HEALTH-1240 THEORY/PRACTICE of MEDITATION

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Taber T. Fellows
HLTH-1240
Prof: Julie Pugmire
Mediations class
My Class Reflections of spring 2015
While approaching this class with an academic achievement point of view,
along with a great personal wiliness to learn the practices of meditations and trying
to find a deeper self-awareness I have learned several different ways to meditate
and the reasons or meaning behind each meditating style or technique.
She (Julie Pugmire) started teaching the SLCC HLTH-1240 Meditating class
off with a lying down flat on the back Corpus Pose and the lotus sitting styles
as I recall. Prof: Julie P. had us lie on the ground using the style thats name is
corpus pose like the lying dead, but the difference is, we are not dead. At first I
liked and needed to use the (Corpus pose) lie down because of the injurers Ive of
all my lower extremities (pelvis & hips, legs etc) sustained.
I had a since urgency prior to this semester staring, anticipating the class and
learning about everything about meditating I felt would do me a great good in
myself, and it has too. I myself have felt a powerful growth happen within me over
these last 18 weeks (the entire 2015 spring semester). This growth that Ive seen is

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a deeper understanding of the things Im learning about, and other stuff I thought I
already or previously knew.
This deeper knowing of things, this new (enlightenment) of multiple topics
has deepen my knowledge base. Im grateful for my lives lessons and for all of my
adversities; they have taught me the important meanings of lifes difficult moments
and how to better respond to them using a positive non conferential motion
between all sides of the equations.
Meditating has provided me with these new profound enlightenments and
growth. I give credit to having a good teacher who knows how to verbally express
the importance of each technique and the real meaning behind them. Learning of
the secret garden, self motivation, inner peace, and guided meditations are so
helpful to reach this deeper understanding of self and others and things that happen
to us while living life.
Week two: when we were taught breathing and its propose and benefit
during meditation, what is Pranayama what is Yogic Breathing or Pranayama?
Prana refers to the universal life force and ayama means to regulate or lengthen.
Prana is the vital energy needed by our physical and subtle layers, without which
the body would perish. It is what keeps us alive. Pranayama is the control of prana
through the breath. These techniques rely on breathing through the nostrils.

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Week three finding your seat, this was a treat gentle stretches for seated
meditation. Then we moved onto using guided meditations both audio and visual
guided meditations during week Four, Five and six. Then week Seven came and we
were taught LovingKindnessMetta meditations, and wow what a powerful
deep personal experience one gets when sending out kindness to self and to others
your days go smoothly we dealing with others throughout the day, each day you
practice this style of meditating. For the rest of week Eight we continued to
practice lovingKindness/Metta meditations.
During week when we returned back to school from spring break we learned
about Spiritual Physiology and anatomy. Week Eleven we went over another
technique that I truly enjoy and felt the strongest change Chakra Meditation The
Root Chakra, the Splenic Chakra, The Solar Plexus Chakra, The Heart Chakra, The
Throat Chakra, The Third Eye Chakra, and the Crown Chakra. When we release or
open and help the natural energy flow from the base to the top of our Crown we are
able to receive the universal energy and feel completely at one with self and the
life force that lives.
Standing and Walking Meditation are yet again another powerful form or
style of meditating that for over thousands of years people have and continue to
use the benefits of using the walking meditation style to help reduce the physical
strains of walking itself.