Good evening everyone, before I start my blog this week I must confess my answers might be slightly skewed. The reason for this is I have been suffering from heavy congestion, sore throat, and flu like symptoms (minus the flu) kind of weird.
1. Now based on my reflections and a 1 to 10 scale I rate my physical well being at a 7-8 usually, my spiritual well being at an 8, and my psychological well being at a 9.
2&3.Some goals I would like to see in each area accomplished are: For my physical goal I would like to see the continuation of my smoking cessation (its been 3 days tobacco free) I need to continue this for not only my health but my family as well. A spiritual goal I would like to accomplish is to get in touch with nature more than I have in the past. I believe I can accomplish this by devoting time into a vegetable garden and spending more time with our new chickens. Finally to better improve my psychological demeanor I believe that more of a pacifistic tone in arguments and less confrontational can go a long way.
4. My experience in this weeks relaxation exercise started of as that frustrating as not only was my nose stuffed up by my upper chest congested. Over the period of this exercise I was able to put these symptoms behind me and clear my airway. I think that my sickness this week helped me better understand how this relaxation can help. Up until now 6:31pm I have spent all day in bed since last night and have not fully relaxed as I have during this exercise.
Hey Matt!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your tobacco-free 3 days!! I hope you are able to continue and succeed in quitting and I think honestly this class may be helpful in your quest to do so! I work in a restaurant and a couple of years ago randomly decided to start smoking. I think this was because pretty much everyone I worked with and hung out with smoked so I was like, "okay, why not." By the way, I was 24/25 when I decided this....who know's why at that age anyone would take up smoking when they'd been fine without it thus far. lol Anyway, I smoked for about and year and got tired of it, but even with just that little bit of time spent smoking, it was kind of hard to just stop so I know it's probably much harder for you (unless you happen to be a random one year smoker like myself haha). Anyway, what do you plan to do to keep yourself from smoking? Do you think the meditation exercises we've been doing will help you to do this at all?
Thank you Erin, quitting is going to be tough I unfortunately started smoking wayyyy too young as a kid in middle school I picked up smoking to fit in with my high school sister's friends, it is really sad. I have decided to do small exercises whenever I get a craving to help curb the need. Some exercises like: gum chewing, brushing my teeth, a physical activity, or striking up a conversation with someone to take my mind of off it.
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