POWERPOINT PRESENTATION FOR CREATING WELLNESS hw420

1. Mental Fitness HW 420-03 Sherri Eldreth Kaplan University

3. Benefits of Mental Fitness – Emotionally

4. Benefits of Mental Fitness – Physically

5. Research Demonstrating importance of Mental Fitness

6. How to Improve mental Fitness

8. Biological limit to physical fitness, but the mind has unlimited potential for development

10. Positive emotions: love Joy happiness

11. Enhanced Ability to cope during difficult times

12. Think Clearermany benefits to reducing stress, anxiety, negative emotions and depression again using relaxation techniques (Dacher, 2006)

15. 2 groups, one that made life style changes and a group that made no changes.

16. study was to evaluate how well the heart pumped blood between the groups.

17. Within 3 weeks they found there was an improvement with the patients that were on the lifestyle program, and those who where not on the program were getting worse.

18. . “A year later They found that “the group of patients who were on the lifestyle program reduced their blood cholesterol levels by almost 40%, 90% had a reduction in chest pain and improvement in blood flow to their heart . (Dacher, 2006)

20. Two groups were studied: those who suffered from the “job strain” and those who did not.

21. Those who suffered from the job also suffered from “helplessness, powerlessness, and associated mental stress,” while the others “saw it as a challenge and could summon the inner resources to deal with the workload”

22. Those who had the healthy and developed inner life were able to complement the outer, worldly treatments(Dacher, 2006, p. 18)

24. “ there were fewer deaths in the prayer group, they were less likely to require endotracheal intubation and ventilator support; they required fewer potent drugs, including diuretics and antibiotics; they experienced a lower incidence of pulmonary edema; and they required cardiopulmonary resuscitation less often”

25. two groups one group being controlled and a group that received intercessory prayer.

29. Loving Kindness Continued Use the love within yourself towards others. Visualize a loved one who is suffering. Breathe in that loved one’s sufferings. Allow it to flow into your heart and let it dissolve there. The next breath you breathe out will pour out the health, happiness, and wholeness to that loved one. Breathing in their sufferings, dissolving them, and breathing out happiness, love, and joy for your loved one. Repeat the breathing in suffering and breathing out love and joy, but this time with a group of strangers. After that, embrace all living things, yes that means even your enemies and do the same thing for them. Breathing in their suffering and giving them back happiness and love.

31. Many studies have been conducted proving the benefits of working toward and maintaining mental fitness.

34. Dacher, E. (2006). Integral health: The path to human flourishing. Laguna Beach, CA: Basic Health Publications, Inc

35. Schlitz, M., Amorok, T. and Micozzi, M.S. (2005) Consciousness & Healing: Integral Approaches to Mind-Body Medicine. MI: Elsevier Churchill Livingston Publications