and Creative Visualization by Melita Denning.  My goal is to raise my consciousness to a point where Jesus can reveal more to me of what He knows.   I have hundreds of books in this line that I have read over the years and at least eight Bibles of different translation.

V.              Commitment:

Assessing my progress is part of my lifestyle.  I write in journals regularly and look back over ones from a year ago to see if my beliefs and perspectives have changed about things.  I watch regularly to see how I feel about going to school, my family, how the house is ran, my attitudes toward my daughter and her father, toward all the animals, and toward the goals I have for the future.  Things change all the time and I need to know if I’m being guided in different directions then before.  I go by the belief system; “if you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans”.  By staying in contact with Him and His Spirit daily, I know that the majority of the emotions, attitudes, needs, and desires are going to be coming from Him, not my physical body, mind or my emotions.  It’s usually me who wants the hotdog and coke.  It’s His strength working through me that drives me to do my best in my classes, help the neighbors, be kind to my daughter and husband when they are cranky (it’s “my” emotions that comes through as irritable back at them).  I question what my attitudes all the time, it’s my lifestyle.  If I react in any way to any person or circumstance in any way but kind, thoughtful and loving, I question myself and ask “what’s wrong”, and then work on it.

Unit 8-Exercises and Practice Sessions

My favorite of the exercises, practices, visualizations and meditations are; The Loving Kindness practice found on page 69 of Integral Health, and Meeting Aesculapius MP3 from doc sharing.  Having forgiveness in your heart and spending time with your Higher Self, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Buddha, whatever it is in a persons life, to me have always been my two greatest powers for staying healthy.  Having an abundance of Love in your heart transfers to humans, nature, animals, character, principals, and everything in your life.  For me, spending time with Jesus; which is what I was doing when I did the visualization-meditation "Meeting Aesculapius", also strengthens this love.  

Using the Loving-Kindness practice helps to get rid of any aggressions I might be holding toward others.  It helps me appreciate the people around me and forgive them more quickly. 
Having these attributes have helped me to see out into public not as a bunch of people busy about their day, but individual worlds that are all happening all at the same time.  Not one any more important than the other, but just as important as the other.  It's like what Einstein's proved with the law of relativity.  Everything is relative to how each individual perceives it to be, and every person we see when we are out doing our own day, is perceiving their world, which for just a moment by-passes our world, in their very own way.  By being able to see this, it gives so much more value to other people.  We aren't just living our life her on earth, we are sharing space and time with millions of other humans, animals, and everything in nature, that are sharing space and time with us.  It gives you a whole new feeling of duty toward humanity, the earth, and the spirit world. 

Just like how the destruction that happened in Japan several months ago will eventually show up on the California coast, and other things that happen in other countries will eventually come to the United States, every thought; negative and positive will eventually become reality somewhere in the future.  By spending time with love and a Higher self, our thoughts will become more pure, so that our contributions will be positive and not negative.

Unit 7 Blog

Hi There,
I love the Meeting Aesclepius practice.  I translate it to what I have grown up with which is Jesus.  But this is a very natural meditation for me.
Mindfullness or meditation to me means Going Within.  I learned early not to wish that others would change but that I was better.  Going inside of oneself gives you a chance to appreciate your body, mind and spirit.  It gives you a chance to get to know yourself and Love yourself.

The statement: One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself to me is exactly what I live for.  Every experience I have had I believe has happened in order to be able to serve someone in the future better because of it.  I did not understand a person feeling suicidal because I had so much zeal for life.  So, God allowed me to be put into situations over a period of time so that I to became suicidal. I didn't go down easy though!  It took seventeen years of harsh physical, mental and emotional abuse, no friends except God, the failure of my precious businesses that I started from the ground up, filing bankrupcy three times, having several in laws die, one to suicide, and watching my poor son go through so much with his mentally ill father.  But it wasn't until my mother suddenly died without any warning, and having to live without her but still deal with the rest that made me buckle!

Looking back, it was one of the most important lessons I could have learned.  Understanding the pain and suffering of others is paramount to being able to help them.  The other thing that is important is to learn how to hear the word of God in situations.  If I am trying to help someone with something, I always ask God to guide me to what this person needs.  I allow Him to work through me.