Unit 7

Wow, just about done with class.  I think I am going to miss these audio exercises that we are doing.  I enjoyed this one very much, I would get a little startled when the female voice would chime in after many minutes of listening to the beach environment.  Maybe my volume was a little too high or maybe I was a little tired.  The person I saw was actually all four of my grandparents.  It was like a revolving door as I was getting their long life wisdom.  Each of them are unique in their own way but yet they are so similar.  There wisdom put a lot of perspective on everything that I have learned in this class because their wisdom is coming from many years of living and also from a time that is pretty different than the world of today.  My grandparents seem to have a certain patience about them that I guess can only come from knowing that there is not  a whole lot of time left.  I don´t think enough of our elders get the respect that they deserve or are given the chance to let people know who they really are. 

     I really like the saying that ''one cannot lead another where one has not gone himself''.  I work at this hotel where people come for 14 days to complete a fast or detox their body.  I get to spend a lot of time with the group, having a few lectures and lead them on exercises and I really get to show them a lot of stuff that they don´t know just because where I am coming from and what I have done in my life that they have not had the opportunity to do.   I tell every group that I practice what I preach, I preach what I practice and I never have you do anything that I have not done myself.   It´s not hard for people to see through bullshit.  I have had a lot of different leaders in my life and some were good and others were a joke.  There is nothing wrong with not knowing something but don´t try to pretend that you do know it and then try to sell it to people.  It´s not fair to them and it makes you look like a jerk. 

     I totally have an obligation to my clients with these health disciplines.  I would say the hotel or I guess you could call it a wellness center is a pretty unique place because you get to spend two weeks with a group of people who are trying to improve the quality of their life.  Many people come there and their first and only concern is to lose some weight but as program goes on they start to see these other styles of health and how important they are to their overall health.