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Unit 8 blog

Sorry my blog is so late but I lost power for three days thanks to hurricane “Irene”. I think all the meditation exercises are as equally important and beneficial, but if I had to pick a meditation exercise that would be most beneficial to my profession as a personal trainer it would be love and kindness.

Most of my clients are over weight or obese and they have very low self esteem, so I have to show love (genuine love) so they don’t feel that I am looking down on them. Most people think that physical fitness is all physical, its not, it is mostly mental, one important part of my job is building up self esteem in my clients. This gives them the ability to step up the challenge and overcome, this mind set also overflows to all areas of life.     

Meditation

Meditation

I have been practicing meditation for two years so the concept of meditation is not new to me. However Dachers meditation exercise took me to the next level, it helped me go even deeper into the realm of meditation. Meditation is a must in my life because if my busy schedule, work, school, family, and personal training many clients I need meditation to clear from a crazy day. I am also teaching my client to meditate to help them lower their blood pressure and achieve help achieve over all health.

The love and kindness exercise is my favorite because I am a Christian, and when he say to think I a person I love and fill my heart with that love I think of Jesus, so it is so easy for me. I can’t wait to really get deeper and deeper I doing this type of meditation because I know there is no limit of I far a person can take meditation.  

One can not lead another were one has not gone himself

Unit 7 blog

Practice what you preach

I think that standard is missing today with many professionals; everything is base off head knowledge and not revelation knowledge. Head knowledge is a person reading something or accumulating knowledge in school, then turn around and regurgitate it out to someone else as though they know without a shadow of doubt that this information is right.

Revelation knowledge is when a person learns something in school or some were else, then applying it to their life and trying it out to see if this information works. And if it works how it does work? What’s the cause and affect of what I am trying? What is the best way to apply what ever it is? This is revelation knowledge something that is reveled by experience, you know that it works because you tried it.

This is the reason why I compete in natural bodybuilding shows, because I have to push things to the limit in order to prepare for the vent. When I come up this a new diet plan I try it out when I am training for a competition to see how well it works, I believe in trying new workouts and diets myself before I prescribe them to a client. Also training for a show keeps my client motivated because they see first hand how a body can change with diet and exercise. And finally clients seeing me training for these events tend to trust me a lot more because the know if I recommended something, then it works because I done it first.

Unit 6 blog

To Practice universal love and kindness meditation exercise on page 93 is pretty easy for me because me and my prayer group does something similar to this every week. We go to church and love it but we practice Christianity in its true form outside of church as much as we can. We pray for the sick, hungry orphans, homeless and many others on consistent bases, my love for people grows each day. I am glade I took this class because the exercises that I am learning from Dacher are something I will incorporate into my daily/weekly prayers. Dachers exercises really works well once I learn what to do, I recommend this to anyone.

Unit 5 blog

Loving Kindness & Subtle Mind

It is hard for me to compare the love and kindness and subtle mind exercise because they have two different functions but both of them start in the mind with meditation. Love and kindness teaches use how to stop for a minute open our hearts and embrace love. First loving ourselves and then loving others, but in order to do this we have to settle ours minds and focus on one thing; love.

The subtle mind is great because it teaches using how to take control of our own minds because we really don’t have any control at all. I like it because it is great for meditation which I love to do but it take it to another level. I think both of these exercise are equally important but they have two different functions.  

Unit 4 blog

I learned about meditation and visualization from one of my classes last year and I have been using it ever since. However Dacher meditation CD takes it to another level, it goes beyond just clearing the mind but it gives my mind and spirit something to meditate on. I plan on using Dacher love and kindness exercises until I master it, I recommend that everyone in this class give it a chance, I believe it will change your life. After practicing this exercise I felt totally relaxed and completely renewed.