Cleaning House

This week has been very productive.  I have had a "To Do List" that has needed my attention and this weekend I started marking things off.  I started with dusting, I waited until everyone went to bed to begin.  I never can get anything done when everyone is awake and running about.  The next day I enlisted my husband in my cause and we began to take my daughters bathroom apart.  I've lived in my home for about 7 yrs but its 20 yrs old and it needs to be updated.  It felt so good to do something so physical, and we were able to get it complete with out WWIII starting between me and my husband.  LOL.  I polished my hardwoods in my living room and redecorated.  I feel so at ease and accomplished.  I did not get to do much meditation done this week but this was so therapeutic.  It was just like clearing of the mind.  The things on my list were like having a bunch of thoughts in my head and I needed them out.  The practice of training the mind, help me understand that I needed to stop putting this work off.  It was causing me anxiety and how much was not realized until I finished what I started.  There is more to be done but now I'm looking forward to the work, being creative and spending time with my husband.  A negative has become a positive.

"One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself."  This reminds me of a saying in church, "you can not have a testimony with out a test."  Some things in life have to be experienced and lived.  It is one thing to read text and regurgitate the information out to someone but its totally different if you have person experiences that can be shared to express how something has worked or effected your life.  So yes I think life experience is the best practice if you are a health and wellness professional.  I think that if you have experience, that when a client has a pit fall you will be better equipped to understand and help them recover.

With the help of this class and church, I'm working on my walk in integral health.  There is not just one place that I put these practices to work.  I try to be more giving, do more in my community, spend quality time with my kids, find time just for me, pray and listen to my inner voice and work at curbing my tongue and temper.