"Meeting Aesclepius"

The Meeting Aesclepius Practice was a very interesting exercise.  I admit I struggled with keeping my mind focused on the image I created. I found myself over and over trying to get back to the image, therefore I had little time to really spend on what the exercise said focus on.  My mind is extremely busy right now and I cannot complain, my thoughts are good thoughts. I have so many wonderful things going on right now.  Which is a turn around from all of the medical issues that have been going on for the last 90 days are so.  

I am going to have to go over this exercise again and again because I realize that it really takes time. Integral health, mindfulness practices, a subtle mind, calm abiding all of these things take time to develop.  I am impulsive and move quickly at times but I realize that those practices that have been successful in my life have taken me a lifetime to get right and I am still working on some.  I think once I realized this I was able to calm down and make the most of it. Mind was no longer asking am I doing this right, I begin to accept what I saw in my mind what I felt in my heart and I was able to flow with the exercise.

I believe like any other practice, once we make them habit we can benefit from them, mindfulness exercises as well as meditation can help develop the inner person. It helps us to reduce stress, relax, give thought to the important things, discard the negative things. It helps to calm our minds and allows us to have mental clarity. We have a heighten consciousness. The simplest thing sometimes is the hardest thing.  In order to continue toward the goal of Integral health, these exercises have to become daily habits, its the only way to get to the place that we want to be. The practice only enriches us and allows us to more and more be strengthen, then and only then can we teach others how to obtain Integral Health.


The statement "one cannot lead another where one has not gone himself". Is a very good statement. Sure we can have information and share it with others and they can benefit from the information if they choose to, however, when one has experienced something and shares the information from their experience, it always is more helpful because it becomes real to the hearer.  
When health and wellness practitioners share their personal experiences of different practices, clients and patients are more apt to want to take part in the practice because they believe they see the actual results. I think when when physicians and others show they live the life that they advise others to live, it validates them.  When they teach something and don't follow the teaching themselves, it is easy to discard the information as this must not be true because he or she does not follow the information themselves... For example a physician telling a patient that he should not smoke, it is bad for his health and is effecting him negatively but has the smell of cigarette smoke on him as well as a package of cigarettes in his shirt pocket.  That patient may focus so hard on what he sees and not what he hears. The information does not benefit him because he is looking at that physician's practice.  It is hypocritical I think.
I personally think that it is essential for me to do all I can to better my health if I am to be an example to my clients. It is my testimony of how my health has changed that has allowed me to help so many. I continue this journey of learning and sharing because not only am I concerned for my health but for the health of all I come in contact with. I believe knowing that others depend on me for advice and information health me keep going, helps me to keep working at it and finding the best solutions for health and wellness.