Communication Lesson 1

Homework:

Everyone uses self talk. For the next few days, make a note of at least one time each day when you took control of your self talk. Please keep a record of this daily in your WordPress blog and email me the links.

I wrote these on a notebook paper the past few days, I hope thats ok.

30 March: 1 pm, called myself a loser for eating junk food then realized that I wasnt a loser for that, everyone at some point eats junk food I just need to learn to control my bad habits.

30 March: 9pm, called myself a stupid idiot for eating junk food so late at night then realized I didnt even eat dinner, I had taken a nap and was hungry for a valid reason. I think thats a valid reason lol.

31 March: 12pm was mad about eating late last night but I did catch myself from calling myself a name so I decided to eat healthy for lunch.

1 April: 1300, went to the gym and when I felt really bad that I couldnt run as long as I wanted to but I didnt call myself a name or anything, I just realized I was glad I didnt push myself to far on the treadmill because if I had I’d be sporting another knee injury. So I’m happy I took it slow and am gonna build up from the beginning.

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Meditation Lesson 1

Meditation 1

Thoughts: praying for God to give me strength to do well during my workout and to not let the horrible thoughts of my bf cheating get to me.

When meditated: 12:45 went to work out right after

What position: sitting

Eyes open or closed: closed

Anything noticed: time went by quickly

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Personal Lesson 3

Two people I admire…that’s a hard one. It really is because to me the world has gone down the drain and there aren’t many people who show they are worth anything anymore. Well, I’ll stick with the two who I’ve looked up to my entire life. Steve Irwin, I don’t like the jokes about him, he really was someone I admired and respected and it hurt when he died. No, I can’t see myself being as great as he was. No I’m not afraid of having his greatness within me, not at all cause I know its not there. I wouldn’t be able to do what he did, weeks before he died he had actually just recovered from a broken neck and back from some other accident, and then he goes and still does this stuff and died doing what he loved. If I was in his position I could see myself laying in bed acting like the entire world was over for me and milk it for all its worth. At least when I was younger I probably would have been like that, now, I really don’t know and to be honest, I don’t want to find out the hard way. I’d rather not find out at all.

The other person that I admire, and this is a difficult one, would be my mom. She’s put up with all my bs and teenage bad kid person stuff when I was growing up and then she let me join the Air Force and sends me money when I need it and helps me with everything and expects nothing in return. I feel bad I didn’t even get her a bday gift this week because I have no money, I feel bad about that. If I was as nice as her, I wouldn’t be as angry all the time, or maybe I would. That’s hard too because she has her moments like anyone else. She’s really bad about holding in her stress but she does that so I wont worry. And when my Grandma died 2 years ago the day before my moms bday, I think she showed how strong she was for everyone. Even me, because my grandma is something that is very hard to talk about with anyone. I finally can mention her, but I still havnt even been to her grave. She’s buried with my grandpa at a national cemetery cause he was in the Army, was in the Korean war and they are buried together, I’ve been there to his grave, just when she died, I never went. I couldn’t even see her at the viewing. I remember I had to go to the bathroom and I was waiting outside the viewing room, but in order to get to the bathroom I had to pass the room and I glanced in and I couldn’t go in there. My mom sat with me, she had to go put something in the casket, I had bought grandma a small pillow with Eeor on it and it said, I thought of you today and smiled, I bought it for her when I was in Germany and they put it with her. But my mom was strong for both of us. I feel stupid cause I don’t wanna make her be in the position, I’d rather be the one to take care of her cause she moved my grandma in the house and helped her after grandpa died. Sorry I don’t think I answered the questions for this. I actually have a book that’s Winnie the poo my grandma loved EEor and I have this book waiting to put on her grave. I don’t know if that will happen but my mom is another person I admire.

If I had any of the traits I’ve been talking about I would say that yes, I’d need to lose my excuses.

Years ago I would say I loved the new Obi-Wan because Ewan McGregor is hot lol. But I admire Luke, but not for the fact he was the awesome one in the original movies, but because he faced the one thing that was probably his fear at the moment, swallowed his pride and did the right thing not only to save his father but helped his sister too. ROTJ is my favorite and Luke shows incredible strength especially after what happened in previous movies, I think it shows no matter what it is, you can face your fears, learn new truths, and still come out better then what you were. I think Luke put it all on his own shoulders in the last movie and he did it for his sister and for his friends, and his father. Not many people these days would even care anymore. And that’s sad to me. But Luke is my favorite Jedi.

I’m sorry this was so long I hope I wont interrupt your work lol. Sorry!

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Personal Lesson 2

Hobbies- I liked to write as a kid. I like to write still. If money were not object and time…I’d be looking for a nice ranch in Texas for my bf and me. We are serious about each other.

Career- I wanted to be an astronaut. I would still want to be an astronaut.

Education- I would learn more about math and history. I’d like to focus on my emotions more, I learned in the past few days that maybe I don’t trust my bf as much I as I do when he’s home. I don’t know what that is, I mean I trust him but I told him on the phone yesterday, and he’s deploying. I told him on the phone, I’m worried that he’ll find someone better, he kind of laughed and said I’ll be better once he’s back home. Well, he just left like 2 days ago and is going to be gone for 8 months. I really need to focus on getting my emotions and trusting that he is the honorable man that he’s proven to be.

Personality- I like writing, currently am working a book. I’m good at history. I just know that I can do things but maybe deep down I choose not to do them, I don’t know why that is. I know I can run 3 miles, I’ve done it tons of times, yet I cant make myself go out and workout. I am sick at this moment but if I wasn’t, I don’t know how to get my head back in that positive state again to go do what needs to be done. Diabetes runs in my family, if I don’t start losing weight and taking care of myself I will end up with it and I don’t want that. But yet I still don’t change anything.

Strengths

  1. writing
  2. history
  3. building and painting things
  4. computers
  5. good at recognizing my failures
  6. shooting my guns, really good shot actually
  7. recently been good at cleaning lets hope I can keep it up
  8. good at taking care of my family and checking up on my bf’s family
  9. taking care of my bfs kitties while he’s away and my dog

10. good at taking care of my bf..loving him with my whole heart

My strengths say that I care a lot about others and not so much myself obviously I have a few personal things I need to work on. I was thinking that my future in the Jedi community could be one of advice to others. I like counseling others and trying to help them work through things.  And since I’ve had certain things happen to me in the past it could be used as a strength to help others who are going through the same thing. Just an idea. I still have a lot to learn.

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Leadership Exercise

1. What would your life be like now had you not made the decisions that you did? I probably would not be as close to my friend as I am now. He was a friend at my training and we went on to different bases but he would always ask me for advice about his potential girlfriends. Its a funny situation, you have to wonder how that could be leadership. Well, I think it is cause he’s always asking for advice now and telling me that I’m a great friend and he can always count on me.

2. How did you feel as a leader? I dont think it was much of me feeling as a leader as it was for me to be glad to help a friend. Its nice to know he considers me someone that he can count on. I’ve always wanted to be that type of friend to people. Someone they trusted and relied on.

3. How can you apply what you learned from that moment to future potential leadership moments that may

arise? I dont know if I can give the excat same advice as I did with my friend in other situations but I know I can take a step back and look in the issue and give my thought on what the right thing would be on how to handle it. I understand this might not work with every issue but instead of acting and asking questions later this might help show people that to understand the problem might be a better help then wondering why it went wrong later.

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Creed Exercise

What are your top 3 beliefs? Why? How did you come to those realizations? What was a situation where this

belief was exemplified? My first belief would be that Family is important. Some people dont even have family and that makes me cherrish the fact that I do have a family. You only get on mom and dad. I’m the kid that only has a mom and that means only one grandma and grandpa. When my grandpa died it was hard on the family and I still remember his last words to me. So I know family only comes once and to cherrish them.

My second belief would be that I know my heart lies in Astronomy and that becoming an Astronaut is the correct path for me to follow. There are some things people just know by feelings and I know that this is it. My mom always tells me when I was a baby I was always looking at the sky. It was just ment to be.

My third belief is that the Jedi path for me is the right one. In the same instance as my second belief its just a feeling that you know its right for you. You cant explain it, you cant see it, but you can you feel it. I can feel something around me, guiding me. I know this is the right journey I need to make in my life.

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Spirituality Exercise

1. Where have your spiritual beliefs originated? For instance, were you raised with a religion, or were

religious and spiritual topics never addressed in your house? I was rasied with the christian religion, non denomational, cant spell that lol. Ever since I was a little kid I was going to a certain church.

2. How do you know when you are doing the right thing vs. the wrong thing? Do you base this on external

laws (like the 10 commandments, or the laws of your country)? Do you listen to your conscience, even

though it may go against the standard ‘rules’ of society? I guess I base my actions on how I was raised. I was raised to believe this was wrong, this was right. And tv has a big influence as well in this. I was the kid that loved Ninja Turtles and saw them saving people. Socity has a big influence on you when your a young kid learning the do’s and dont’s of the world.

3. What are your beliefs about death? Do you believe we have one lifetime or more in physical

form? What do you believe happens when you die? Where did these beliefs come from? I cant really say that I’ve thought about this a whole lot in my life. These things kind of get me to feel a little weird. The thought of not thinking again or breathing just kind of creeps me out. I think we do have one lifetime. Its ours to decide how we want to spend it. After taking a good long time to think about this, I do believe we all in spirit, not body, go somewhere after we pass. Weather thats Heaven or Hell or anywhere else its hard to say. I was raised to believe we go to Heaven if we follow and accept Christ as our Saviour. For me, I think maybe what can be considered Heaven by one person might be completely different for another. I think in spirit we go somewhere to see our loved ones or to wait for them.  But to where I dont know.

4. Do you believe in God of some kind? If so, what are the primary characteristics of this God? If not, why

do you believe this? I think there is a higher being out there that is watching over us and if you wish to call him/her God then thats cool. I think in a way its God but as I learn more about the Jedi path and follow I’m more inclined to call it the Force. Why cant I call God the Force? The Force is what we learn from, want to be apart of. God teaches us through the bible and we pray to him to be apart of him. I dont see whats wrong with believing in that. However, I’m still learning a lot of new things each day from my studies, that might change after a while. We’ll just have to wait and see.

5. What do you consider spiritual practices? Which do you practice (if any)? I think praying would be a spiritual practice along with studying the Bible. Now as far as meditation goes I’m in the middle on that one because meditation could be used to gain relaxation and a calmer mind, as well as to connect to the force which in some cases people believe to be God. It can be used in multiple ways. I think as I learn more about meditation and get the hang of it I’ll be doing that more to connect to the Force and find my inner peace.

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