new revolations

I feel kind of lucky this week with my ability to focus through this week’s track.  Even though my lucky mind focus came through recuperating from being sick and having so much going on throughout the day that I was completely exhausted, I still felt relieved that my brain wasn’t in constant thinking mode.  It was kind of refreshing to have my body and mind drained, so I was not preoccupied by to do lists, homework tasks, appointments, etc.  I found myself calm-relaxed and ready for psychological exploration.  Mostly, because I didn’t have to move from my comfortable position and just got to relax without releasing any additional physical energy for the day. By having my guard down, I was able to really get into the meditation and let my mind flow were it needed.  I am really beginning to have revolutions through these meditative practices.  I have been focusing my energy this week on a combination of assessments and love-kindness practices.  It has been a little challenging at home with my son, so I have been evaluating myself as a person and a mother.  Through these assessments, I found deep perspective on how I can change and work on communication.  Instead of reacting abruptly, these meditations have allowed me to stop, listen, and hear what my son is saying and take it more seriously.  I am finding that my reactions are calm, focused, and I am able to choose how I want to react to him and certain situations.  After assessing situations and observing the emotions that come up, but not out, I begin the love and kindness practice.  I feel this helps me take a lighter approach to intense issues.  There are hardly any tense issues that come up within my family, but situations of high stress have been developing with a teenage boy.  I feel with love-kindness, I have been able to send feelings of love and kindness towards high stress issues which make them easier to deal with and change my feelings of the high stress issues altogether.  When there is a feeling that creeps over an issue or a person, it usually remains present whenever the issue or person arises. If you can redirect your focus to fill that aspect of your life with love and kindness, then we can change our feelings surrounding that part and change it to something we can approach with great ease and welcomeness. 

“One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself”.  I truly feel as health professionals it is our obligation to have experienced or invested our time into what we direct our clients to go through.  It is important to have perspective from their shoes, which can help in how we approach their treatment and path.  I feel in experiencing this for ourselves we are better in direction and better at our jobs.  How can we expect others to participate in practices that we have not confronted ourselves?  Having a healthy spiritual and psychological perspective in all aspects of life gives you this level of knowing and provides you with better guidance for your patients.  If we are encouraging our patients to develop an integral life, how can we assist them in the right direction if we have not been there ourselves?  That only leaves us at the blind leading the blind.  We must implement these practices that we have learned in class to our daily practices.  The healthier we can stay in our own lives, gives us a great ability to help others with theirs.