Health Behavior Analysis

Another state of consciousness is meditation. Meditation is the focusing of ones attention to clear the mind and produce relaxation. There are three major approaches to meditation. The first approach is Transcendental meditation. Transcendental meditation involves the repetition of a mantra, usually a Sanskrit phrase. The participant sits with his or her eyes closed and meditate for 15 to 20 minutes twice a day. The second approach, mindfulness meditation, was developed from a Buddhist tradition. Mindfulness meditation focuses on the present moment. For example, the participant might move his or her focus throughout the body, from the tip of their toes to the top of their head, and paying very close attention to areas that cause pain. The third approach is breath meditation. Breath meditation is when a participant focuses his or her respiration-the process of inhaling and exhaling in a rhythmic pattern. Most people believe that proper breathing can help one self to be stress free. Researchers agree that most people can benefit from some sort of systematic relaxation

The first two strategies were temporary stress-reduction techniques. These were necessary to immediately address anxiety. By listening carefully and reaching back, the author changed the focus of his or her thoughts on something more pleasant. Also, going to the beach, removing his or herself from the stressful environment was a form of a temporary enactive strategy. The last strategy, reexamining motives, allowed the author to reevaluate his current life balance, perhaps to redefine his set of personal principles and values.

Baptist Memorial Healthcare is the organization for our group presentation. The mission this organization “In keeping with the three-fold ministry of Christ-healing, preaching and teaching-Baptist Organizational Memorial Health Care is committed to providing quality healthcare” (Little,J, 2015). The culture of the organization begins with their Vision, “ We will be the provider of choice by transforming the delivery of the healthcare through partnering with patients, families, physicians, care providers, employers and payers; and by offering safe, integrated, patient-focused, high quality, innovative, cost-effective care” (Little,J, 2015) “The Promise is to make a difference by living out our faith”. The Commitment of the organization is “To deliver to our patients and community the right care, at the right

During the time in my PED 101 yoga flow class I finally got the privilege to enforce a physical activity and this has given me some insight of how being physically active can change you not just physically. Mentally I feel that I can focus more and handle test better, I am less emotional, and have increased my social outlook and my interactions with people. This is evidence of the divine act of wellness and how dimensions often effecting many other aspects of one’s life ultimately for the better. However, with their also being an online portion I got educated on the different aspects of maintaining one’s health and certain things that goes into it or effect it.

Gather information from this person. How do they believe this behavior currently impacts their health? What do they believe about health risks of this behavior? Do they believe it will impact them individually, why or why not? What do they believe would happen if they changed their behavior? What do they perceive as benefits to making a change? What are possible barriers to making a change? What would influence them to make a change? This is just a starting list of questions, but you want to learn as much as you can about what influences this person's feelings and beliefs about this health behavior. Once you have gathered this information, write a summary about what you learned from this interview for paragraph 1. Refer to Chapter 4 for other questions you may want to ask to find out more about influences on health behaviors.

The adherent to diaphragmatic breathing for deep meditation has to take the time to learn to breathe from the diaphragm and keep the top of the chest and the bottom of the abdomen still.

Mindfulness of Breathing is using your breath as an object of concentration while meditating (The Buddhist Centre

My Muscular fitness was superior compared to an average person. This did not come as a surprise to me since I routinely to the gym to lifts weights.

The second stated “long-term meditators would show superior performance to short-term meditators”. And the third stated “concentrative meditators would be more subject to expectancy effects…mindfulness meditators would show superior performance relative to concentrative meditators when the stimulus was unexpected” (Valentine & Sweet, 1999, p. 63). Using the Wilkins’ Counting Test (a measure of sustained focused attention) the control group was placed in a classroom to perform the test while the meditation groups were tested post meditation sessions in a separate room. The test was comprised of a series of tones which each group was asked to count (the meditation groups were told there would be three rather than two sets). The results confirmed the three hypotheses, overall concurring the use of meditation leads to improved concentration with little difference between concentrative and mindfulness meditation (Valentine & Sweets, 1999).

Health psychology can be defined as the "scientific relations among psychological factors, behavior and physical health and illness" (Kazak 2015). According to the British Psychological Society, health psychologists deal with health promotion and behaviour change. They achieve this by applying psychological knowledge and evidence based interventions. This essay focuses on the contribution of health psychology to increasing healthy behaviours.

Initially, I was nervous to begin daily meditations because I had tried to meditate before and I could never truly calm my mind from the thousands of thoughts that would swirl around. However, after meditating for fifteen minutes daily for a week, I can now say that I have become more comfortable with meditation, but it was a challenging week. At many times, I felt uncomfortable sitting in silence because my thoughts would constantly distract me from trying to focus on my breathing. Yet, as the week progressed, I noticed that I became more comfortable with the practice. Surprisingly, time passed very quickly when I meditated, it felt as though it was roughly five minutes, when it was really fifteen minutes. As well, the

1- Adoption of a regular schedule of silent meditation. This mediation could be done while sitting, walking, standing or eating.

For instance, this is a common kapaphatic meditation I do on a regular basis. Twice a week I do a type of kataphatic meditation called centering prayer. It can be relatively easy and good for beginners. I start off on focusing on a single phrase or mantra and on my breathing. The mantra I use often is “My God loves me,” and then I sit and dwell on this phrase and its meaning, repeating it from time to time as I focus on my breath. I also often make my mantra a part of my breathing; imagining breathing in the love of God and then breathing it out into the world. This meditation usually can last for

In the past few weeks, I have attempted to exercise at least 5 times a week, challenge myself by eating more fruits and veggies, drinking more water, eating more superfoods, and getting at least 8 hours of sleep at night. I also worked on overall improving my own wellness with more meditation, winding down at night before sleeping, and dumping the processed, unhealthy foods. At the beginning, I thought this would be simple, but as days passed, I soon realized how unhealthy my usual lifestyle is and how much better I was feeling focusing more on my health. From running a mile around the neighborhood to sleeping more at night, I saw an improvement physically and mentally.

My yoga journey started more than ten years ago with an intense and dedicated interest in learning yoga postures from Ashtanga, Hatha, Jivamukti, etc. In the beginning I practised most days of the week and imagined that I would never tire, in spite of long trips to the studio in the early hours of the morning. A pleasant reward was that my blood pressure dropped back to normal and I could stop taking medicines. So, from the start, I knew that yoga could provide health benefits as well as an enormous feeling of wellbeing. No matter how tired and fed-up one felt at the beginning of a session, the mental lift afterwards was deeply satisfying. Meditation, Savasana, or corpse posture, wound up every session so it also became clear that postures or asanas were only part of the remedy. Meditation and yoga practise from the very beginning fired my interest in searching for an inner consciousness. This is an easily misunderstood word and means many different things to many different people. Some will associate it with awareness, or mindfulness