Rainbow Meditation

After completing the rainbow exercise I felt more relaxed but I don't think it had anything to with the rainbow visual.  I think it was mostly a result of distraction from my typical thoughts.  I have done this exercise before and each time I wasn't that impressed with it.  I am much more of a fan of the visualizations I can relate to, like the mental visits to a tropical beach or other relaxing places I have been before or would like to go.  I don't know if it is just me or not, but the guy that does these recordings is a little distracting to me.  I know he is supposed to sound relaxing but I feel like he is talking to me as if I am a kid.  He has that "Here you go hunny, don't spill it" tone in his voice, and I think I start focusing more on that than the actual exercise for awhile!

Wellbeing- Physical, Spiritual, and Psychological

Based on a scale of 1-10, I feel that I am around an 8 in physical wellbeing, a 6 in spiritual wellbeing, and a  7 in psychological wellbeing.  I am in great physical shape since I am a group fitness instructor and enjoy exercising, but I am great a cheating on my healthy lifestyle diet and go through phases where all I eat is junk.  I am not much of a spiritual person and while I don't feel there is anything wrong with my spiritual wellbeing, I do believe it can be enhanced and made of more importance.  My psychological wellbeing is for the most part solid, but I do have periods of time where I am way too over stressed for no logical reason and it makes me anxious.
To improve my physical wellbeing I can work harder to limit the junk I eat.  I don't mean eliminate it completely, but learn that a serving size is not a whole family size bag of chips at 11 o'clock at night.  I enjoy too much of a good thing, and if I can just have a little and be satisfied it would greatly improve my physical wellbeing.  Spiritually I can make more of an effort to see things beyond myself.  I work a lot of hours and come home to a lot of homework so the few seconds I have outside of that I am usually self about.  I can start saying yes to a night out occasionally with friends to open my mind and time to others and enjoy the moment.  Psychologically, I can start a journal of when I feel the most stress to find a pattern and try to lessen the impact of whatever keeps getting under my skin.
We could all use some adjustments to our lives to make it more enjoyable and improve our overall wellness.
My opinion on the relaxation exercise will be coming soon!  The last one I did was at night and I got a great nights sleep, I am going to try the same with this one!

Welcome To My Blog!

Hello everyone!  Welcome to my blog.  This is the first time I have ever done one so ignore any beginner mistakes I am sure to make.  I think is this a fun and interesting idea to help us open up to our selves and others about health and wellness in our own lives.  I am sorry for my first post being so late, but I am part of Northern New Jersey that got hit hard by the snow storm on Saturday.  I was without power for 2 days and working crazy hours to cover for my boss who had no power and many trees fall around his home.  BUT I am back on track and hope to stay there!

I just completed the relaxation exercise, and I am not going to lie, I think I fell asleep for a minute or two during it.  I was very interested from the start when he talked about moving blood to different parts of the body.  My room is cold and just mentally willing my arms and hands to get warm, I actually felt warmer.  His voice is very soothing, which is probably why I felt so sleeping, but like he says at the end, I do not feel fatigued, but relaxed and calm.  I love trying these types of exercise, and anything I can find to help me relax is worth a shot in my book.