For this assignment I am to choose two practices that I have determined to be beneficial and how I will implement these practices into my life to foster mental fitness. Unfortunately, I do not subscribe to Dr. Dacher's ideas about "mental fitness". I took this course because of the title "The Psychological and Spiritual aspects of Healing" and wanted to apply it to the work I do with sexual assault victims. Unfortunately this course was not about healing at all, but more about a single man's theroy about mental training somehow bringing a person wholeness and happiness. We never really got to the healing process. You can not heal a body, mind or spirit by training your mind to think positive loving thoughts. The idea that anyone would go out into the health and wellness world and tell clients that Dr. Dacher's ideas will heal them makes me very sad because they won't. Maybe I just come from a whole different perspective because of my many years of caring for trauma (mental, physical and spiritial) patients but I find Dr. Dacher's book full of superficial concepts and I don't plan to apply anything that Dr. Dacher preachs to my life or to my work. Blessings.
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