Hi everyone
This course has been wonderful. I consider this a life course not just a college course. Everyone should be required to take a course like this just to be allowed to live life.
I sat back and reviewed the assessment of my psychological, physical and spiritual well-being. I have found that I have actually improved. Psychologically I would give myself an 8 physically 9 and spiritually 7. One of the goals I set for myself was to work on letting others do things for me and not be so pickey. I have started delegating duties around the house. Everyone is doing well and I do not go behind them and do it again or criticize them if they did it incorrectly. I just thank them for their help and appreciate what they did do. Also another goal was to learn patience. I am still working on that. I think that will get better as my stress gets better. The activities that I have taken part in mostly are the exercises from the book; subtle mind and calm abiding and visualization. I really like these exercises they help me to relax and I seem to be more focused and less stressed after doing them.
This course has given me a calmer mind, helped me to work on patience, acceptance and stress. When assisting others I don’t seem to get frustrated when they don’t understand or do not do it correctly. I am doing better at accepting people for who they are and realizing that I cannot change them.
Thank you to everyone in the course especially Mark. I am leaving this course with a lot of knowledge that I did not have before. Things that I can use for the rest of my life.
I hope everyone in the course will keep their blog open and stay in touch.
Sherri Eldreth
7 comments:
Sherri,
Good for you for being able to let go and let others help. That is a hard thing to do. I am a bit of a control freak and I know this can be difficult for me as well. Patience is also my life lesson. I have a lot of trouble waiting. I have gotten better but it is a work in progress.
Good Luck with everything, it has been a pleasure getting to know you.
Hi Sherri,
I am happy to hear you are practicing patience in your daily life. That will also help with stress relief because it seems when we get impatient we stress alot more over things we can't control. Good point and I agree with you that this course should be taught as a life course to everyone. We would probably have a more peaceful world if that was the case.
Good luck to you in your future path to human flourishing.
Sheree
Sherri,
You sound just like me! I tend to be a perfectionist and can go a little over board and I have noticed that. I would put more stress on myself and not to mention extra work by having things done my way. In my house it got to the point where no one wanted to do anything because they knew that it would not be done the way I wanted it and would just go behind them and do it all over again. This class was definitely life changing for me and I say that with all honesty. I wish you nothing but luck in your future. It was great having this class with you!
Luna
Hi Sherrie,
I am also a person that needs to work on my patience. That is where the majority of my stress lies I think, so the relaxation exercises have really helped me to tone things down a little bit. I didn't realize how uptight I actually was until going through some of the units in this class. It kind of makes me think "gosh, what do others think of me". But I guess, who cares. Thanks for all your posts and insight during the term. It is always great to hear other people's perspective on things. Good luck with the rest of your studes!
Melanie
I really liked this course too. For me letting go and letting others help was an issue for me. I have always wanted to be able to fix everything.. but lately I have realized that we cant fix everything. It takes a lot for a person to have patience but it can be done..everyday is a working progress.. life will never be perfect but learning from our mistakes... not looking back and making a point to be happy everyday whether we want to or not ...makes all the difference,
I agree that everyone should take this course.. it has helped me so much ..I have learned patience over the years by having a special needs son .. it did not come easy it is learned. My problem is letting others help I am so use to doing everything myself... when someone steps in I watch and second guess them on what they are doing b/c it is not to my standard. I don't know I have always been my kids mom and dad so I guess that is where it comes from. Everything in life is a working progress.. nothing will ever be perfect and whatever we do will somewhere a long the way be misunderstood.
Thank you for sharing your experience with us. It has truly been a pleasure reading everyone’s blogs and discussions on the board. It sounds like you are well on your way to continue your discoveries about yourself. As you rated yourself doesn’t seem like you have a lot of work ahead to reach greater leaves that where you are now. Keep up the good work and continue to do you.
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