i cant seem to figure out how to upload my power point project to this blog spot....TECHNO IDIOT AND BLONDE TO BOOT!!!!!

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I think I must be Backwards unit 5 post

I found the subtle mind exercise to be more difficult than the loving one. I guess even though I many times have a hard time loving myself I have a very easy time showing kindness and compassion to others so the thoughts of loving kindness are easy to incorporate....I am not very good at turning off the chaotic stuff in my mind though. I suffered a sever brain injury as I flew through a windshield at 60 MPH several years ago....Since then....my mind is never sublte....my thoughts never seem to quiet down. I suffered total amnesia and it took 10 months just for my conscious mind to break back through.....when ever i try to meditate or grow closer to my inner mind or my subtle mind, or any part of my mind I hear a chaotic chattering...like the school teacher in Brigadoon is it as if all my past memories that are still blocked are fighting to break free. in many ways this makes me want to practice and practice in the hope of healing the gulf and in other ways it makes me leery of the fight that seems to await me

Unit 4 I can't focus

I had a very hard time focusing on the exercises this week!!! I have a very bad inner ear infection and I feel like I am in a bubble....or maybe underwater....I got distracted very easily during both of the trials that I gave it. I do believe that it is important to exercise loving kindness and I am going to try to revisit this exercise after the incessant buzzing in my head subsides :( ARGH!!!!

Health in a Handbasket

If asked to rate my personal health on a scale of 1-10 I would have a hard time . if asked to break the aspects of my health down a bit then rate them well...that may be a bit more tackleable. On a scale of 1-10 my physical health would probably be a 2 maybe 3 right now, my psychological health would probably be a 7 maybe 8, and my spiritual health an 8 or 9. I give two numbers because I don't think that I stay at any one spot for even as long as any one day. Usually I would rate my physical health much higher. I am usually very healthy despite the heart complication I have had since my teenage years. However I have recently spent a WEEK in the hospital nursing my daughter back to respiratory health and in the process picked up some kind of nosocomial infection that has nearly sunk me. I am fighting a good fight and my self prognosis is that I will be returning to 8 or 9 status by the weekend given the regimen of rest, good nutrition and colloidal silver that I have begun in conjunction with the allergy medication that is essential for me this time of year. My psychological health is usually high as long as I am allowed the time and means to writeout he babblings that wander around in my psyche and spiritually I keep myself in tune with my God through study, prayer and reflection.

The Crime of The Century

Okay..this was not what I expected from the title line of the script for the week. I log into a meditation exercise entitled Crime of the century and first thought....how could this be relaxing. Then it occurred to me that maybe 5 minutes into the exercise there would be a loud crash or a traumatic interruption and the point of the lesson would be on how to restore your peace after a "crime of the century" type of reaction. With this mind set I settled in to listen to the exercise. to my surprise there was no crash or bang or anything that eluded to any type of crime. I have great trouble with many forms of meditation. When I close my eyes I see only a reddish orange blob!!! i cannot visualize myself into other setting and though I can focus my thoughts on my different chakras, I cannot imagine them taking on different colors in such a way as is described in the exercise. These are frustrating to me. Are they frustrating to anyone else???? I listened through the exercise three more times, falling asleep twice and found it still very frustrating. Meditation is not my forte I suppose!!!

My personal "Journey On"

In the Journey On...I contemplated the power of blood flow and attempted to gain control over the flow of blood throughout my body. I have always had a problem with the blood flow in my feet.
When I am tired they always feel as if all the blood has pooled to the bottom side of my toes. They will itch and burn. As I listened and applied the meditation techniques for moving blood flow from the abdomen to the arms i was impressed to find that my arms did in fact get warmer but is was disappointed when they never got HEAVY nor was I ever unable to raise them. I was impressed enough however, once it was complete, to return to the exercise in an attempt to move the blod flow from my feet to my abdomen. I was somewhat successful in this attempt and fund that not only was I able to relieve much of the itching and burning from my feet but I was also able to refresh my body to a degree. I will definitely be experimenting more and more with this concept in the future. I have a heart condition that is often aggravated by a lack of blood flow to different areas. I m sure that furthering the use of this technique will help dramatically with it.

"HI" note to health

"HI everyone!" I am brand new and very inexperienced at this blogging thing and beginning this project as part of an assignment (for anyone who might follow who is NOT from my school). Though this is am assignment I am eager to learn the process of accessing new technology and welcome the challenge!

By way of introduction I am currently a single mom of four children just entering their teen-aged years, and am currently engaged to be married (though that seems to be going around like wild fire in the Kaplan web span!!!! :) I am majoring in Health and Wellness because after 21 years in the medical field with a holistic grandmother breathing down my neck I have learned the value of both conventional and complementary health and desire to learn more about combining the use of both to bring about total and complete wellness. I believe that there is no one panacea out there and it is foolishness to seek for one, but there are so many great and wonderful therapies and modalities that coupled together will bring lasting health and happiness. That is my goal in learning!