Complete the Meeting Aesclepius mp3 (located in the Doc Sharing area). Describe your meditative practices for the week and discuss the experience. Explain how mindfulness or meditation has fostered an increase in your psychological or spiritual wellness. How can you continue to apply these practices in your life to foster greater health and wellness?

For this week’s meditation I listened to the Meeting Aesclepius, it was an interesting yet difficult thing to focus my mind on. The person I picked to be my wise teacher was my father. He passed away about a year ago and he was such a caring and compassionate person, so wise and friendly. This mediation really helped me however, foucs on myself and really helped me center myself. However, I kept finding myself going back to other meditations like the loving-kindness meditation.  These meditations are getting easier to focus on each week and its becoming something I look forward to participating in.

Describe the saying: "One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself" (p.477). How does this apply to the health and wellness professional? Do you have an obligation to your clients to be developing your health psychologically, physically, and spiritually? Why or why not? How can you implement psychological and spiritual growth in your personal life?

I think the phrase “One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself “is a very true statement. I think as humans we can learn to empathizes but if we have never ourselves been in a position to understand the circumstances, then we cannot really lead. This topic really applies to health and wellness because, when working with clients they are going to be in situations that you may never has been in.  The best thing you can do is to listen and give them steps to help themselves worth through issues that they are having. Meditation can help them pull their thoughts together and help make them realize what they need to do.