Walk The Walk, Talk the Talk ASSIGNMENT 9

PREACH WHAT YOU PRACTICE Hector Bill Kaplan University HW420-01: Creating Wellness-Psych. & Spirit. Mark Maule

Walk The Walk, Talk the Talk Introduction First we must value practice! Managers, educators and practitioners should reflect practice in order to transform it, rather than guide practice from the mountain peaks (Pearson, 1999). When we have identified a need for change we must adapt, quantify, and dedicate away those things we want to change into contemplative practice. It is scary to seek out new

approaches and philosophies but we do this when there are gaps or doubts in the present moment activities negatively affecting us. There is a need by clients for reassurance. Qualified professionals should have first-hand experience on integral approaches they recommend. They must be able to walk the patient through the process with their own valued understanding of the challenges, positive benefits and final outcomes. The client should feel that this person has been changed, healed, and is the positive figure to assist them on their journey and to establish a personal bond that might be life-long friendship. Having a witness and being one can explain the psychological, spiritual and physical development one must practice daily to reach higher levels of overall transformation and consciousness. Personally, I need to continue to develop on all areas of the integral process. Times, life and circumstances are always dynamic and fluctuating. We can get caught up in it! I have found that what once work doesnt always and that we must adapt and find solution once that happens. Physically, I was where I wanted to be, but now, I need to rededicate myself to getting back on track after an injury. Psychologically there is always room for improvement and daily challenges. Meditation, listening to relaxing music, mental imagery, vacations, going for walks and spending time with myself and others is important for my mental growth. I plan on always being aware of how valuable it is to be grounded with love, gratification, kindness, compassion, having a giving nature and practicing daily time-outs. All these adventures lead to spiritual

Walk The Walk, Talk the Talk growth eventually. One thing that is missing and I plan to rectify is finding a mentor. I do need

guidance and someone I can talk to about my concerns, questions and when I feel less motivated to meditate. Through some of my meditation sessions, I have had the opportunity to visualize and talk to family members that have given me advice, shared insights, and have said you are home; its been a long time since seeing you. No fear, only love was present.

Assessment On a scale of 1-10, as a whole I rate myself an 8. This is an evolving condition and a sought after goal to improve upon daily through reading, searching, and thoughtfulness but also integral thinking. I am a physical person naturally and rate myself an 8 again. I enjoy lifes simple pleasures of the great outdoors and the playground we have inherited that is outside. I will hike mountains, seek peaks to climb, travel by way of river or creek, run up and down hills, and during those times I am at peace, in harmony with nature and tranquil in thought, connected to Gods presence. When I am not outside, I am working out indoors doing P90X or doing yoga. My newest adventure will be Turbo Fire with trainer Chalene Johnson. I could use to lose about twenty pounds of fat, so a fat-loss program is warranted at this time. Daily exercise also refocuses my mind and relieves morning stress. It definitely LIFTS my spirit and self-esteem plus I feel a sense of accomplishment and it conditions a restless mind into being calm. Psychologically I rate myself a 7. I have much work to do on this subject. Recent difficulties have tested my resolve and I have hit many bumps on this road because of it. My perceptions have not always been positive, even with my heighten sense and awareness of it. I do get stressed out; feeling frustrated if things dont go my way immediately. When I feel that way, I go within and still my noisy mind from my senses and thoughts to relax, to redistribute

Walk The Walk, Talk the Talk

energy to my body (another world exist), that reenergize my soul with purpose upon completion. I love to be a peace and harmony with things in nature and in my mind. It feels like home! Spiritually, I feel is one of my greatest strengths. I have always been aware of it due to my ancestors. My grandmother was once a holy woman in our tribe that eventually turned to Christianity to escape unsolicited visits from the outside spirit-world. Even though I feel spiritually connected I rate myself an 8. This is due to my struggle in the psychological area. I recently read an article entitled Empting the Cup: Healing Fragmented Identity. This paper was about indigenous peoples struggles (alcohol, drugs, depression and helplessness) that are in relations to the spiritual stripping and the oppression of culture, language and traditions brought on by colonialism. We have lost our way but seek to educate ourselves and fellow tribal members that we need bring back the old styles of communion, dancing, and spiritual practices. Emptying the Cup implies that our human bodies are physical vessels that contain our spiritual, emotional, and mental energies. My vessel has been filled with images of dancing barbaric savages in war paint, uneducated and defeated people whose culture was deemed heathen and of course cowboys and Indians rivalry. Amy Desjarlais wrote this piece and it made me aware that I need to empty my cup of negative colonial ideals and return to the ways of my ancestors. In the past there were traumas but these events are still affecting people to this day in the form of historical trauma theory. Historical trauma is cumulative emotional and psychological wounding over the lifespan and across generations, emanating from massive group trauma resulting from a cataclysmic history of genocide. Thanks to this class and education I have to this point, I have stumbled onto something quite important to me that is healing something I didnt understand before. Through community support, meetings with tribal leaders and identifying grief I will empower my spirit.

Walk The Walk, Talk the Talk

Goals Within my work, I have set some goals in all aspects of integral health and wellness. I want to get more involved with my community, neighborhood and tribe through dance, festivals, volunteering, gardening, sharing feelings and rancor. But most of all I want to feel good about life and the knowing that we can have health, happiness and wholeness for ourselves, friends and even enemies. I already have a fitness program (Turbo Fire), nutrition guide and have set a time to start which is after the holidays for 90 days, six days a week. Psychologically I need to continue with my mental practices of meditation, visualizations, and imagery. I have purchased a couple of albums dedicated to meditation. One is by Dr. Miles Neale titled Mindfulness Meditations For Tranquility and Insight and the others is Weight Loss through Hypnosis and Relaxation by Dr. Michael Cohn and DR. Mary Fuller. I have already started using them and they are great tools I bought at the iTunes store.

Practices for personal health I have set goals, deadlines, priorities and will engage persistence and determination to meet all aspects of my spiritual, psychological and physical requirements that I have imposed of myself to heal, strengthen and reach higher places of awakening. Physically its exercise and yoga six days a week with my structured program I have already mentioned. On my days off I will visit my favorite hiking destinations and indulge in blissful meditation there for spiritual connections and energy absorption. I also love art, music and community gatherings. All these

Walk The Walk, Talk the Talk expressions of creativity I will utilize to further my spiritual journey, as I will paint, draw and write. New Age music I already use and am using as I write my paper. Addressing old wounds and exploring the ones I dont know yet are at the root of my psychological development. I am trying hypnosis via MP3s with guided practice geared towards openness, stillness and

witnessing. Those practices I started last night at bedtime. This morning I was ready for my daily tasks and excited to do them, one is this assignment. I like the idea of cross-training integral practice (Dacher, 2006). The idea is to incorporate all priorities for a whole-body approach to health; addressing individual quadrants with further the development of all. Replacing negativity with can-do attitudes is a focus of mine through contemplative practice as the witness. I see my failings; adjust my feelings and emotions based off that assessment, and work diligently daily to heal. My intention is supreme!

Commitment I have been on a journey for quite some time now and what I have learned is I am evolving daily with meditation, physical enjoyment through exercise, eating healthy nutritious foods, and with my awareness of myself, the world and universe. We are all connected and part of the whole ocean of consciousness, spirits and energies that we can tap into to help us navigate unmapped territory. The entire universal system is made of the same materials, orbit small and large cosmic bodies are powered by the radiant energies of thought that travel to us, nurtures and heal us. My commitment is to us! My commitment is to all; to respect each individual as precious and a needed part of everything. We all need each others help to move on to something wonderful and beyond what we presently have. What we have is good but can be much better if we include everyone and leave no one behind. When we finally realize that hurting others hurts

Walk The Walk, Talk the Talk ourselves wars will seize and we will have time, resources, and dedication to spread health,

happiness and wholeness to ever corner of the planet instead of suffering. By reconnecting to the Great Spirit, with our Mother Earth and Father Sky Image we can collect our inner peaceful nature, calming our minds to hear the messages, and working in unison as a whole, we will overcome our many obstacles through divine wisdom and loving-kindness which will bring in a new level of reality and existence for humanity that includes living beings and consciousness. My commitment is to experience reconnections lost or forgotten, to stymie my own fears, to be open-minded and committed practitioner of integral health practice that include the practitioners in it makeup and considerations. I cant forget something written in the Empting the Cup: Healing Fragmented Identity article: it is impressed upon the reader the vital role spiritually practices, culture, and ceremony play in Aboriginal identity, trauma prevention and healing: it also opens the door to discussing a pragmatic approach to culturally appropriate consultation that empowers all communities to take responsibility to come together in a good-way, for a fresh look at the contemporary consultation models and provides necessary inspiration to think beyond the limitations of current diseased and disempowering realities (Desjarlais, 2012).

Walk The Walk, Talk the Talk

References Dacher, E. S. (2006). The Integral the Path to Human Flourishing Health. Laguna Beach, CA : Basic Heaith Publication. Marilyn Schlitz, Tina Amorok, Marc S. Micozzi. (2005). Consciousness & Healing. St. Louis: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone.

Retrieved on 12/14/2012, historical trauma: http://historicaltrauma.com/

Pearson, A. (1999). Preach what you practice. International Journal Of Nursing Practice, 5(4), 173. doi:10.1046/j.1440-172X.1999.00214.x

Desjarlais, A. (2012). Empting the Cup: Healing Fragmented Identity. Fourth World Journal, 43-96.