Meeting Asclepius

Unit 7 Blog

Complete the "Meeting Asclepius" exercise on track #4 of the Dacher CD. Describe your meditative practice(s) for the week and discuss the experience. Explain how mindfulness or meditation has fostered an increase in your psychological or spiritual wellness. How can you continue to apply these practices in your life to foster greater health and wellness?

     What a great exercise, meeting with my teacher that way was great. I have a mentor, who I see as wise, guiding, patient, loving, a great healer and so much more. He sees my soul and has helped me and continues to help me with learning and loving myself. He said this path I’m taking is the rough side of the mountain, but he is certain based on my innate abilities and drive that I will get to the top. The “top” of the mountain is the complete human flourishing of man. I can’t wait to experience and live it. The exercise me brought closer to my “Baba”, as many have referred to him. He did say the transfer takes time, the energy of all knowing. I feel wisdom make an attempt at transfer but he’s right, I am not ready yet, when it does happen and it will I too can guide others’ on their journey to find themselves. Our thoughts manifest in ways we sometimes doubt did I do that.  The truth is what we create in our minds, it has power and that power is able to materialize. We can change how we think and how we live with our mind.  Meditation helps us change and think in a more elevated manner to make beautiful transformation in our lives.  This transformation helps us to become healthy thinker; a healthy mind creates a healthy body. I can foster these practices by training my mind daily, I have begun this practice and it is a good start in the right direction.

Describe the saying: "One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself” (P.477) how does this apply to the health and wellness professional? Do you have an obligation to your clients to be developing your health psychologically, physically, and spiritually? Why or why not? How can you implement psychological and spiritual growth in your personal life?

          A person who has not experienced, trained, or lived a situation cannot be prepared to give comment, direction or make a purpose out of it for another person.

     I do think that some people are born with an innate ability to do thing but the practice of doing it makes a difference. Once you are prepared as a profession to apply health and wellness you will see it and feel it. You have an obligation to your clients to be prepared spiritually, psychologically, and physically.  When clients come to you they are seeking the best you have to give. It is only right a professional practitioner be skilled, in all areas of alternative medicine, not just one area.  Practitioners must remember that giving means a continual path of learning and growing for them. Therefore a practitioner is always building themselves. I personally read and interact myself with self improvement books and activities. I am in touch with myself through the art of mantra’s using them is a good start, visualization are good too. Meditation helps to build my mind. Stepping out of oneself to find oneself is an art and a process. It doesn’t happen overnight but it happens eventually. I continue to grow like an oak.