My Psychospiritual Development

This week I practiced the Universal Loving Kindness exercise. I enjoyed my practices this week because they were more focused on others and a constant reminder during meditation of not being selfish, but thinking of our society and it's issues as a whole. The areas that I have chosen to be a focus for development this week is my psychospirtitual and biological development. I was not able to just choose one to focus on, which made meditation a little more difficult for me.  I opted to focus on one area per session.  I am severely weak in this area, because I do have some personal hang-ups with meditation as a whole.  Making my mind quiet so that I can totally focus on my spirtitual health has been a challenge for me every week.  I have also found that through my reading and research in this course that meditation can be a healing process for some medical issues that I suffer with.  I have some cardiac issues, coupled with high blood pressure and some cholesterol issues.  I also have modest hypoglycemia.  I am learning that mediation and yoga are actually natural healers for these issues.  I am hoping that even when this course is over that I will have learned enough to continue my practices, but also monitor how it has been beneficial to my health in the long run. Specific exercises that I can do to foster greater wellness in this area are to continue my meditation practices as stated earlier, but to also incorporate more mind body exercises like yoga and to incorporate a little tai chi since I am very interested in it.  This course is opening many new doors for me and each weekly practice is bringing me that much closer to my own personal goals for health and wellness.