Unit 7

Well the person that came to my mind was my best friend who is like a brother and who was like a teacher and mentor to me about many of the mysticism beliefs that we both share. He guided me get more in touch and in tune with the universe and the capabilities, power, and strength of the mind and soul. For him much of what we have learned in this class is second nature for him, he can meditate at the drop of a dime, switch to the witnessing mind, calm abiding mind, and unity consciousness like it is a piece of cake, and he can channel the power of his mind over matter like no other. I know that I have the capability of being a wise and caring healer that is much of what I do in life. I have always been a life coach for people, I care for, respect, and nurture people, animals, and even things. I share my love, energy, and emotions with people with the intention of helping them to be happy and healthy. I have come a long way towards loving and taking care of myself also. By nature I have always been a care giver, most times I feel like a psychologist or therapist, a nurturer of those in need, and a leader of example. Mainly this exercise made me think about my best friend whom we had a falling away because we had differences of opinions on my life path and his life path took him to far and busy places. I am sure he was very frustrated with where I was going because it was not a conducive path towards where I want to go, the path was filled with heartache, depression, hurt, and abuse, and mainly it took away from my integral path towards human flourishing. It was actually quite the opposite, so I can understand why my friend was upset with the choice in direction I was taking. Although, I do believe that people need to figure it out for themselves, sometimes they need to go through experiences, learn the hard way, learn in their own way, and so forth. There have been many times where I had people ask me advice but they didn't take it and learned the hard way instead of taking my advice so they could achieve what it was that they wanted. I learned that in that circumstance you just need to be there for that person and help them when they need help back up, and support them. I think the mindful practices have had great information to offer and talk about. I did not have very good luck with incorporating these exercises into my life but I would like to search for ones that I do like that I could incorporate into my daily life. On my Youtube meditation playlist I not only have Omharmonic meditative music, I also have subliminal message music, and also guided meditations that I have found to be more pleasing and easier to listen and pay attention to. Mainly the information that has been presented in class are things that I already knew about so it has given me an opportunity to refresh, be consciously aware of the information each day, and work towards applying it more, perfecting what I already do, work on incorporating more, and improve where I falter. The saying about not being able to lead somewhere where you have not gone is a very simple concept. It would be like teaching someone how to snowboard but you yourself don't know how to snowboard, that doesn't make much sense. You can learn together, but that is learning not teaching another. People also do not appreciate being given advice from someone who does not know first hand about what they are trying to teach. I am the oldest of 20 grandchildren on one side of the family, taken care of my friend's and family's children, worked in day cares since I was young, have a natural talent with children, but I do not have any of my own yet so I would never expect to get a job teaching parents how to deal with their children. As soon as people found out I don't have any children they would walk out of the class. It wouldn't matter how much experience I have with children, I am not a parent, therefore I do not completely know or understand. I absolutely believe that I have an obligation to develop my health psychologically, physically, and spiritually! Lead by example! My quitting smoking cigarettes has been an inspiration to many people around me. Going to the gym and talking about it has lead to many people around me to check out gyms, use the temporary passes the gyms offer to check out their gym, people getting gym memberships, and getting people who have memberships to start going more often. Talking to people about ways to decrease stress, sharing information about what I know and what I have learned impacts those around me in a positive way. I talk about eating healthy, being healthy, active, happy, and so forth and people want to hear about it, discuss it, they ask me question that I look into and get back to them about if I didn't know or misconceptions that they heard about that aren't true. I have been implementing psychological, spiritual, and physical growth in my life, so what is on my agenda is to maintain, perfect, and incorporate new things when the opportunity presents itself. I realized today that much of my life I was telling myself to go with the flow, go where life took me, but since I took back control of my life I have realized that wasn't really the right way to look at it. My mind set now is that instead of going with the flow of life I am the one in charge of the flow of my life. One of things that I emphasize when talking with people about the changes I have made in my life and where I have come from to where I am now, is that every day takes work, every moment of the day takes effort, it does however take the simple thought of deciding that it is time to make the change.