Unit 6-

I really loved the loving-kindness exercise!!! It was so hard to focus but once I started to focus on the words of the exercise, my mind started to focus. I realized a while back that I wanted my goal in life to be relieving us much suffering from others as possible in every area but especially spiritually and physically.  Doing this practice reminded me of my passion and life goal. I believe I will continue to implement this exercise into my daily life and someday when I am practicing my goal in a professional setting I believe that will be on my wall somewhere for me to see every day.

     I really liked the self-evaluation exercise too! I believe I have found that the part of my life that has been biggest source of suffering has been my psychospiritual life. I have been driven by fear in how I react to things that come my way. I snap at others when I am feeling threatened even in a slight way and I am always on the defensive, wondering what someone really meant when they said something. This is an awful way to live and I really want to make this fear go away! I am motivated by "the first source of motivation (that) is instinctual, reactive, and ego-centered. It is usually driven by fear." (Dacher, pg.107) This is also the same area that needs developing.

   I intend on implementing meditation, coupled with lots of prayer to combat this destructive attitude. I intend on being more focused on realizing when I am allowing this to take over my attitudes and actions and help myself work through those moments.

Dacher, E. (2006). Integral Health: The Path to Human Flourishing. Basic Health Publications:

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