Meeting Aesclepius

I am finding that performing these practices are slightly easier, but my mind still wanders frequently though I am better at bringing my attention back to my exercise.  I did have a difficult time creating an image of a person and their image changed a few times during the practice.  I did make it through this practice the whole way even though it is still hard to keep my thoughts focused.  These exercises are currently just making me aware of what aspect of my psychological and spiritual wellness that I am needing to work on and how I am able to achieve these improvements.  I plan to continue practicing these exercises at least once or twice a week until I can get into a specific routine and can improve controlling my thoughts at which point I will increase the amount of times I practice.

I think the saying "One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself", simply means that we cannot help those in need if we ourselves have not experienced it, but also we will not help them if we haven’t learned the techniques that are beneficial to improving our health and wellness.  I think being able to teach and help others is more efficient when the teacher has experienced what they are preaching and can have some real life experiences.  As a health and wellness professional we should be confident that the steps we are encouraging to take and the practices will actually be helpful to the individual.  I do think that a wellness professional should always be working on improving their health psychologically, physically and spiritually as personal experience can sometimes hit home better instead of reading something from a book or a pamphlet.  I think that we should also be practicing what we preach otherwise others may not be inclined to follow in our footsteps.  We can have growth in our life by continuing practicing meditation, calming the mind, and learning loving-kindness.  Simply following these exercises in a normal routine can help you grow in learning to remove negative thoughts and feelings and improve from the inside out.