My Experience with the Journey of Relaxation exercise

I found the journey of relaxation exercise to be very interesting. I could really feel my hands and arms become heavy and warm when the man put the suggestion into my head. When I went to move my arms and hands they did seem  to resist the movement which was an odd feeling. I also noticed even after doing the exercise to return the blood flow to the stomach my hands felt resistant to movement, but they moved to face my waste. This exercise helped me achieve a total body relaxation and sense of calm.

My Personal Wellness

1. Based on your reflections, and on a scale of 1 to 10 (ten being optimal wellbeing), where do you rate your A-physical well-being, B-spiritual well-being, C-psychological well-being? Why? I rate my physical well-being at a 6, because I am over weight. I rate my spiritual well-being at an 8, because I think I think I have a good ability to get in touch with my inner feelings whenever I see necessary. I rate my psychological well-being at a 7, because for the most part I am an even keeled person, but I do experience anxiety that consumes me from time to time.

                       

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

                My physical well-being goal is to get within the healthy weight range for my height b    exercising and eating healthy.

                 My spiritual well-being goal is to learn some new ways to find peace from within myself.

                 My psychological well-being goal is to find ways to avoid anxiety and /or deal with anxiety when it hits.

1. What activities or exercise can you implement in your life to assist in moving toward each goal?  I can do some sort of exercise on a daily basis and incorporate healthy foods into my diet. I can also do some research into meditation practices that could benefit me when I am stressed or have anxiety attack. 
2. Complete the relaxation exercise The Crime of the Century. To hear this exercise, click here. Describe your experience. (What it beneficial? Frustrating? etc.) I found this exercise to be beneficial once I started to relax. When I first started the audio my son had the TV on loud and he kept asking me questions, so I had to answer his questions, turn the volume down on the TV and start the audio over. Then I was able to concentrate the man's voice and what he was telling me to envision. I began to really feel relaxed with the yellow beam of light from my upper stomach.

Blog intro for HW420

Hello everyone!
My name is Jillian and I am looking forward to reading some of my fellow classmate's blogs! I am hoping that these blog assignments will be fun and interesting for us all! I have used this blog address for a previous course and it was fun and interesting then, and a bit intimidating as it was my first time every writing a blog.