1. Based on your reflections and the assessments completed in the project: On a scale of 1 to 10 (ten being optimal wellbeing) where do you rate your A-physical wellbeing, B-spiritual well-being, C-psychological well-being? Why?

After reviewing my unit 3 assessment of my psychological, physical, physical, and spiritual well-being, I now score myself a 10. Yes my score has changed because I am able to express myself more effectively when dealing with distress or disease. When striving for a more profound life and health I express myself applying the four aspects of psychospiritual, interpersonal, biological, and worldly experiences. I have stepped up to a higher level of development that embraces my previous knowledge and capacity and at the same time transcend their limitations. This shift/leap is accompanied by new priorities, resources, and capacities.

2. Develop a goal for yourself in each area (physical, spiritual, psychological).

In the physical area I have developed a goal to spend at least one hour every day engaging in physical activity. In the spiritual area I have developed a goal to spend wake up a half hour early to pray and meditate for at least one half hour in the afternoon and late evening. In the psychological area I have developed a goal to continue training my mind to be a mental Olympian. I will make inner development my life’s work. I intend to undergo a permanent change by properly training my mind from the ordinary to the exceptional.

3. What activities or exercise can you implement in your life to assist in moving toward each goal?

The activities or exercise I can implement in my life to assist in moving toward each goal is to apply the five essential characteristics that are important to fully understand as I seek to revitalize my current approach to health and healing.

4. Describe your experience with The Crime of the Century relaxation exercise. To hear it, click here. Describe your experience. (What it beneficial? Frustrating? etc.)

My experience with The crime of the Century relaxation exercise was refreshing. It made me acknowledge relaxation should be a part of my daily routine. If I apply this technique daily I would not have days that are extremely overwhelming to the point of being exhausted. However I find myself burning the candle at both ends of the stick often. The same time transcends my limitations.

1. Review the exercises and practice sessions you have completed in this course. (Loving Kindness, Subtle mind, Visualization, meditation etc.) Choose two practices that you have determined to be most beneficial.

The two practices that I have determined to be most beneficial to me are Loving Kindness and The Subtle Mind.



How can you implement these practices in your personal life to foster “mental fitness”? Provide specific examples.

I can implement these practices in my personal life to foster “mental fitness” by developing a higher consciousness by obtaining the ability to reliably access the deeper layers of my mind. This is what transforms a glimpse of what is possible into a way of life. I am able to progress through the psychospiritual levels of development with a single practice, the subtle mind practice. I am able to progress through the psychospiritual levels of development with a single practice.
Loving-kindness continuously reminds me to endure well-being and requires a diminished focus on myself and my own needs and an enhanced concern and compassion for the welfare of others. This places me directly and firmly on the path to integral health and life. From experience it is confirmed that loving-kindness attracts loving-kindness. When I attract loving-kindness, my mind is calmer and a far better candidate for contemplative practice. Although, initially I must practice this mental attitude, there will be time in the development of my psychospiritual life that loving-kindness will reveal itself as a natural and effortless aspect of higher consciousness. Then I will no longer have to cultivate this attitude or quality through practice.
The Subtle Mind also reminds me that enduring well-being requires cultivation of wisdom. I cultivate wisdom by taming and training my mind, accessing its deeper levels, and exploring the essential nature of mind and experience. I begin by taming my busy mind. I learn how to diminish the ceaseless mental movements of thoughts, feelings, and images. When I practice regularly, I am definitely able to still my mind and develop a witnessing consciousness that subsequently progresses toward the stable and facile mind of calm-abiding.