Loving-Kindness

Close your eyes and for a minute or two rest into the natural ease of your mind and body, and repeat these phrases for 10 minutes.

May all individuals gain freedom from suffering.
May all individuals find sutained health, happiness, and wholeness.
May I assist all individuals I gaining freedom from suffering.
May I assist all individuals in finding health, happiness, and wholeness.

Doing this exercise reminded me a lot of the way God wants us to be in our everyday lives.  I pray that people are free from suffering, if we recieve the Lord in our lives we should gain happiness and wholeness, as a christian it is mt duty to help those in need.  Lets face it meditation is prayer to ask God to fix negative issues in our lives.

Loving Kindness

My experience with this was very beneficial.  In my class I was asked what is a mental workout?  I believe a mental workout can be many different things.  Me personally I achieve this by prayer, meditation and just taking a step back fro the chaos of the world and assessing the situations of my life.  This can be very beneficial because it can help with stress levels. 

My relfection of my own wellness

These questions were asked to me in a class I have in school.  Take the time and answer them and reflect on your own wellness as well.  Here are my answers to the questions.

1. Based on your reflections, and on a scale of 1 to 10 (ten being optimal well being), where do you rate your A-physical well being, B-spiritual well-being, C-psychological well-being? Why?

Physical- I am a 7.  I don't believe I am in bad shape but I know I can get in better physical shape.

Spiritual- I would say I am a 6 because usually I am pretty in tune with my self spiritually I have been drifting away and trying to regain the spiritual relationship I once had with God.

Psychological- I am an 8 because I have a great patience and I am pretty laid back.  I don't let a lot get to me and I am not stressed by a lot of things.

    2.  Develop a goal for yourself in each area (physical, spiritual, psychological).

My overall goal would be to take more time to work my self out physically and to spend more time in prayer and talking to God.

    3.What activities or exercise can you implement in your life to assist in moving toward each goal?

I am a youth leader at church so I have the opportunity to help both of my problem areas at once.  I love to play sports so I can play more with the kids while at the same time pull them off to the side and talk to them about there relationship with God and minister to them bringing my self closer to God.

    4.  Complete the relaxation exercise The Crime of the Century.  Describe your experience. (What it beneficial? Frustrating? etc.)

Relaxation exercises always help.  It gives me time to reflect an think about things that are on my mind.  It is a time when nothing else around me matters just me and my thoughts.  I always feel refreshed once I return to reality.

New to this!

Not sure what is going to come from this but just wanted to introduce myself and give a little back ground experience I have with relaxation exercise. 
First off I am David Lumb.  I am 28 years old and I am currently going to school looking to receive a degree in health and wellness.  Eventually I would like to be a physical therapist, working with injured athletes.  I am a certified personal trainer and have practiced for about two years.  My biggest success story would be that I helped a man than was 340 lbs loose 80 pounds and over come diabetes. 
Relaxation exercise can help mainly to relieve stress.  When I was in the Navy I would workout after a stress full day often!  This seemed to help me clear my mind and just let go of any problems or stressors in my life at that time.  This is a very healthy practice because of the fact that holding on to stress can be damaging to you mentally, spiritually, and physically.  If you don't have time to go to the gym, take a nice relaxing walk, or go for a bike ride even yoga would be ideal.  I don't know about you but here in Texas the weather is perfect to be outside, so take advantage of it!